Latest Raided NYC Mayor Staffer Also Has Foreign Biz Ties

The aide and fundraiser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who became the most recent target of a federal sweep on Thursday has long-standing financial relationships with a foreign capital.

The probe swirling around embattled mayor, which burst into public view last fall with a raid on a top campaign official’s residence, has so far centered on individuals linked to Turkey and potential that cash from Ankara had illicitly entered the mayor’s coffers. The New York Times reported that agents from the Justice Department’s Southern District carried out that earlier action, while the one this week was the handiwork of the Eastern District—which the paper noted has spent recent months rolling up influence operations linked to Beijing.

And the woman whose house agents raided, Special Advisor to the Mayor and Director of Asian Affairs Winnie Greco (born Zheng Qirong), has both influence as a longtime cash-gathering operative for Adams, and ties to China. In November, the New York Post reported that a company she controlled had received funding from the official propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party’s Beijing committee. The newspaper also revealed that two other organizations that received funding from government sources in China had identified her as a consultant, although Greco and City Hall argued that this was an error.

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