NEW YORK — In the two years before FBI agents raided her homes, Winnie Greco, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime Asian affairs adviser, regularly met in her City Hall capacity with Chinese government officials and members of groups funded by and supportive of China’s ruling Communist Party.

Many of Greco’s meetings were held at Queens’ New World Mall — which the feds raided at the same time as they searched her Bronx homes last year — and are memorialized in hundreds of pages of schedule entries obtained by The New York Daily News.

The never-before-disclosed meetings are taking on renewed significance as the federal investigation that prompted the February 2024 raids continues and is at least in part scrutinizing Greco’s ties to China’s government, according to sources. No charges have been filed in that probe.

Besides various New World Mall appointments, the schedules reveal Greco, who resigned in October, met at least 11 times with Huang Ping, China’s New York consul general, including attending a private dinner with him at his official Manhattan residence in 2023. The schedules, which span Greco’s entire tenure in Adams’ administration, don’t show her interacting as much with officials from any other foreign government.

The Greco probe’s being led by Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, who has recently prosecuted several high-profile cases related to alleged Chinese government influence operations.

That includes Peace’s September indictment of Linda Sun, an ex-aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who’s accused of acting as a Chinese agent to influence New York government operations on behalf of Beijing. Peace’s prosecutors allege Sun, who has pleaded not guilty, took orders and bribes from Huang, the Chinese consul general who also met several times with Greco and abruptly left his diplomatic post in New York after Sun’s indictment.

The revelations about Greco, who worked and raised money for Adams for years before resigning, come as Peace’s probe of her continues.

The exact contours of the investigation remain unknown, but sources familiar with the matter say her Chinese government ties are being eyed, including trips she took to China with Adams. The news outlet The City has also reported the New World fundraisers Greco threw for Adams drew money from mall employees who say they were reimbursed for contributing or didn’t give at all — raising the possibility the cash may have been illegal straw donations.

A Peace spokesman declined to comment on Greco’s schedules.

After indicting Sun, Peace said in September his office would continue to “act decisively to prosecute those who serve as undisclosed agents of a foreign government.”

Greco’s lawyer, Steven Brill, wouldn’t answer specific questions this month about her schedules, but wrote in an email: “Despite numerous news reports and rumors surrounding Winnie, she has been charged with no crimes and is not cooperating with any federal or state authorities.”

Another group that has drawn attention from Peace is the Changle Association, which made headlines last year after his office indicted its leader and another man on charges alleging they ran a covert Chinese government police station out of the organization’s Chinatown offices to spy on Americans.

One of the men, Chen Jinping, pleaded guilty last month to espionage charges over his role in the illicit police station, while the other, Changle Association President Lu Jianwang, is continuing to fight his case.

Greco’s schedules entries show she met with members of the Changle Association on Sept. 26, 2022 at New World’s Royal Queen, a dim sum restaurant where she had months earlier hosted the Adams campaign fundraisers that raised straw donor concerns.

It’s unclear from the September 2022 schedule entry which specific Changle members Greco met with.

The Changle appointment’s among 42 meetings Greco held at New World listed in her City Hall schedules, which were obtained by the Daily News via a Freedom of Information Law request. Most of those meetings took place at Royal Queen, and nearly all of them were with members of local Chinese commerce and community interest groups.

Several of those groups, including Changle, are associated with China’s “United Front,” an arm of President Xi Jinping’s regime that uses community organizations across the world to “influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” according to a 2018 study by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Xi has called the United Front his “secret weapon,” and the study says many overseas groups connected to its operations receive funding from China’s ruling Communist Party.

Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak said last week she couldn’t comment on what city government purposes there were in Greco’s various meetings at New World since “she’s no longer an employee here.”

It’s previously known that Greco had ties to Chinese government groups before joining Adams’ administration, including by serving as a “consultant” to Beijing-funded organizations.

