City taxpayers will no longer be footing the bill to defend two former NYPD officers and Eric Adams allies who were both accused of repeated sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Law Department dropped Timothy Pearson \u2014 a former close adviser \u2014 and Jeffrey Maddrey \u2014 who was promoted under Adams administration promoted to the NYPD’s Chief of Department \u2014 after City Council Speaker Julie Menin and others raised concerns in recent months.<\/p>\n
During the Feb. 4 confirmation hearing for Corporation Counsel Steven Banks to head the city\u2019s law department, Menin said the Council was not happy about using taxpayers\u2019 dollars to fund the two former officials\u2019 legal defense.<\/p>\n
Maddrey resigned<\/a> from his post two years ago after being accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a female subordinate in exchange for overtime pay. Pearson also resigned two years ago after being accused<\/a> of making repeated sexual advances, and even blocking the promotion of a female subordinate in retaliation for refusing his advances.<\/p>\n \u201cTaxpayer dollars must be used responsibly, and New Yorkers should not be footing the bill for legal defenses tied to allegations of workplace misconduct,\u201d Menin said in a statement Friday. \u201cI\u2019m encouraged that the Law Department is taking steps to ensure public funds are not used inappropriately in these types of cases.\u201d<\/p>\n Banks said he reviewed the details of the cases and found the men did not qualify for representation.<\/p>\n \u201cBased on my review of new evidence since the original decisions were made, I have determined that [Pearson] is not entitled to representation by the City in these matters. Thus, the City will no longer pay for Mr. Pearson\u2019s legal representation,\u201d Banks said. \u201cSimilarly, based on my review of new evidence, I have also determined Jeffrey Maddrey is not entitled to representation under the General Municipal Law in the four lawsuits involving allegations against Mr. Pearson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City taxpayers will no longer be footing the bill to defend two former NYPD officers and Eric Adams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-162854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}