Ingrid Lewis-Martin, chief advisor to Mayor Adams till her resignation Sunday, could also be charged with intervening in a metropolis Division of Buildings course of in alternate for securing DJ work for her son, Lewis-Martin’s lawyer stated Tuesday.
Talking on the radio present Sid & Associates within the Morning, Arthur Aidala, stated prosecutors with the Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace might allege that Lewis-Martin carried out the favor anticipating “that if she helped them here, somewhere down the road, it was gonna give a benefit to her son.”
The DA’s workplace is anticipated to carry an indictment in opposition to Lewis-Martin later this week.
“I think what they’re gonna say is that Ingrid was asked to make a phone call to the DOB,” Aidala informed host Sid Rosenberg.
“She picked up the phone, called a deputy commissioner of the DOB and said, could you go and reinspect this thing, because they’re saying they did it right, you’re saying they did it wrong,” he stated, not naming the official or who requested she make the decision.
Six months after that decision, the identical folks employed Lewis-Martin’s son, Glenn Martin II, knowledgeable DJ, “to be a DJ or some job like that,” Aidala stated.
Martin II has performed a number of gigs at Grace Mansion as just lately as September and has an in depth relationship with Mayor Adams. Martin II refers back to the mayor as his “uncle” and has posted images and movies of himself showing with the mayor in varied settings, together with jetskiing within the East River, in line with a evaluation of his social media accounts.
Arthur Aidala speaks for his shopper, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, throughout a press convention Monday, Dec. 16, 2024 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams / New York Each day Information)
The New York Occasions reported that, along with Lewis-Martin’s son, prosecutors are trying into Mayank Dwivedi, a hotelier who operates a number of properties within the metropolis and the Hamptons, in addition to one in every of his enterprise associates. He couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.
The Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace has been presenting proof about Lewis-Martin to a grand jury and is anticipated to be near asking the panel to vote on whether or not to carry costs.
The lawyer in contrast Lewis-Martin’s actions to a council member serving to repair a pothole.
“If that’s the way we’re gonna start doing some things, or that’s how prosecutors are gonna prosecute people, then if you know a politician, then you better never ask for help,” Aidala stated.
The lawyer didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Wednesday.
Lewis-Martin denied to reporters throughout a press convention on Monday that she has damaged the regulation.
“I am here falsely accused of something; I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know that I was told that it’s something that’s illegal, and I have never done anything illegal in my capacity in government,” she stated at a press convention at Aidala’s Midtown workplace.
Mayor Eric Adams and his chief advisor, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, are pictured throughout a press convention at Metropolis Corridor on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Each day Information)
The DA’s workplace has declined to touch upon the grand jury investigation.
Lewis-Martin, 63, introduced her resignation on Sunday.
The Manhattan DA’s workplace has been probing into her since a minimum of September, when investigators raided her Brooklyn house and seized her cellphone at JFK. Feds with the Manhattan U.S. lawyer’s workplace additionally met Lewis-Martin on the airport and subpoenaed her to testify.
Aidala beforehand stated he believed the fees would relate to “improper gifts,” and that others can be indicted, as effectively.
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