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Manhattan prosecutors say that he'd conspired with Ingrid Lewis-Martin, another old friend and former advisor to Mayor Eric Adams, to steer city contracts to favored vendors and help a bribe-paying developer seeking to overcome bureaucratic roadblocks.
The charges and the stepdown come nearly a year after prosecutors seized Hamilton and Martin’s phones last September as they disembarked at Kennedy Airport from vacation in Japan, joined by a lobbyist, a real estate broker and an Adams campaign fundraiser.
But while Lewis-Martin and several other top Adams aides — including his schools chancellor, police commissioner, first deputy mayor and deputy mayor for public safety — resigned after having their phones confiscated by law enforcement last year, Hamilton stayed put.
The longtime Adams pal was somehow able to keep his job despite the fact that he'd been implicated in a remarkably eclectic series of conflict-of-interest and influence peddling allegations that kept on coming.
Hamilton has since been caught trying to steer a huge DCAS lease to a Wall Street building owner who'd raised big bucks for the mayor's campaign and legal defense fund.
He also appeared in a YouTube video produced by his staff in which, as deputy commissioner, he personally promoted a privately owned Bronx shipping warehouse facility DCAS was considering buying. Not to mention questionable junkets to China.
Following last week’s indictment, Adams showed support, stating that he wished Hamilton "the best."
"The lack of oversight and accountability speaks volumes," said Councilmember Lincoln Restler, who has examined Hamilton's actions at DCAS as chair of the Council's governmental operations committee. "Despite the many investigations and allegations of significant wrongdoing, there has been no action by Eric Adams and his team to hold Jesse Hamilton accountable or place guard rails around him for three and a half years."
Read more here about what finally caused Hamilton to bow out of government work.
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