NYC Mayor Eric Adams' ex-aide handed a reporter a potato chip bag stuffed with cash

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ ex-aide handed a reporter a potato chip bag stuffed with cash

BY DAVE COLLINS
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM EDT

A longtime adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who resigned from his administration while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday following a campaign event, a gift her lawyer later insisted wasn’t an attempted bribe.

The local news site The City reported the episode hours after one of its reporters said Winnie Greco had pressed a bag of potato chips into her hands containing a red envelope with a $100 bill and several $20 bills.

The reporter, Katie Honan, had scrutinized Greco’s conduct in the past as a major fundraiser for Adams in the Chinese American community.

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“ This was not a bag of cash,” Brill wrote in an email. “In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude. And that’s all that was done here. Winnie‘s intention was born purely out of kindness.”

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(Pure kindness in a chip bag. Uh huh.)