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The money spigot first opened in the budgets for 2020 and 2021, when Adams sprayed $105,000 from her office’s pot of allotted funds into the Allen Community Senior Citizens Center network, where M. Elaine Flake is board chair, records show.After seizing the speaker’s gavel in 2022 — at a ceremony where M. Elaine Flake gave the invocation — groups linked to the church began receiving unprecedented sums of taxpayer cash, records show.https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/us-news/council-speaker-adrienne-adams-is-queens-preachers-golden-goose/