Ingrid Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn Martin II, and seven others were charged on Aug. 21 by the Manhattan DA and the city Department of Investigation with multiple corruption offenses. Prosecutors allege Lewis-Martin used her senior City Hall role between 2022 and 2024 to steer contracts to preferred vendors, kill a street safety project, and override city officials' expertise in exchange for benefits including cash, meals, and the promise of a TV acting role. The indictments include fourth-degree conspiracy and second-degree charges and are separate from an earlier bribery indictment alleging $100,000 in bribes to buy a Porsche. Martin II faces conspiracy and bribe-receiving counts, and a city deputy commissioner plus developers and studio operators face conspiracy charges.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Thursday hit Mayor Eric Adams' former chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin with a slew of fresh corruption charges, accusing her and her son of accepting $75,000 worth of benefits in exchange for official favors. Bragg's office along with the city Department of Investigation charged Lewis-Martin, her son Glenn Martin II, otherwise known as Suave or Suave Luciano, and seven others in four separate indictments on Aug. 21. Lewis-Martin surrendered early Thursday morning to the Manhattan DA's office at One Hogan Place.
Broadly, Lewis-Martin is accused of using her senior City Hall position between 2022 and 2024 to grease the wheels of city government such as steering city contracts to preferred vendors and killing a street safety project, in exchange for benefits including cash, the promise of a TV acting role, and thousands of dollars in meals. She is also accused of overriding the expertise of city officials to benefit her alleged co-conspirators.
The charges against Lewis-Martin include four counts of fourth-degree conspiracy and four counts of second-degree. The new charges are not connected to Lewis-Martin's already existing bribery and conspiracy indictment that was filed late last year, in which she is accused of allegedly accepting $100,000 in bribes from a pair of Manhattan businessmen to buy a Porsche for her son. Martin II is charged with two counts of conspiracy in the fourth degree and two counts of bribe receiving in the second degree City Deputy Commissioner for Real Estate Services Jesse Hamilton is facing one count of conspiracy in the fourth degree and the other six defendants including developer Tian Ji Li and Gina and Tony Argento, the siblings who run Broadway Stages studio in Brooklyn are charged with one count of conspiracy in t
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