Longtime Adams consigliere Ingrid Lewis-Martin defiantly blasts her looming indictment — allegedly over illegal gifts: ‘I’m here falsely accused’

Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime consigliere Ingrid Lewis-Martin revealed Monday she expects the looming indictment against her will allege she took illegal gifts — as she defiantly denied wrongdoing.

Lewis-Martin — who abruptly resigned from City Hall Sunday over the anticipated criminal charges — claimed she was being railroaded by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office during a theatrical press conference at her defense attorney Arthur Aidala’s Midtown office.

“I’m here falsely accused of something,” Lewis-Martin, 63, said. “I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know that I was told that it’s something that’s illegal, and I have never done anything illegal in my capacity in government.”

Both Lewis-Martin and Aidala were vague on the exact accusations they expect will be leveled against her after Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office convened a grand jury last week.

But they hinted the indictment expected to be unveiled this week will accuse Lewis-Martin —  one of the mayor’s closest confidants who first met him in the 1980s when he was in the police academy — of taking illegal gifts.

The news conference — an unusual and brazen move for someone reputedly about to be indicted — featured a smiling Lewis-Martin, bedecked in a green velvet suit, appearing as a surprise guest and doubled as an airing of grievances and a preemptive jab against prosecutors’ yet-to-be-revealed case.

Her well-connected lawyer, Aidala, claimed Bragg’s prosecutors were out to grab headlines after their unsuccessful prosecution of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran acquitted in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway car last May.

“They wanted a press conference,” he said. “They wanted headlines. And sadly, that’s because politics has really infiltrated the justice system.

“We all know that the Manhattan DA’s office took a big black eye last week … with the Penny verdict. This is now going to, you know, to distract it from that right before Christmas, and maybe, you know, nullify that.”

Aidala not only said the case is likely to include at least one other person, but also that city prosecutors are targeting Lewis-Martin in hopes she’d flip against Adams — who is fighting a federal indictment from the Southern District of New York.

“We all know that there’s a long tradition of when the Southern District gets a big case that the Manhattan DA’s office tries to get whatever they can off of it,” he said. “This has been going on for decades and decades and decades.”

The lawyer, who has represented disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, contended that prosecutors showed their bias against Lewis-Martin by repeatedly refusing requests to sit with her for a meeting where they would agree not to use her words against her.

But Aidala said Lewis-Martin ultimately declined to tell her side of the story to the grand jury currently meeting to decide whether to bring the indictment.

He said he expects texts and emails related to Lewis-Martin and obtained as part of the DA’s investigation will be taken out of context to create a “narrative,” rather than seek the truth.

“We’re preparing for an indictment to come down, and I am sure it will be written in a way that sounds damning,” he said. “And again, pieces of puzzles are going to be put together to make it look as horrible as possible. But we know the truth. And the truth is that Ingrid Lewis-Martin never broke the law.”

A spokesperson for Bragg declined to comment.

“Because this office acts with the utmost integrity, it would be inappropriate for us to respond,” a rep said.

Adams, during a surprise news conference of his own Monday, referred to Lewis-Martin as his “longtime friend and sister,” but refused to comment further.

A City Hall press officer repeatedly blocked reporters from asking Adams questions about Lewis-Martin and her apparently impending indictment. The mayor referred queries about her to Aidala.

“I’m not going to touch on Ingrid’s next steps,” Adams said. “She has an attorney.”

— Additional reporting by Hannah Fierick