Brianna Suggs, a longtime aide to Mayor Adams, is again in her previous job fundraising for his marketing campaign after being reassigned to an administrative function within the wake of an FBI raid on her dwelling in November 2023.
Suggs’ Brooklyn house was the primary dwelling raided within the federal investigation into Adams’ ties with Turkish authorities, which ultimately yielded corruption prices in opposition to the mayor.
It’s unclear precisely when Suggs, 27, resumed fundraising for the mayor.
Todd Shapiro, a spokesman for Adams’ reelection effort, confirmed Wednesday that Suggs has been concerned in fundraising for the 2025 bid, however wouldn’t say precisely when she bought again to doing that.
“She has worked on fundraising for the mayor’s winning campaign in 2021 and already has been instrumental in attracting additional supporters and forging new coalitions for the mayor’s reelection efforts,” Shapiro mentioned.
Suggs has since March 2022 been paid a complete of $450,160 by the mayor’s reelection marketing campaign, as of the newest disclosure filings launched in March. That features month-to-month retainer funds of $10,000 by the primary few months of 2025. The funds have been described as consulting work.
She’s a goddaughter of Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the mayor’s former chief adviser who resigned simply earlier than she was hit with state bribery prices in December. Suggs began working for Adams as an intern at Brooklyn Borough Corridor when he was borough president.
Adams’ indictment incorporates quite a few references to Suggs and her work serving to arrange fundraisers for the mayor that drew unlawful straw donations, however she was by no means charged with any wrongdoing by the feds.
Adams’ prices have been dropped in April after President Trump’s Division of Justice intervened. He’s now searching for reelection as an impartial, eschewing the Democratic major in June.
The fundraiser, set to be held Thursday night at Capital Grille in Manhattan, is being hosted by Tony Delgado, a distinguished Puerto Rican Trump supporter and founding father of a Latino finance platform, Hugo Sanchez, the founding father of a video conferencing firm, and Alejandro Zayas, a minister and group chief, in keeping with an invite.
Initially Revealed: Might 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM EDT
