{"id":105096,"date":"2024-04-10T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-attorney-asks-court-to-dismiss-sexual-assault-case\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:00:15","slug":"nyc-mayor-eric-adams-attorney-asks-court-to-dismiss-sexual-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-attorney-asks-court-to-dismiss-sexual-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; attorney asks court to dismiss sexual assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-10\/eric-adams-1-gty-dp-040924_1712695228942_hpMain.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams holds a press availability at a news conference Jan. 08, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; The sexual assault lawsuit against New York Mayor Eric Adams is &#8220;entirely fictitious&#8221; and should be dismissed, his defense attorney Alex Spiro wrote in a new court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Spiro is assisting the city&#8217;s Law Department in defending the mayor, who, as a New York City Police Department captain at the time of the alleged conduct, is eligible for free legal representation from the city.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney set to work Tuesday, filing the answer to a complaint from Lorna Beach-Mathura, who claimed she and Adams were both working for the Transit Bureau in the early 1990s when he allegedly sexually harassed her by driving her to a remote lot, demanding oral sex, exposing himself and forcing her to touch him. Her lawsuit also named the city and the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The allegations of wrongdoing in the Complaint are entirely fictitious, and Defendants expect and are looking forward to their day in court and complete vindication,&#8221; Spiro wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Beach-Mathura, a Florida resident, alleged the abuse by Adams occurred in 1993 after she sought his help with an employment issue. Beach-Mathura has alleged sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, assault and battery and brought the case under the Adult Survivor&#8217;s act, which allowed claims to be brought long after the statute of limitations had lapsed. The mayor has denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This did not happen. It did not happen. I don&#8217;t recall ever meeting this person during my time in the police department,&#8221; Adams said shortly after the lawsuit was filed.<\/p>\n<p>Spiro will charge $250 per hour for work by partners and $175 for work by associates, according to city officials, significantly less than his customary $2,000 per hour rate.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Eric Adams holds a press availability at a news conference Jan. 08, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) &#8212; The sexual assault lawsuit against New York Mayor Eric Adams is &#8220;entirely fictitious&#8221; and should be dismissed, his defense attorney Alex Spiro wrote in a new<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-attorney-asks-court-to-dismiss-sexual-assault-case\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}