{"id":115935,"date":"2026-01-29T02:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115935\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:47:16","slug":"adams-aide-lewis-martin-took-diamond-earrings-as-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115935\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams aide Lewis-Martin took diamond earrings as bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former advisor to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams Ingrid Lewis-Martin arrives at Manhattan criminal court on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in New York. AP Photo\/Olga Fedorova<\/p>\n<p>MANHATTAN \u2013 NEW FILINGS IN the bribery trial of former Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 right-hand woman Ingrid Lewis-Martin allege that she accepted gifts, including a pair of diamond earrings worth $3,000, from a pair of real-estate developers who she later allegedly helped receive permission for potentially unsafe building projects,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2026\/01\/27\/ingrid-lewis-martin-diamond-earrings-bribe-indictment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports The City<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The filings, submitted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday, detail Lewis-Martin\u2019s relationship with the developers of a Manhattan hotel project that featured a rooftop bar. Inspectors at the Department of Buildings had flagged both the bar and the hotel project over safety concerns, including missing fire egress and occupancy information. Lewis-Martin then allegedly leaned on the then-acting commissioner of the DOB to intervene in the project, granting permission over the objections of inspectors and the Manhattan Borough Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis-Martin\u2019s attorney, Arthur Aidala, in a statement dismissed the allegations, writing, \u201cWe look forward to submitting our robust reply to the prosecutor\u2019s desperate 170 page answer to our motion to dismiss. It is the longest answer to a motion we have ever seen and that speaks volumes about their insecurity in their case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd5hEdpXLwpeWAPMPmcmdn--vHz1InXjphFdhedt_prXKoVFQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ultima-reader-response.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<br \/>\n<a class=\"related-articles comment-link\" style=\"clear: both;padding-top:6px;color:#6cc4e8;\" href=\"#comments\" title=\"Leave a Comment\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/363937\/mta-bus-driver-honored-for-helping-deliver-baby-on-b37\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/christopher1-250x250.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bus operator Christopher Accettulli at the Jackie Gleason Depot describes how he assisted a customer who went into labor aboard his B37 bus on Friday, Jan 23. 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Photo: Yuki Iwamura\/AP\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAG Letitia James warns of price gouging ahead of blizzard<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJanuary 23 |<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrooklyn Eagle Staff\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former advisor to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams Ingrid Lewis-Martin arrives at Manhattan criminal court on Thursday, Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3015,38058,3302,14768,81,42928,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-115935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-arthur-aidala","tag-breaking","tag-courts-and-law","tag-eric-adams","tag-ingrid-lewis-martin","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}