When Eric Ulrich asked then-Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina to consider hiring his friend’s daughter for an open position in February 2022, Molina said he set up a meeting that same week.
Ulrich, then a senior adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, called Molina to recommend the daughter of his friend Michael Mazzio, according to a recording played in court on Friday. By the end of Molina’s one-on-one “exploratory conversation” with the recent college graduate, Mazzio’s daughter had a conditional job offer for an entry-level analyst position.
“She had the job if she wanted it,” Molina testified in court Friday…