Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams’ just lately resigned chief advisor, and her grownup son surrendered at Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s workplace Thursday morning forward of their anticipated arraignment on bribery costs.
Lewis-Martin and her son, Glenn Martin II, arrived at Bragg’s workplace in downtown Manhattan round 7:30 a.m.
Lewis-Martin smiled and exchanged some fast phrases with officers assigned to the DA’s workplace whereas her son stayed quiet earlier than they each walked inside. They’re anticipated to be arraigned Thursday afternoon.
Lewis-Martin and her son, Glenn Martin II (pictured), arrived at Bragg’s workplace in downtown Manhattan round 7:30 a.m.. (Barry Williams/ New York Day by day Information)
They’ll face costs alleging two businessmen gave Lewis-Martin’s son, Glenn Martin II, a $100,000 mortgage to purchase a Porsche after Lewis-Martin helped them with a problem with town’s Division of Buildings that was holding up one among their resort building initiatives, the New York Instances reported Wednesday.
Her departure was the most recent in a string of high-profile resignations from Metropolis Corridor as Adams stays below federal indictment on allegations that he solicited bribes, principally from Turkish authorities operatives, in trade for political favors. Beforehand, NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, Colleges Chancellor David Banks and Deputy Mayor for Public Security Phil Banks all resigned after being ensnared in separate probes by federal investigators.
Ingrid Martin-Lewis arrives on the Manhattan DA’s workplace Thursday. (Barry Williams/ New York Day by day Information)
Adams has pleaded not responsible, whereas Lewis-Martin informed reporters Monday — earlier than the specifics of the fees in opposition to her have been recognized — that she will probably be “falsely accused of something.”
Investigators with the DA’s workplace seized Lewis-Martin’s telephone and searched her Brooklyn house proper after she returned to JFK Airport from a visit to Japan in September. Federal brokers additionally served her a subpoena to offer grand jury testimony and paperwork within the federal probe that resulted within the mayor’s indictment.
The DA’s workplace has declined to touch upon particulars of the investigation.
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Mayor Eric Adams and Ingrid Lewis-Martin throughout a press convention at Metropolis Corridor on Could 28. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Day by day Information)
Additionally in September, DA investigators seized gadgets from others who accompanied Lewis-Martin on her Japan journey, together with Jesse Hamilton, a former state senator who now manages the Adams administration’s huge actual property portfolio, and Diana Boutross, a prime dealer on the Cushman & Wakefield actual property agency.
The Boutross and Hamilton seizures are believed to be a part of an investigation wanting into doable corruption within the metropolis authorities’s industrial actual leasing sector. Nobody has been publicly accused of wrongdoing in reference to that probe so far.
