New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of assaulting a woman in 1993, according to a legal summons filed Wednesday.
The three-page filing does not contain details of the alleged assault but names Adams, the transit bureau of the New York Police Department and the New York Police Department Guardians Association as defendants.
“Plaintiff was… assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York,” the summons reads.
The filing seeks a trial and $5 million in relief. It was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The woman’s attorney did not immediately return an emailed request for comment on Thursday.
In remarks to reporters on Thursday, Adams denied assaulting anyone and said he did not remember meeting the woman.
“It absolutely did not happen. I don’t recall ever meeting this person and I would never harm anyone in that magnitude. It did not happen,” Adams said, according to a video posted by a reporter to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “It did not happen, and that is not who I am and that is not who I’ve ever been in my professional life and, you know, it’s just something that never took place.”
It should be noted that the woman who filed this lawsuit has a lengthy history of suing people, and even wrote a book called “How to Sue People and Get Away With It.”
Adams, a Democrat, was a New York City police officer who rose to the rank of captain before entering politics. He served as a state senator and Brooklyn borough president before becoming mayor.
The summons was filed under the Adult Survivors Act, a special New York law that has cleared the way for a wave of lawsuits against famous men accused of inappropriate conduct. The law has led to more than 2,500 lawsuits, including a case against former President Donald Trump.
The filing comes as Adams has been dogged by an FBI investigation into his 2021 campaign that prompted agents to seize his phones and raid the home of his chief campaign fundraiser.
The New York Times and New York Post have reported that part of the investigation involves examining whether Adams inappropriately tried to help the government of Turkey get city approval to open a 35-story skyscraper housing diplomatic facilities in 2021, despite concerns about the tower’s fire safety systems.
Adams has sidestepped questions about the FBI investigation but has maintained he did nothing wrong.
(AP)
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When a man is accused of a crime that allegedly happened 30 years ago, it is nearly impossible for him to prove his innocence, even if he really is innocent, because 30 years later, any witnesses that could have proved his innocence are likely: dead, or in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s Disease, or moved to far-away places, or simply cannot remember facts that happened 30 years ago, or are now married with a new name (and therefore cannot be found).
30 years later, any evidence that could have proved his innocence was thrown in the garbage or lost, or deleted, a very long time ago.
I humbly suggest a 7-year statute of limitations for most crimes (like we used to have, before the world went crazy).
No one will ever really know what Mayor Adams did 30 years ago, but the most important thing is that women who are harassed or raped should report it IMMEDIATELY and not wait many years to accuse some one of rape.