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Mayor Eric Adams’ closest longtime advisor, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, sold off her influence to a wide variety of interests, taking free catering, cash, home renovations and other gifts in exchange for her help eliminating bureaucratic hurdles for developers and steering lucrative contracts to select vendors, prosecutors charged Thursday.

The breadth of her alleged perfidy was breathtaking: funneling contracts for migrant shelter sites to favored developers, fast-tracking development projects and a permit for one developer’s karaoke bar, altering a street des

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