Winnie Greco, the ex-adviser to Mayor Eric Adams who handed a reporter a cash-stuffed potato chip bag, bizarrely claimed Friday that the controversial packet was her “birthday gift” and implied that the journalist she slipped the money to wanted to “hurt her.

Adams campaign adviser Winnie Greco gave a Herr's Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chip filled with cash to a reporter from local news outlet the City.