Posted on 08/21/2025 12:09:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
We may have the funniest scandal of the year.
Winnie Greco, a “close advisor” to Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams, was “suspended from his re-election campaign on Wednesday after giving a journalist cash tucked inside a potato chip bag,” according to The New York Times.
It gets better.
The cash was allegedly tucked inside a red Chinese envelope and then hidden in an “opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips,” reports The City.
The reporter, Katie Honan, thought “it was an offer of a light snack,” and “told Greco more than once she could not accept the chips … Greco insisted that she keep them,” according to The City.
After leaving their meeting and discovering the cash, Honan reportedly texted Greco, “I can’t take this, when can I give it back to you?”
Greco did not respond, according to The City.
Greco’s not exactly denying the claims. Instead, Adams’ former Asian affairs adviser has a peculiar excuse for the alleged bribe.
“I make a mistake,” she told The City in an interview. “I’m so sorry. It’s a culture thing. I don’t know. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry. I feel so bad right now. I’m so sorry, honey.”
Greco called later again to plead away the allegations, The City reports.
“Can we forget about this? I try to be a good person. Please. Please. Please don’t do in the news nothing about me.”
“I just wanted to be her friend,” Greco told the outlet. “I just wanted to have one good friend. It’s nothing.”
Well, that changes everything. This isn’t a corruption scandal. This is the persecution of an innocent Asian-American woman trying to make a friend, the Chinese way.
“I can see how this looks strange,” Greco’s attorney, Steven Brill, told The City. “But I assure you that [Greco’s] intent was purely innocent. In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude. [Greco] is apologetic and embarrassed by any negative impression or confusion this may have caused.”
Right, which is why she allegedly made that gesture using an empty potato chip bag. Credit to Brill for coming up with the only possible defense for a client who more or less admitted her guilt on the record.
Cultural appreciation aside, you’d think Greco might have learned a thing or two about America since her last corruption scandal.
Greco’s house was raided by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in February 2024 in connection with corruption allegations, sources told the New York Post.
The Adams administration paid — with taxpayer dollars — for the Wyndham Garden hotel to “shelter more than 100 formerly incarcerated New Yorkers integrating back into society,” according to The City. New York City’s shelter contracts with the hotel amounted to $6.2 million a year in income, according to the outlet.
Greco, too, was allegedly a beneficiary of this scheme.
The City claims Greco lived in one of those hotel rooms “for more than eight months.” That expense, charged to the city, likely came to $50,000 or more, according to the paper.
The FBI publishes a list of major corruption cases they’ve uncovered over the years. Some involve embezzlement. Others, money laundering. In former President Richard Nixon’s case, a bungled cover-up.
None carried out their crimes via potato chip bag.
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Any chip bag that appears to be more than 1/4 filled, is surely filled with cash.
If the money - and potato chips - was in a Cape Cop Chips bag, I’d accept the bribe, but not in a Herr’s bag...
/illegal alien tangent
Ain’t that the truth...
?And they call me Money bags
Winnie Greco is a Chicom agent.
Why would he still have her on his team?
I’ve been around a lot of decades and hobnobbed with all but the super-rich and politically connected.
I’ve never heard of or seen such a thing as referenced by PeterPrinciple.
It’s got to be some elitist ‘kitschy/clique’ thing to do.
Frankly, it does smell ‘democrat’ doesn’t it? (they probably get the envelopes from their ccp handlers /s)
They made up stuff about Trump, couldn’t they have made this up?
You actually believe everything NYC prosecutors say? I’ve seen enough that I don’t.
Make it a positive. Hand out bags of chips at campaign events. Come to think of it pork rinds too. Sans the money of course.
Thank you!
I want to be Winnie’s friend. How much do I get? Brandon knows.
Frankly, it does smell democrat
Indeed
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