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The cash Winnie Greco, a former top aide to Mayor Eric Adams, slipped into an opened bag of Herr’s sour cream and onion chips and handed to a reporter for THE CITY came to $300 — 10 twenties and a single one hundred dollar bill, according to investigators.

The apparent attempted bribe took place last week after an Adams campaign event in Harlem as Greco — at the time a campaign volunteer — spoke with senior reporter Katie Honan inside a Whole

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