Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former top aide to former New York Mayor Eric Adams, is at the center of a sprawling bribery case.

In court papers filed on Tuesday, prosecutors allege the once second-most powerful official in city government took luxury perks from real estate developers, while pushing their projects through the system.

According to ABC, Lewis-Martin is alleged to have accepted 2-carat diamond earrings worth about 3,000 dollars from developers Raizada Vaid and Mayank Dwivedi after meeting them in 2022. 

In return, prosecutors say she leaned on city regulators to fast-track approvals for their construction plans even when inspectors flagged safety concerns. In one instance, she allegedly urged the acting buildings commissioner to greenlight a Manhattan hotel renovation owned by Vaid despite those warnings.

Lewis-Martin resigned in late 2024, shortly before she and her son, Glenn D. Martin II, a DJ who performs as “DJ Suave Luciano,” were charged with taking over 100,000 dollars in bribes from the pair. 

All four have pleaded not guilty. The latest filing also describes texts where Lewis-Martin allegedly told her son that Vaid would have him “completely covered” and that his fashion line was “100 percent,” while prosecutors say Vaid also promised to help him open a Chick-fil-A franchise.

This is just one of several bribery schemes Lewis-Martin is accused of steering. Earlier charges claim she traded political favors, from blocking a proposed bike lane to pushing shelter contracts in the direction of a preferred developer, for cash and home upgrades. 

A speaking role on the TV series “Godfather of Harlem” was also leveraged in her favor acxcoprding to court documents. 

Her lawyer, Arthur Aidala, has argued she was simply helping constituents navigate city bureaucracy and blasted prosecutors’ 170-page filing as “desperate.”

“We look forward to submitting our robust reply to the prosecutor’s desperate 170 page answer to our motion to dismiss,” Aidala said. “It is the longest answer to a motion we have ever seen and that speaks volumes about their insecurity in their case.”