A Queens hotel that is being used by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and whose owner has been tied to top Adams administration officials was raided last week as part of a federal investigation, the Daily News has learned.
The hotel, the Mayflower Hotel in Long Island City, is owned by Weihong Hu, who has ties to former top Adams official Winnie Greco.
Authorities executed an early Thursday morning search warrant at the hotel as part of an investigation led by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, sources said. The hotel is currently being used as a transitional home for newly released inmates.
“Housing Works was not the target of the action by federal authorities – nor were any of the clients Housing Works serves at this site, agency management, any subsidiaries, subcontractors, etc.,” said Simbi Akiolu, the Housing Works rep.
The news outlet The City reported in May that Hu hosted Greco on taxpayers’ dime for more than eight months at the Wyndham Garden Fresh Meadows, Queens, another hotel she owns. Hu also threw campaign fundraisers with Adams present at the Fresh Meadows hotel when he was running for mayor in 2021, The City reported.