NEW YORK (AP) — A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams was hit Thursday with a second wave of bribery charges, with prosecutors alleging she exchanged political favors for cash, home renovations and a speaking role on a TV show.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’ closest confidant and former chief of staff, was among seven people indicted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a sweeping expansion of a corruption probe that has dogged the mayor’s administration for two years.

“If you were willing to pay, Ms. Lewis-Martin was open for business,” prosecutor Guy Tardanico said in court.

Adams himself has not been charged and isn’t a target, prosecutors said, but the case thrusts corruption allegations back into focus as the Democrat tries to regain voters’ trust ahead of a

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