One of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s closest advisors has been named by Chinese Communist Party-backed organizations as their longtime “consultant,” The Post has learned.
Winnie Greco was among City Hall’s most important dignitaries when Edward Caban was sworn in as the new police commissioner in July.Greco repeatedly escorted Adams to China when he was Brooklyn borough president, including to Beijing in 2017, where he met Su Bensheng, , vice president of the Beijing Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. It was subsequently designated by the State Department as a Communist Party “malign influence” campaign.
Greco enjoys a place of privilege alongside the mayor, appearing in the front row of dignitaries at the appointment of Edward Caban as the city’s new police commissioner last month, and at various public events at Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence. A Chinese immigrant, born Zheng Qirong, she arrived in the US in the late 1990s and started off by selling windows and doors in the Bronx with her former husband, Nickolas Greco, according to public records.
— just over $27,000 — from the municipal government of the city of Dongguan “to help the association serve the folks in the US,” according to a post on the organization’s Chinese-language website. representing the borough’s Chinese community. Public records suggest Greco was living in the Bronx at the time.
Adams and Greco photographed on a trip to China in 2017. Greco received praise and funding from CCP organizations in China.in a Chinese media report as the “consultant of the US web site of the Fujian Daily Southeast Network,” according to a Chinese media report. It is an affiliate of the official newspaper of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the CCP.which was at the same time as the 19th Communist Party Congress — the most important display of the party’s power.