In March 2021, a 33-year-old tech worker from Flushing, Queens, joined Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign as a volunteer, working regularly with an effusive and understatedly powerful member of Adams’s inner circle named Winnie Greco. Shortly after Adams got to City Hall, Greco, by then on the city payroll as the mayor’s $100,000-a-year director of Asian […]
Tom Robbins
Tom was a senior investigative reporter for THE CITY, where he covers money in politics.
Posted inEric Adams
Adams Campaign Repeatedly Ignored Regulators’ Demands to Identify Supporters Behind $300,000 in Contributions
The Campaign Finance Board flagged 600 donations suspected of having been gathered by undisclosed bundlers in potential violation of campaign finance rules. Several of the contributions figure in a recent indictment by the Manhattan DA.
Posted inAlvin Bragg, Eric Adams
Builder Facing Indictment Was a Major Adams Donor
Developer Mark Caller, who is expected to face charges of providing a bargain-rate apartment to the mayor’s former buildings commissioner, raised nearly $50,000 for the Adams campaign.
Posted inEric Adams
New Questions Arise Over Adams Donors: One Says She Was Reimbursed, Others Say They Never Gave
A month after Adams supporters were indicted over illegal donations, a CITY investigation has turned up other instances of questionable contributions that his campaign submitted for public matching funds.
Posted inLandlords
NYC Awards $191 Million Tax Break to Landlord With 3,000 Housing Code Violations
The Bistricer family will receive a 40-year tax exemption in exchange for cleaning up the mess it has long been blamed for at Brooklyn’s beleaguered Flatbush Gardens.
Posted inManhattan DA's Office
Former Prosecutor Grilled at Construction Accident Trial Over Evidence Defense Should Have Received
During intense questioning by a former colleague, the one-time head of the Manhattan DA’s construction unit said she had “no recollection” of a dismissed Buildings Department summons.
Posted inCriminal Justice
A Long Trial Puts a Focus on Who’s to Blame for a Disastrous Construction Accident
In a rare occurrence, two supervisors face criminal charges over injuries that disabled two workers at an East Harlem building site.
Posted inConstruction
The Mob Is Making a Comeback in Construction as Demand for New Housing Grows in NYC
A string of new prosecutions highlight how organized crime is targeting the nonunion builders of tens of millions of dollars in projects.
Posted inCrime, New Jersey
On the NY-NJ Waterfront, the Legacy of the Mob Endures
With a push from Governor Phil Murphy, the agency that policed New York Harbor’s docks is dying. A history of union corruption, exorbitant salaries, and a lack of diversity remains.
Posted inFrank Carone
After Hiring Frank Carone, a Reviled Brooklyn Landlord Won a Multimillion-Dollar Windfall from the City
Yosef Zvieli faced foreclosure after running a residence for Brooklyn College students into the ground. Then he retained the political kingpin who has since become New York’s power broker of the moment.