The raunchy DJ son of Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime ally Ingrid Lewis-Martin furthered his small-time profession by spinning his household’s highly effective connections — even earlier than his mother allegedly traded favors for bribes that scored him a Porsche.
Earlier than Glenn Martin II, 38, surrendered to authorities Thursday alongside his mom to face bribery costs in Manhattan courtroom, he was maybe finest generally known as DJ Suave Luciano, a singer whose music movies are rife with scantily-clad ladies.
However DJ Suave’s life was intertwined together with his force-of-nature mom’s profession, a lot so that they shared a joint checking account — which prosecutors on Thursday alleged they used to deposit $100,000 in bribes from two actual property builders.
In trade for the money and different favors — together with anticipated assist organising a Chick-fil-A franchise for Martin II — from the builders, Lewis-Martin allegedly helped them with development permits for his or her initiatives, in keeping with the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace.
Martin II put a few of the cash towards a $113,000 black 2023 Porsche Panamera, “one thing neither he nor Lewis-Martin might have funded with out the bribe cash,” the indictment in opposition to the mother-son duo alleges.
The acquisition and different goodies outlined in courtroom paperwork weren’t the one leg up Martin II purportedly acquired due to his mother.
The DJ is the son of Lewis-Martin and Glenn Martin, a former NYPD cop and good friend of Adams’ going again to their police academy days.
After Adams, who isn’t implicated within the indictment in opposition to Lewis-Martin and her son, grew to become mayor in 2022, DJ Suave Luciano usually appeared at official metropolis occasions.
When Adams dissed the drill rap style for supposedly fomenting violence, the mayor held a summit with hip-hop artists that Suave attended, in keeping with an Instagram submit by state Meeting candidate Hercules Reid.
DJ Suave Luciano has additionally carried out at Rise Up NYC concert events and different metropolis gigs, although The Publish discovered no funds to Martin II in public information.
Lewis-Martin launched her son throughout a Gracie Mansion reception celebrating Caribbean-American heritage in June by cracking a joke that the DJ was working the city-run occasion without cost.
“He at all times volunteers,” she stated. “They attempt to write us up within the papers, however he doesn’t take any cash. He’s a volunteer. Simply saying that.”
The longer term Suave Luciano displayed an early curiosity in a DJ profession, with PIX11 — the place the youthful Martin was a “Friday Forecaster” — reporting that he has spun information since he was 3.
Martin II studied psychology at Molloy College whereas on an athletic scholarship, and graduated in 2008, in keeping with PIX11.
His first single “First Place” provided a distinctly Caribbean vibe and lascivious lyrics — together with a New York Metropolis landmark-laden video that includes bevies of scantily-clad ladies gyrating round him.
One other music video for the tune “Sumo,” uploaded in July for the viewing pleasure of the musician’s about 80 YouTube subscribers, ups the ante on explicitness.
Barely dressed ladies shake their backsides as Suave sings, dances, grinds and poses in entrance of a Lamborghini.
DJ Suave Luciano’s profession featured gigs at Woodland, a Caribbean-fusion brunch spot alongside Flatbush Avenue that drew a largely black clientele and drew complaints from its principally white Park Slope neighbors about drunken patrons, fights and frequent NYPD visits.
The spot closed in 2020 after the State Liquor Authority yanked its license, discovering it fostered noise and dysfunction. Between the board’s determination and the Woodland’s cut-off date, a person was stabbed in a bloody bar brawl, Patch reported.
Martin II and Lewis-Martin pleaded not-guilty to the fees Thursday.
