Reporter says former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams gave her a chip bag filled with cash

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. Greco’s attorney, Steven Brill, told The Associated Press that the situation was being “blown out of proportion." “This was not a bag of cash,” Brill wrote in an email. “In the Chine