Winnie Greco was outed by news outlet The City for trying to give cash surreptitiously tucked inside a Herr's Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chip bag to one of its reporters.

A longtime adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who resigned from his administration while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday following a campaign event, a gift her lawyer later insisted wasn’t an attempted bribe.

Winnie Greco, who resigned from City Hall amid controversy, gave a journalist cash stuffed into an empty bag of sour cream and onion potato chips.

The reported incident potentially adds to ethical and legal questions already shadowing the mayor and his campaign.

A former top City Hall advisor and current campaign confidante to Mayor Eric Adams attempted to give money to a reporter from THE CITY following a campaign event in Harlem Wednesday.

Winnie Greco, an adviser to New York Mayor Eric Adams, has been suspended from his re-election effort after attempting to hand a journalist a potato chip bag stuffed with cash. NBC News' Tom Winter has details on the incident and Greco's initial response.

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) raked in over $1 million in campaign funding in recent weeks, out-earning both former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. Mamdani raised

An NYPD police officer was shot twice Friday morning while responding to the carjacking of an Uber driver by a violent career criminal who was out on parole, police and New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.