Adams cronies charged in wide-ranging real estate schemes

Former top Adams aide Ingrid Lewis-Martin and Jesse Hamilton, who oversees the city’s office leases, face charges for steering city contracts to specific real estate developers and helping fast-track their projects in exchange for personal home renovations and other perks. Four new indictments accuse Lewis-Martin of accepting $75,000 in bribes between March 2022 and November 2024, as part of a wide-ranging scheme involving eight co-defendants, including Hamilton, who is the deputy commissioner of real estate services at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. Hamilton is named as a defendant in one of the four indictments. Most of the bribe money, $50,000, […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.