Ramon Rivera, 51, was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with one count of murder in the first degree, three counts of murder in the second degree and burglary in the third degree. He appeared in an orange Department of Correction jumpsuit, with bushy hair and a black and gray beard. A Spanish translator interpreted the proceedings for him as he sat silently.
Ramon Rivera, 51, shattered a window at an Ace Hardware store on East 18th Street and First Avenue near StuyTown and walked out with a stolen backpack full of kitchen knives and construction gloves on Nov. 18, prosecutors said in court before the accused entered an insanity plea.
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams’ recently resigned chief adviser, used her influence for years to expedite construction projects on behalf of two real estate moguls who in exchange gave her son $100,000 for a Porsche and pledged to invest in his business ventures, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
The New York City mayor’s former chief adviser, her son and two real estate investors were indicted on Thursday on bribery and conspiracy charges, a case that comes as the mayor himself fights a separate corruption case and a series of criminal investigations roils City Hall.
Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday charged Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former chief adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, in a bribery conspiracy in which they said two businessmen gave her and her son $100,000 in cash that her son used to buy a Porsche and other luxury goods in exchange for her intervention with city regulators.
