Court documents and an NYPD official both indicate that Mayor Adams and the accused lady were coworkers in the city's Transit Police Department prior to the allegations of sexual abuse.
News outlets are withholding the woman's identity owing to the delicate nature of her accusations, but she took legal action late Wednesday by notifying the Manhattan Supreme Court of her intention to sue Adams, claiming that he sexually attacked her in 1993 when they were "both worked for the City of New York."
Filing the notification barely 24 hours before the Adult Survivors Act expired permitted victims of sexual misconduct to sue their alleged abusers even if a statute of limitation had expired; however, the notice did not expand on the claim.
Adams was a member of the city's Transit Police Department in 1993; the department was formerly distinct from the New York Police Department. He has strongly rejected the assault claim. In 1984, he began his career with the Transit Police.
Her accuser failed to specify in her notice which municipal agency the mayor was employed by during the alleged assault; however, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed late Friday that records indicate she was working by the Transit Police Department from November 1980 to October 1993.
The spokesperson confirmed that she had taken several leaves of absence while employed, but could not provide specific dates for them.
The complainant, in 2009, while testifying under oath in a federal court case in Florida against American Airlines, matched the date provided by the NYPD spokesperson when she stated that she began working as a "administrative aide" for the city Transit Police Department about 1980.
My position as a full-time police administrative in the central records department was filled up by an internal recruitment drive. Examined transcripts show that she stated, "I would work from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in the morning" during a jury trial that took place on June 23, 2009, in relation to that case.
According to her testimony, she was promoted to the position of "senior police administrative aide" at Transit Police "eventually." She further stated that she had a short stint working for the city's probation department, although she did not specify for how long.
In her testimony, she omitted certain details around her departure from the Transit Police Department. It is unclear from her court notification whether month in 1993 the alleged assault occurred.
In a court procedure in 2009, she did say that she relocated to Florida in 1996 after landing a job at a health facility there. According to her LinkedIn page, the woman began her career in public education in the Miami region in the year 2000.
No one could get in touch with the lady on Friday to get her reaction about the lawsuit she filed against Adams, in which she had stated her intention to seek damages of at least $5 million. The attorney representing her, Megan Goddard, chose not to comment.
When exactly the lady intends to submit a detailed complaint expanding on her allegation is unknown. The woman's notification adds that the New York Police Department's transit bureau, the city, and the Guardians Association—a fraternal police group that the mayor was a president of while serving in the department—will all be named as defendants in her complaint, along with Adams.
Adams dismissed the woman's complaint as a "out‑of‑nowhere lawsuit" and claimed he cannot remember "who this person is or if I ever met them" when he appeared on Friday morning's "Good Music, Good Times" chat program to address the charges.
"I am not sure, but I know exactly how I live my life, and nothing like it has ever happened in my life. In no world did it ever occur. That's not my character. Former New York City Police Department captain Adams, who joined the force in 1995 as a result of a merger with the Transit Police agency, stated, "I would never harm anyone." In 2006, he retired from the force.
In relation to the assault case, the mayor has also verified that the city law department would be his legal counsel.
Democrat and Oversight Committee leader of the Manhattan Council Gale Brewer questioned Adams' ability to retain legal representation, noting that the woman's charges occurred before he was mayor. She tweeted, "This needs scrutiny," in response to the mayor's remarks on the talk program.
Since the matter pertains to Adams' tenure as a municipal employee, he is within his rights to utilize the Law Department, according to a spokesperson from municipal Hall.
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There are many lawsuits that the mayor's accuser has filed. She sued American Airlines in federal court, stating that an employee's carelessness caused her to lose control of her wheelchair and suffer back injuries while on a vacation to Japan. The airline was exempted from paying damages once that lawsuit was abandoned. Additionally, she accused her pupils, one of them was "a 6-year-old," of abusing her while she was a teacher and sued Miami-Dade County for the incident. The court rejected that case.
The woman's book, which "many years spent fighting for myself and others in various courts" (including "small claims, civil, circuit, family, lower appellate, and the United States Supreme Court") is available for purchase on Amazon.com, according to NBC4. In the book's summary, there is the following bit of advice: "Keep going. You might end up winning.
For Adams, the assault lawsuit is a bolt from the blue. His 2021 campaign is under investigation by the FBI on charges that it colluded with the Turkish government to launder illicit foreign funds through anonymous contributors. While the investigation is continuing, Adams has not faced any accusations of misconduct.
