Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday came to the defense of his top aide Tim Pearson, who was accused of sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed last week — saying that
filed last week — saying that he deserves “due process,” while declining to address the specifics of the case., brought last Thursday by former NYPD officer Roxanne Ludemann, alleges that Pearson made numerous inappropriate comments to her and often touched her without consent while she worked under him in a recently established mayoral office. She also charged that Pearson blocked her career advancement after she rejected his advances, driving her to an early retirement.
“In this country there’s something called due process and that due process does not change,” Adams told reporters. “Due process is the cornerstone of our country. That is what Tim Pearson did for a great deal of time, ensure people had due process. And as a person who was in the Trade Center when the buildings collapsed and saved a great deal of people in guiding them out and protecting this city for the amount of time he has, I think he is due due process.
“My counsel is very clear: ‘Don’t get engaged in these conversations, let the system do its job,’” he said. Ludemann alleges Pearson asked her several times to become his driver, she believed to have unfettered private access to continue to sexually harass her.
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