Mayor Eric Adams’ chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin was stopped at the airport by federal authorities Friday and had her phone seized as she arrived home from vacation in Japan, sources told The Post.
Agents from the Southern District of New York were waiting for Lewis-Martin when she got off the plane at Kennedy Airport in Queens, sources said.
They had previously gone to her house in Brooklyn early Friday to try to serve her a subpoena for her phone and documents, sources said.
The stunning move comes during an extraordinary number of federal probes into the Adams administration and just a day after a bombshell five-count indictment that alleges that the mayor secretly solicited and accepted freebies and illegal campaign donations from wealthy foreigners, including Turkish officials, as far back as 2014.
Lewis-Martin, a longtime friend and adviser to Adams, has been on vacation in Japan for at least a week, with her absence at recent weekly press conferences held by the mayor raising eyebrows.
Lewis-Martin previously also worked alongside Adams as his deputy while he served as Brooklyn borough president.
While Lewis-Marton was in that position, Brianna Suggs, who feds allege played a part in a straw donation scheme revealed as part of Adams’ 57-page indictment, was hired as an intern.
Lewis-Martin’s lawyer did not return requests for comment from The Post on Friday.
This is a developing story.