Top Eric Adams aide promised volunteer a City Hall job in exchange for renovation work: report

One of Mayor Eric Adams’ top aides allegedly promised a 2021 campaign volunteer a job in the administration if he completed renovation work on her home — and asked another for a hefty donation in exchange for Gracie Mansion access, according to a new report.

Winnie Greco, 61, a longtime member of the mayor’s inner circle and City Hall’s current director of Asian affairs, is said to have asked one volunteer — only identified as a 33-year-old tech worker from Queens — to carry out the work on her Bronx kitchen in early 2022, The City reported Wednesday.

Around the same time, Greco also appealed to a Chinese business executive, who had made significant contributions to Adams’ mayoral campaign, to make a $10,000 donation for access to a Chinese-focused government event that Hizzoner held at Gracie Mansion.

The two campaign volunteers spoke anonymously to the outlet in the weeks before it was revealed Adams’ campaign was embroiled in an FBI corruption probe that’s looking at whether it conspired with the Turkish government to allegedly accept illegal donations.

It isn’t clear if Greco, who earned a $100,000 salary from the city last year, violated city ethics rules in her liaisons with the two volunteers. A City Hall spokesperson told The Post that Greco denies the claims in The City’s report.

The tech worker claims Greco followed through with her offer of a City Hall job by allegedly landing him interviews with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs — several months after he started helping two contractors with the renovation work, the report said.

After he was hired as a program coordinator in July 2022, he told the outlet, Greco allegedly continued to ask him to carry out renovation work, including cleaning her kitchen and removing debris, while he was on the clock for the city.

He also claimed Greco, who is Hizzoner’s years-long link to Asian communities, would regularly ask him to help her respond to emails and translate them into Chinese.

“I felt obligated to help her. Two weeks after I began working at MOIA, she said to me, ‘Do you know how much effort I made to get you hired?’” he told The City. 

The tech worker, who claims things turned sour for him when he started refusing to help Greco, said he was fired in June after being given a three-month warning from his bosses.

He alleged that when he asked his boss what he could do to improve his performance during a meeting in April, his higher-up told him: “Be good to Winnie.”

Meanwhile, the business exec who said Greco had asked for the $10,000 donation claimed Adams’ top aide requested the contribution be made out to a nonprofit she founded 10 years prior.

Greco had allegedly asked the same of five other donors, he claimed to the outlet.

The Post reached out to Greco about the claims but didn’t hear back immediately.

City Hall spokesman Charles Lutvak said Greco “strongly denies” any suggestion of illegal misconduct.

“Throughout the time Mayor Adams has known Winnie, she has been a faithful public servant and advocate for her community,” the spokesman said.

“He is not aware of any inappropriate behavior whatsoever, and she strongly denies any allegations of illegal behavior.”

The spokesman added that the tech worker — whom he described as a “disgruntled former employee” — was fired for a “documented cause” but wouldn’t elaborate further.

Campaign spokesman Evan Thies, meanwhile, said, “Ms. Greco did not have a formal role on the campaign and has no authority to make promises to volunteers. A number of assertions made by The City in their article are simply incorrect.”