New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a lawsuit filed against the city on Wednesday. The unidentified plaintiff, who claims to have worked with Adams at the New York City Police Department, is seeking at least $5 million from the department’s transit bureau and Guardian Association, submitting her motion just before the deadline for the Adult Survivors Act.
According to the three-page summons filed just before Thanksgiving, “the plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York.” The filing further charges Adams with “sexual assault, battery, and employment discrimination on the basis of the Plaintiff’s gender and sex, retaliation, hostile work environment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
The lawsuit was filed just ahead of the deadline of New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which took effect in November 2022 and allowed a one-year window for sexual assault survivors to file civil suits in cases for which the criminal statute of limitations has elapsed. This controversial law passed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul led to a massive influx of civil cases against prominent public figures, including former President Donald Trump, rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, and comedian Russell Brand.
The act expired on Friday, less than 48 hours after the suit against Adams was made public.
The transit bureau of the NYPD and the department’s Guardian Association are listed as co-defendants. According to the suit, the plaintiff is seeking a trial to collect $5 million in damages, along with all associated attorney fees.
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“The mayor does not know who this person is. If they ever met, he doesn’t recall it,” said a spokesman for the mayor’s office on Thursday. “But he would never do anything to physically harm another person and vigorously denies any such claim.”
Ahead of scheduled Thanksgiving activities, Mayor Adams, a 22-year veteran of the NYPD, also denied the allegations personally. “My career speaks for itself,” he said. “It’s just something absolutely that has never happened. I don’t even recall ever meeting the person who made this allegation.”
“I have a city to run and I’m focused and I have to make sure that we continue to do so, but absolutely, this has never happened,” he continued.
The sexual assault accusations against Adams came less than two weeks after the mayor’s electronic devices were temporarily seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with a public corruption probe into his 2021 mayoral campaign.
Both of these major headaches for the New York Mayor followed closely after he began to publicly criticize the Biden administration and the Democratic establishment for the flood of illegal immigrants straining his city’s resources.
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