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An hour after pleading not guilty to corruption charges in a ninth floor courtroom of Manhattan Supreme Court last week, Jesse Hamilton handed in his resignation as deputy commissioner for real estate at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS).

He’d just been hit with an indictment alleging that he’d conspired with Ingrid Lewis-Martin — then chief advisor to Mayor Eric Adams — to steer contracts to favored vendors and grea

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