I’m not afraid. I know what I did and didn’t do,” Lewis-Martin added, according to a filing. “This is wrong. I have God and faith. I’ll tell the judge myself. I’m ...

City Councilmember Lincoln Restler said the city should consider working with new brokerages after a lawsuit accusing its top real estate official of favoritism.

The brokerage claims top Eric Adams aide Jesse Hamilton pressured Cushman & Wakefield to install the executive on the city business account.

JRT Realty was Cushman & Wakefield’s longtime partner for bids for city agency work — until an Adams aide cut JRT out of the deals, a new suit alleges.

JRT claims it was shunted aside by Diana Boutross, a Cushman & Wakefield vice chair who was put in charge of the firm’s account with DCAS in August 2023 despite lacking experience with city leases.

Hamilton and Boutross then traveled to Japan with a lobbyist and the mayor’s closest aide — the recently indicted Ingrid Lewis-Martin — on a trip the mayor has described as a vacation.

Diana Boutross. The timing of these developments coincided with Lewis-Martin's return from a vacation where both Hamilton and Boutross were present, raising questions about conflicts of interest.

Hamilton and Boutross then traveled to Japan with a lobbyist and the mayor’s closest aide — the recently indicted Ingrid Lewis-Martin — on a trip the mayor has described as a vacation.