A longtime adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams who resigned from his administration while under FBI scrutiny gave a reporter a potato chip bag filled with cash Wednesday following a campaign event, a gift her lawyer later insisted wasn’t an attempted bribe.

Several associates and former Eric Adams aides face corruption indictments a day after one of Adams' aides allegedly attempted to hand a reporter cash stuffed inside a potato chip bag.

Mayor Eric Adams defended his administration and his re-election bid on Friday amid corruption charges against some of his closest allies.

The money, tucked in a red envelope in the bag, was a “gesture of affection,” the volunteer’s lawyer said.