- Adams was serving as a captain in the NYPD at the time of alleged assault
- Mayor is already facing harsh scrutiny over his campaign donations
- Female accuser says she worked for the city along with Adams at the time
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City Hall is pushing back against a 1993 sexual assault claim against Mayor Eric Adams, insisting he does not even know his accuser.
The unidentified female accuser filed a summons in civil court late last night, accusing Adams of sexually assaulting her when they were both working for the city. It was first reported by The Messenger.
At the time, Adams was 33 and working as a captain within the NYPD.
Details of the allegations have not yet been made public but a City Hall spokesperson told The New York Post today Adams doesn’t know the woman.
‘If they ever met, he doesn’t recall it,’ they said.
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams at a press briefing in Manhattan last night
‘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 summons – which serves as a notice of a pending lawsuit – reads.
She utilized New York’s Adult Survivors Act to file the summons. The NYPD’s transit bureau and Guardian Association are also named as defendants.
Further details have not yet been made public and Adams, already facing harsh scrutiny for his campaign’s dealings with Turkish officials and associates, has not yet commented.
He was also criticized last week for vast budget cuts to the NYPD that will further reduce the number of officers on the streets by thousands.
Eric Adams pictured in 1993, the year of the alleged assault, when he was 33
