Adams Ally’s Potato Chip Handoff Probed

It’s the sour cream and onion bag that’s shaken New York politics.

Federal prosecutors are investigating a longtime adviser to Mayor Eric Adams for handing a journalist a Herr’s chip bag containing a red envelope with a $300 cash gift, my colleagues Laura Nahmias, Myles Miller, and Patricia Hurtado report.

The moment made for New York’s tabloids went down Wednesday between Winnie Greco, who resigned from her senior role in the Adams administration last year but then volunteered on his campaign, and Katie Honan, a reporter for the publication The City.

Greco said it was a gesture of friendship, not ...