Nine months before his term expired, Mayor Eric Adams granted Jordan McGraw — the son of TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw — unusual access to trail members of the New York Police Department: on-duty, up-close, cameras rolling.
The plan, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday and sources familiar with it, was for McGraw to develop and market a multi-episode series called “Behind the Badge.”
At the time, the deal was controversial. It was made in Adams’ official capacity as mayor and over the objections of his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, according to two administration officials with knowledge of the project…