Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the formidable consigliere of Mayor Eric Adams, will give up Thursday to face accusations she helped two businessmen who gave her DJ son a $100,000 mortgage to purchase a Porsche, The Submit has discovered.
The accusations – first reported within the New York Occasions – kind the spine of bribery fees anticipated to be leveled in opposition to Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn Martin II and a minimum of one of many businessmen, hotelier Mayank Dwivedi, sources confirmed to The Submit.
Lewis-Martin has been ordered to give up to authorities Thursday afternoon, sources conversant in the case mentioned.
“They’re going to lean on her like no tomorrow,” one supply mentioned, theorizing that the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace would attempt to get Lewis-Martin to flip on Adams, presumably in relation to the case in opposition to him introduced by federal prosecutors.
The anticipated indictment in opposition to Lewis-Martin led to her sudden resignation as Adams’ senior adviser over the weekend.
Sources instructed The Submit that Manhattan prosecutors imagine Lewis-Martin, in her Metropolis Corridor function, allegedly expedited a hold-up with a building challenge run by the 2 businessmen.
The businessmen allegedly had given her son, a DJ, a six-figure mortgage to purchase a Porsche earlier than Ingrid-Martin is claimed to have returned the favor, the sources mentioned.
Lewis-Martin’s lawyer Arthur Aidala declined to remark.
Representatives with DA Alvin Bragg’s workplace and town Division of Investigation, which carried out the probe, declined to remark.
Dwivedi’s lawyer Teny R. Geragos didn’t return a name for remark. Glenn Martin II couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.
— Further reporting by Ben Kochman
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