But it hasn’t before been reported she regularly interacted with many such groups after joining Adams’ administration, a detail that’s coming to light as the mayor remains under federal indictment on charges alleging he took bribes and illegal campaign cash from Turkish government operatives in exchange for political favors.

Adams, who has pleaded not guilty, often says it’s important for his team to develop ties with ethnic community groups in the city, even as some of those connections have stoked controversy.

Immediately after the Feb. 29, 2024 raids at her homes and the mall, Greco’s schedule entries show she kept going to New World, visiting it five times in nine days.

One of those visits, on March 2, was to meet with the Wen Chow Association, an affiliate of the Alliance of Asian American Friends, a local umbrella organization supportive of China’s Communist Party that watchdog group Influence Watch has identified as a United Front entity. Another visit Greco made on March 6 was to attend a gala for the American Fujian Association, also considered a local pro-Communist Party group.

Those visits came even though Adams’ office said at the time Greco went on paid leave immediately following the raids because of a medical episode she suffered when agents burst into her homes that required hospitalization.

After the five post-raid mall appointments, Greco’s schedules went almost entirely empty, and stayed that way even after she officially came back to work in early May at a $196,267 salary.

In fact, besides a weekly virtual “AAPI team” confab, the final entry on Greco’s schedules was a private May 23 meeting at City Hall with Adams and Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng, deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Shanghai Committee. After that sit-down, the only schedule entries for Greco’s remaining five months at City Hall were weekly AAPI team meets.

Mamelak, Adams’ spokeswoman, said Greco worked as usual her final months, but didn’t elaborate on why her schedules stayed mostly empty. Mamelak said she couldn’t comment on Greco’s post-raid New World visits.

Another prominent United Front-tied outfit Greco met with in her City Hall capacity was the American Chinese Commerce Association, including three sit-downs with the group over five days in June 2022, her schedules show.

The group’s chairman is John Chan, a former Chinatown gangster convicted of human trafficking and drug smuggling charges in the mid-2000s who has since become influential in New York politics.

Chan has been publicly supportive of President Xi and raised eyebrows last year by attending the annual meeting in Beijing of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the top organ within the United Front framework. The FBI reportedly questioned Chan before he left for that trip to China.

Greco and Chan together attended several meetings with Huang, China’s ex-consul general, and other Chinese government officials. That included a Sept. 15, 2023 celebration of the 74th anniversary of the Chinese revolution hosted at China’s embassy in Manhattan, where Chan and Huang delivered remarks, Greco’s schedules entries and photos from the event show.

That event came a few days after Greco met with Huang and other Chinese officials at a “Zang Zhou City Industry Promotion Conference” at Marriott Downtown on Aug. 22, 2023, her schedules show.

“The government, and local people, businessmen got to do working together, learn (from) each other and to promote each other’s city,” Greco said in remarks at that event, video reviewed by the Daily News shows.

Most of Greco’s meetings with Huang took place at China’s 12th Ave. embassy, which U.S. officials have accused of being a hub for espionage efforts. She also had the private dinner with him at his Chinese government residence on nearby W. 43rd St. on Oct. 22, 2023, her schedules show.

The first time Greco met Huang in her City Hall capacity was in a more informal setting, as she sat down with him for dinner at a Korean restaurant in Flushing in July 2022, her schedules show. The records show that dinner was also attended by Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’ ex-chief adviser who was recently indicted on corruption charges to which she has pleaded not guilty.

Other Chinese government groups Greco met with included SinoVision, a Chinese language TV network reportedly controlled by Chinese government authorities that closed permanently in September.

Per her schedules, Greco attended a “VIP reception” at SinoVision’s Queens office on Jan. 27, 2024, about a month before the raids.

On New Year’s Eve 2023, her schedules show Greco also attended a “countdown event” in Times Square hosted by the Sino-American Friendship Association, a group known for organizing trips to China for U.S. officials and celebrities to meet United Front leaders.

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