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Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid delivers his last live morning show of the year before leaving the airwaves until 2025 as he gets set to enjoy his extended holiday vacation. In news of the day, Fani Willis is removed from Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case, a GOP-led report recommends an investigation be opened looking into Liz Cheney and her January 6th claims, a government shutdown looms now as another spending bill is killed on The Hill, UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione is finally extradited back to NYC, and Mayor Eric Adams' now former top advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin is indicted for bribery, and Sid debriefs last night's One Israel Fund Gala held here in Manhattan. Yehuda Honickmen, Curtis Sliwa, Scott LoBaido, Joe Tacopina, Lisa Tuozzolo, Lou Tutone, Hadassa Goldberg and Joe Benigno join Sid on this final 2024 installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	77 WabC. This is Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:05.5	No, I get by with a little help for my friends.
0:09.5	One of Mayor Eric Adams' closest and longest serving aides indicted.
0:14.4	Ingrid Lewis Martin is facing bribery charges.
0:17.1	Prosecutors say they stem from a quid pro quo arrangement involving her son and two real estate investors.
0:23.6	Box V's Morgan McCoy joins us live with the details on this breaking story.
0:27.0	Busy Day, Morgan.
0:28.0	Steve Natasha, Mayor Eric Adams' longest serving advisor, Ingrid Lewis Martin, was charged with conspiracy, bribe receiving, and money laundering.
0:37.0	Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said this indictment could be summed up in, quote,
0:41.0	just three words, quid pro quo.
0:44.7	Her son, Glenn Martin II, was also facing the same charges,
0:49.7	and also indicted alongside the two were two real estate investors
0:54.0	who were facing conspiracy and bribery charges.
0:57.9	Ingrid Lewis Martin led inside the courtroom in handcuffs.
1:01.9	She turned herself into the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and was arraigned at 2.30,
1:06.5	where she and the three others all pled not guilty.
1:09.6	Now, prosecutors allege that Lewis Martin used her position as one of the closest advisors to Mayor Adams
1:14.7	to ask the Department of Buildings Commissioner to expedite construction permits and applications of buildings
1:21.4	owned by Rosada, Vayed, and Mayank de D'avidi.
1:25.6	The two real estate investors that were charged. In return, Vayed and Dovidi
1:30.1	paid Louis Martin's son $100,000. Prosecutors alleged that he then laundered this money through his
1:36.1	DJ business and then used that money to buy a Porsche. Prosecutors also alleged that two men
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