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TODAY'S NUGGETS

🥔 A starchy surprise. A former aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently handed a reporter a bag of potato chips stuffed with cash, THE CITY reports, in an apparent failed bribe attempt straight out of a Naked Gun movie. Winnie Greco, a longtime Adams staffer who last year resigned from the mayor’s office over now-dismissed federal corruption probes, met with one of THE CITY’s reporters and handed her an open chip bag; the reporter declined what she thought was a simple snack offer, but Greco insisted. 

  • Later, the reporter investigated the bag to find an envelope “stuffed with cash, at least one $100 bill and several $20 bills.” When approached by THE CITY, Greco said the failed payoff was a “mistake” and “just a culture thing.” She was subsequently suspended from working on Adams’ reelection campaign.

👷 Labor rules in the hot seat. A federal judge has blocked the National Labor Relations Board’s lawsuits against Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX after the company argued that the agency’s structure is unconstitutional, jeopardizing the agency itself. SpaceX and two other firms accused of labor violations appealed their cases by attacking a law protecting the NLRB’s judges and members from being removed by the president. 

  • The ruling is a victory for the Trump administration as it defends its January firing of one of the NLRB’s Democratic members.