Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams adviser Winnie Greco back in action, helping drive turnout for campaign kickoff

Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News on Jun 26, 2025

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NEW YORK — Two controversial allies of New York Eric Mayor Adams with ties to the Chinese government helped drive turnout for his Thursday reelection campaign kickoff rally, according to sources familiar with the matter.

In the days leading up to the rally, Winnie Greco, an ex-senior adviser to Adams whose homes were raided by the FBI last year, worked the phones and took other steps to get people to show up for the event, the sources said. Robin Mui, an Adams donor and CEO of Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao, worked with Greco on that effort, the sources told the Daily News.

Adams campaign spokesman Todd Shapiro said they aren’t formally involved in the campaign and suggested people volunteer their services for all types of events.

Mui, who’s a registered agent of the Chinese government, and Greco didn’t immediately return calls and texts.

The rally was set to be held on the steps of City Hall around noon, and Adams’ team says it ‘s expected to draw hundreds of supporters.

It marks the first major campaign event Adams has held since President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice in April secured a controversial dismissal of the mayor’s corruption indictment, which alleged he took bribes and illegal campaign cash from Turkish government operatives. The dismissal has led many to believe Adams is beholden to Trump’s agenda, an accusation the mayor denies.

Greco resigned as a City Hall adviser to Adams after FBI agents in February 2024 raided her two Bronx homes as part of an investigation that has reportedly focused at least in part on her connections to China’s government. A longtime fundraiser for Adams, Greco’ met regularly with Chinese government Party officials while still at City Hall.

The probe into Greco has produced no charges and it’s unclear whether the inquiry is continuing.

Greco’s involvement in Thursday’s rally comes after she appeared earlier this week with Adams for a ribbon-cutting event at a hookah lounge in Queens, the first time in months she was spotted publicly with him at an official government event.

Mui has been a donor to Adams’ political efforts going back to his time as Brooklyn borough president.

Mui was forced by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2021 to register himself and his newspaper as agents of China’s government. The DOJ made that call after determining they were engaged in “political activity” on China’s behalf.

Mui has maintained he isn’t a Chinese agent. Still, he has filed disclosures with the DOJ, as required under federal law, detailing his work activities.

Last year, The News reported Mui had failed to report to the DOJ that he met in an official capacity in 2022 with Greco and Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’ then-chief adviser who has since been indicted on unrelated corruption charges.