Former top NYC Mayor Eric Adams adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin to be hit with additional charges, sources say

Josephine Stratman and Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News on Aug 20, 2025

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NEW YORK — Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former chief adviser to Mayor Eric Adams who’s under indictment on bribery accusations, is expected to be hit with more criminal charges Thursday, the Daily News has learned.

Arthur Aidala, Lewis-Martin’s attorney, confirmed she will appear in court Thursday to be arraigned on the additional charges.

“The District Attorney has refused to provide any details about the charges,” Aidala said. “Despite a lifetime of service as a law-abiding public servant, Ingrid is being forced to enter court with little information. What she does know is this: she has always served the City with integrity, and she will firmly plead not guilty to every charge.”

A source told The News the new charges against Lewis-Martin may be unrelated to her already existing bribery case, brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg’s office declined to comment Wednesday.

The new charges come months after Lewis-Martin was first charged in a bribery scheme involving two real estate investors accused of bribing her and her son in exchange for the top City Hall adviser securing official favors for them with the Department of Buildings.

The new charges also come as Lewis-Martin, who resigned from City Hall late last year, is playing an active role in his reelection effort, as first reported by The News in June. Running as an independent in November’s mayoral election, Adams already faces long odds as he faces continued political fallout from his own federal corruption indictment, which was dismissed by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as part of a controversial arrangement.

“Mayor Adams was not involved in this matter and has not been accused of or implicated in any wrongdoing,” Kayla Mamelak, a spoksewoman for the mayor, said in response to word of Lewis-Martin’s forthcoming additional charges.

Lewis-Martin resigned from her powerful post at City Hall just days before she was indicted. She has pleaded not guilty in the bribery scheme, as have her son and the two businessmen.

Lewis-Martin, a longtime close friend of the mayor who started worked for him in the mid-2000s when he was a state senator, was indicted in December for allegedly using her influence to expedite construction projects on behalf of two business associates, who in turn gave her professional DJ son, Glen Martin II, $100,000 for a Porsche and pledged to invest in his business ventures.

At a hearing in Lewis-Martin’s bribery case in March, Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Moore said a new grand jury had been convened to look at related matters. But Moore said he didn’t expect the grand jury would be “finished with anything” in potential related matters involving Lewis-Martin and her co-defendants for at least two months.

Lewis-Martin resigned from her powerful post at City Hall just days before she was indicted. She has pleaded not guilty in the bribery scheme, as have her son and the two businessmen.

In September, Lewis-Martin had her electronic devices seized by investigators with the DA’s office after landing at JFK Airport from a trip to Japan. Also on the trip were Department of Citywide Administrative Services Deputy Commissioner Jesse Hamilton, a top real estate official for the city, and Diana Boutross, a friend to Lewis-Martin who leads much of the city’s commercial leasing as an executive at Cushman & Wakefield, a firm contracted by the city to spearhead the program. Both of their phones were seized by investigators, too.

Separate from the bribery scheme ensnaring Lewis-Martin’s son, investigators from Bragg’s office have also for months been looking into her and other top Adams aides, including Hamilton, in connection with the city government’s commercial leasing programs.

Hamilton, who oversees the commercial leasing program in his role at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, has faced scrutiny for his work at the agency, including for pushing for Boutross to be the lead executive on Cushman & Wakefield’s contract with his agency.

In October, the City Council convened a hearing to examine Hamilton’s move to go back on a lease for the city’s Department of Aging and instead give it to 14 Wall Street, a property owned by Alexander Rovt, a billionaire who has donated heavily to Adams. Hamilton skipped the hearing.