Ex-Mayor Adams accuses Mamdani admin of playing politics as he seeks taxpayer-funded defense in sex assault suit

Fuente: New York Post

Former Mayor Eric Adams accused his successor’s administration of playing politics — as he pushed for taxpayers to foot his legal bills in a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault three decades ago. The city Law Department filed court papers last month seeking to stop representing Adams in the long-running case, arguing that newly unearthed records showed he wasn’t acting within the scope of his employment as a transit cop at the time of the allegations. “There is no reason why the taxpayers should pay for the defense in this case,” city attorney Maxwell Leighton said in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday.