Former New York mayor adviser gave reporter cash in chip bag at campaign event
Source: The Guardian
A former longtime adviser to the mayor of New York City who resigned while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday after a campaign event.
A lawyer for Winnie Greco, the former adviser, insisted the cash was not an attempted bribe.
The local news site The City reported the incident hours after one of its reporters said Greco had pressed a bag of potato chips into her hands containing a red envelope with a $100 bill and several $20 bills.
The reporter, Katie Honan, had scrutinized Grecos conduct in the past as a significant fundraiser for Adams in the Chinese American community.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/former-new-york-mayor-eric-adams-adviser-winnie-greco-gave-reporter-cash-in-chip-bag-at-campaign-event

yardwork
(67,750 posts)He's surrounded by crooks. He'd be in prison if Trump hadn't intervened to save him.
Cuomo running in this race gives cover to Adams and makes Democrats look bad. Cuomo needs to drop out.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,678 posts)PatSeg
(50,812 posts)What did she expect to buy with less than $200?
The next time Adams wanted a story with a particular slant they could pressure the journalist, threatening to expose the previous bribe.
I have no doubt that an accomplice filmed the journalist taking the bag of potato chips.
It's still pathetic and poorly done, though. Not clever. Just stupid and criminal.
PatSeg
(50,812 posts)Geez, if you want to be a criminal, you have do better than that. I wonder if someone directed her to offer a bribe or if she came up with the idea on her own. Or maybe she should have just gone to work for an honest politician.
yardwork
(67,750 posts)PatSeg
(50,812 posts)She probably has a lot of practice being a stupid crook.
Prairie Gates
(5,968 posts)It helps that Mamdani is actually good, but honestly, who could vote for any of the other cretins? Had Trump not been elected, Adams would literally be in the federal penitentiary along with most of his staff. It's shocking that he's even running, and the New York Times is blathering on about Mamdani?
wolfie001
(5,940 posts)That's all I'm gonna say.
PatSeg
(50,812 posts)I tend to hate crooked Democrats more. They make a lot of really good people look bad and it undermines everything we stand for.