07-05-2025
Mayor Adams aide Brianna Suggs back in former fundraising gig
Brianna Suggs, a longtime aide to Mayor Adams, is back in her old job fundraising for his campaign after being reassigned to an administrative role in the wake of an FBI raid on her home in November 2023.
Suggs' Brooklyn apartment was the first home raided in the federal investigation into Adams' ties with the Turkish government, which eventually yielded corruption charges against the mayor.
It's unclear exactly when Suggs, 27, resumed fundraising for the mayor.
But in the past two weeks, Suggs reached out to at least one real estate executive to gauge interest in hosting a fundraiser for the mayor's reelection bid, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News.
Todd Shapiro, a spokesman for Adams' reelection effort, confirmed Wednesday that Suggs has been involved in fundraising for the 2025 bid, but wouldn't say exactly when she got back 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 said.
Suggs has since March 2022 been paid a total of $450,160 by the mayor's reelection campaign, as of the latest disclosure filings released in March. That includes monthly retainer payments of $10,000 through the first few months of 2025. The payments were described as consulting work.
She's a goddaughter of Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the mayor's former chief adviser who resigned just before she was hit with state bribery charges in December. Suggs started working for Adams as an intern at Brooklyn Borough Hall when he was borough president.
Adams' indictment contains numerous references to Suggs and her work helping set up fundraisers for the mayor that drew illegal straw donations, but she was never charged with any wrongdoing by the feds.
Adams' charges were dropped in April after President Trump's Department of Justice intervened. He's now seeking reelection as an independent, eschewing the Democratic primary in June.
The news of Suggs' return to her old gig comes as Adams is preparing to host one of his first fundraisers since his charges were dropped.
The fundraiser, set to be held Thursday evening at Capital Grille in Manhattan, is being hosted by Tony Delgado, a prominent Puerto Rican Trump supporter and founder of a Latino finance platform, Hugo Sanchez, the founder of a video conferencing company, and Alejandro Zayas, a minister and community leader, according to an invitation.
