Eric Adams

A Brooklyn businessman identified only as “Businessman-5” in an indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in connection with the illegal collection of campaign contributions, federal prosecutors said Monday. Erden Arkan, a wealthy construction magnate, has indicated that he wants to plead guilty, prosecutors said in a letter sent to the…

News 4’s Melissa Russo reports. 

News 4’s Jonathan Dienst with the details. 

The New York City mayor’s former chief adviser, her son and two real estate investors were indicted on Thursday in a bribery conspiracy, charges that come as the mayor himself faces a separate corruption case and a series of criminal investigations roils City Hall. Ingrid Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn D. Martin II and real estate investors Raizada Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi...

Mayor Eric Adams former chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, is expected to face bribery-related charges Thursday by the Manhattan District Attorney, sources familiar with the matter said. Lewis-Martin’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, said that although he is not familiar with the specific charges, investigators have raised questions about whether Martin in her capacity as senior advisor to Adams asked the NYC Department...

The New York City Campaign Finance Board, which oversees a key public campaign matching program, announced Monday that Mayor Eric Adams will not receive over $4 million in matching funds his campaign requested

Donald Trump says he would consider a possible pardon for Mayor Eric Adams amid an ongoing corruption investigation. This news comes as the mayor’s top adviser abruptly steps down. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports. 

Lewis-Martin’s decision to leave office comes as Adams faces federal corruption charges and several members of his administration have come under investigation.

Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams are urging a federal judge to dismiss the bribery charge brought against him last week.

Investigators seized Ingrid Lewis-Martin’s phones and searched her home in September, after Mayor Eric Adams’ indictment on bribery and conspiracy charges. 

A Manhattan grand jury has convened and is said to be hearing evidence about potential corruption by Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime senior adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who submitted her resignation from City Hall on Sunday. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the grand jury development hours after news broke of Lewis-Martin’s sudden departure as a longtime adviser to Adams....

A startling exit at City Hall was confirmed over the weekend as the chief adviser to Eric Adams ended a decades-long professional relationship with the mayor. Ingrid Lewis-Martin ended her tenure Sunday, a couple months after receiving federal subpoenas upon landing back in New York City from a vacation to Japan. Her departure was first reported by Politico. In September,…

The Mayor’s meeting with Tom Homan was met with criticism and apprehension from the public. News 4 New York’s Melissa Russo reports. 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar.” Adams met Thursday with Tom Homan after the mayor has expressed an enthusiasm to work with the incoming administration to pursue criminals in the city while Trump promises mass deportations of people living in the country illegally. Adams has recently warmed to the Trump administration....

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday declined to rule out out a future change in political allegiances in a pair of interviews.

Federal authorities have opened an investigation into Queens pastor Alfred Cockfield and a political action committee he started, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Moving to stabilize an administration roiled by investigations, resignations and his own indictment, New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday appointed sanitation chief Jessica Tisch as police commissioner. A city government stalwart and ex-NYPD official, she’ll be just the second woman in the high-profile, high-pressure post. The move comes at a critical time for the nation’s largest police department, shoring up its leadership...

News 4’s Melissa Russo with the latest. 

A Brooklyn monsignor whose church had been subpoenaed amid the Eric Adams corruption investigation has been relieved of many of his duties after allegedly mishandling $2 million in church funds and using a church credit card for personal expenses, the Diocese said in a statement Monday. Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, was stripped “of any pastoral…

NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.