In a lawsuit filed on Monday, a former employee of the NYPD Transit Bureau accused Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting her more than three decades ago.
Florida resident Lorna Beach-Mathura alleges that Adams exposed himself to her in 1993 after she sought his help with an employment issue. At the time, Adams worked as a transit officer and was a leader in the agency’s Guardians Association, a fraternal organization for Black employees that Beach-Mathura also belonged to. The NYPD and the Guardians Association are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
On Monday, Adams denied the claims made in the lawsuit through his legal counsel. “While we review the complaint, the mayor fully denies these outrageous allegations and the events described here; we expect full vindication in court,” Sylvia Hinds-Radix, the city’s corporation counsel said in a statement.
In the suit, Beach-Mathura states that when she was hired at the Transit Bureau as........