NYC’s mayor says he stands by top aide at center of latest FBI raid on members of his inner circle

NEW YORK  — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday stood by a longtime adviser whose properties were raided by the FBI and shrugged off concerns about the mounting federal probes of people linked to his administration.

FBI agents searched two Bronx addresses Thursday owned by Winnie Greco, a former fundraiser for Adams who now serves as his director of Asian affairs. They also searched the New World Mall in Flushing, Queens, a popular Asian food court where several fundraisers were held for Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign.

Greco is at least the third Adams aide whose home has been targeted by federal agents. Agents have also seized the mayor’s cellphones and an iPad in a separate federal probe focused at least in part on whether his campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal campaign contributions from foreign sources.