Overview

• The City Hall reporter, Katie Honan, says Winnie Greco handed her an opened potato chip bag containing a red envelope with at least one $100 bill and several $20 bills after a Harlem campaign event.
• Honan attempted to return the money, alerted her editors, and The City notified the New York City Department of Investigation; Brooklyn federal prosecutors were contacted and an investigator retrieved the bag and envelope.
• Eric Adams’ reelection campaign suspended Greco from volunteer activities and said the mayor had no prior knowledge of the incident.
• Greco apologized and called the handoff a mistake, while her attorney described the cash as a cultural gesture of friendship rather than a payoff.
• Greco is a longtime Adams ally who resigned from City Hall in 2024 after FBI searches of her properties in an unrelated probe, and she has not been charged.