(This content was created with the help of AI.) New York’s current mayor is cutting a key lifeline for the city’s former one. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has asked a court to let it withdraw city-funded lawyers for ex-Mayor Eric Adams in a sexual assault lawsuit, citing what Corporation Counsel Steve Banks called “new evidence” that means Adams is no longer entitled to taxpayer-backed defense, Politico reports.
Adams is accused of assaulting former transit police colleague Lorna Beach-Mathura in his car in 1993, when they both worked for the New York City Transit Police and he was a leading figure in the NYPD Guardians Association.
He has denied the allegation and has said he did not know the plaintiff…