News outlets are withholding the woman's identity owing to the delicate nature of her accusations, but she took legal action late Wednesday by notifying the Manhattan Supreme Court of her intention to sue Adams, claiming that he sexually attacked her in 1993 when they were "both worked for the City of New York."
Filing the notification barely 24 hours before the Adult Survivors Act expired permitted victims of sexual misconduct to sue their alleged abusers even if a statute of limitation had expired; however, the notice did not expand on the claim.
Adams was a member of the city's Transit Police Department in 1993; the department was formerly distinct from the New York Police Department. He has strongly rejected the assault claim. In 1984, he began his career with the Transit Police.
Her accuser failed to specify in her notice which municipal agency the mayor was employed by during the alleged assault; however, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed late Friday that records indicate she was working by the Transit Police Department from November 1980 to October 1993.
The spokesperson confirmed that she had taken several leaves of absence while employed, but could not provide specific dates for them.
The complainant, in 2009, while testifying under oath in a federal court case in Florida against American Airlines, matched the date provided by the NYPD spokesperson when she stated that she began working as a "administrative aide" for the city Transit Police Department about 1980.
My position as a full-time police administrative in the central records department was filled up by an internal recruitment drive. Examined transcripts show that she stated, "I would work from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in the morning" during a jury trial that took place on June 23, 2009, in relation to that case.
According to her testimony, she was promoted to the position of "senior police administrative aide" at Transit Police "eventually." She further stated that she had a short stint working for the city's probation department, although she did not specify for how long.
In her testimony, she omitted certain details around her departure from the Transit Police Department. It is unclear from her court notification whether month in 1993 the alleged assault occurred.
In a court procedure in 2009, she did say that she relocated to Florida in 1996 after landing a job at a health facility there. According to her LinkedIn page, the woman began her career in public education in the Miami region in the year 2000.
No one could get in touch with the lady on Friday to get her reaction about the lawsuit she filed against Adams, in which she had stated her intention to seek damages of at least $5 million. The attorney representing her, Megan Goddard, chose not to comment.
When exactly the lady intends to submit a detailed complaint expanding on her allegation is unknown. The woman's notification adds that the New York Police Department's transit bureau, the city, and the Guardians Association—a fraternal police group that the mayor was a president of while serving in the department—will all be named as defendants in her complaint, along with Adams.
Adams dismissed the woman's complaint as a "out‑of‑nowhere lawsuit" and claimed he cannot remember "who this person is or if I ever met them" when he appeared on Friday morning's "Good Music, Good Times" chat program to address the charges.
"I am not sure, but I know exactly how I live my life, and nothing like it has ever happened in my life. In no world did it ever occur. That's not my character. Former New York City Police Department captain Adams, who joined the force in 1995 as a result of a merger with the Transit Police agency, stated, "I would never harm anyone." In 2006, he retired from the force.
In relation to the assault case, the mayor has also verified that the city law department would be his legal counsel.
Democrat and Oversight Committee leader of the Manhattan Council Gale Brewer questioned Adams' ability to retain legal representation, noting that the woman's charges occurred before he was mayor. She tweeted, "This needs scrutiny," in response to the mayor's remarks on the talk program.
Since the matter pertains to Adams' tenure as a municipal employee, he is within his rights to utilize the Law Department, according to a spokesperson from municipal Hall.
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There are many lawsuits that the mayor's accuser has filed. She sued American Airlines in federal court, stating that an employee's carelessness caused her to lose control of her wheelchair and suffer back injuries while on a vacation to Japan. The airline was exempted from paying damages once that lawsuit was abandoned. Additionally, she accused her pupils, one of them was "a 6-year-old," of abusing her while she was a teacher and sued Miami-Dade County for the incident. The court rejected that case.
The woman's book, which "many years spent fighting for myself and others in various courts" (including "small claims, civil, circuit, family, lower appellate, and the United States Supreme Court") is available for purchase on Amazon.com, according to NBC4. In the book's summary, there is the following bit of advice: "Keep going. You might end up winning.
For Adams, the assault lawsuit is a bolt from the blue. His 2021 campaign is under investigation by the FBI on charges that it colluded with the Turkish government to launder illicit foreign funds through anonymous contributors. While the investigation is continuing, Adams has not faced any accusations of misconduct.
