Mayor Eric Adams’ administration went on the offensive Tuesday as he prepares to nominate Randy Mastro, an attorney with a long and controversial career, to be the city’s top lawyer.Despite opposition by the City Council, Adams’ administration has confirmed it is considering Mastro, a partner at King & Spalding and former deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani, to replace Syliva Hinds-Radix as the city’s corporation counsel. But members of the City Council, who could reject his nomination, have begun voicing objections about Mastro’s work, which has included representing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the “Bridgegate” scandal, helping Chevron avoid paying a $9 billion pollution fine — and, currently, representing New Jersey in its lawsuit against congestion pricing.But Adams mounted a defense of Mastro during a press conference on Tuesday, calling it “a slippery slope to go after attorneys for representing their clients.”The job of corporation counsel is rarely the subject of political squabbling, and it’s unusual for the controversy to play out so publicly before a nominee has even been announced. But the dayslong debate adds another chapter to the mayor’s sometimes-messy dealings with the City Council, which included lawmakers overriding Adams’ vetoes of two public safety bills in January.Trying to reframe the Mastro debate, Adams’ chief counsel Lisa Zornberg talked up the attorney’s qualifications during Tuesday’s press conference. Zornberg, who advises the mayor... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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The 53 honorees on our list of Notable Leaders in Health Care work tirelessly across the industry to ensure the wellbeing of New Yorkers and the city overall. Here are five leaders that serve the city's hospitals, insurance companies and social services safety-net. Read the full list... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Police investigation into writer’s alleged tweet has sparked a debate over free speech, albeit a somewhat selective one There are few columnists with whom I disagree more than I do with the Daily Telegraph’s Allison Pearson. Yet, I welcome the decision by the police to drop their investigation... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Police were advised there was no chance of conviction against journalist after hate crime investigation, Guardian understandsEssex police have dropped their hate crime investigation into Allison Pearson, the Daily Telegraph columnist visited by police after she wrongly accused people of colour... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The Telegraph journalist sent a deeply offensive and inaccurate tweet. Yet she has won the support of a swath of newspapers, an ex-PM – and Elon MuskThe Allison Pearson saga is nothing if not a morality tale about the modern media. Among its many learnings are that calling a group of people of... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Somewhere along the way Pearson lost her sense of humour and now finds herself at the centre of a stormWe need to talk about Allison.Thirty years ago Allison Pearson was an award-winning TV critic for the Independent. Funny and sharp. About as close to a bleeding heart north London liberal as... Continue reading at The Guardian
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PM’s comments come as controversy continues about investigation into Telegraph columnist’s deleted tweetWhat is the Allison Pearson ‘racist’ tweet incident all about?Responding to tweets should not be the police’s first priority and forces should “concentrate on what matters most to their... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Force says Telegraph writer accused of inciting racial hatred, rather than committing a non-crime hate incident as she had claimedEssex police have defended their decision to investigate the Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson over a social media post, saying she is accused of “inciting racial... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Exclusive: Person who complained tells Guardian that columnist’s ‘Jew haters’ post was inflammatoryDaily Telegraph readers have woken up this week to successive front-page headlines alleging a grave threat to free speech, triggered by a star columnist’s “Kafkaesque” encounter with police.The... Continue reading at The Guardian
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At last, competency trumped loyalty.Mayor Eric Adams this week elevated Maria Torres-Springer — a deeply experienced public servant with allies in the business, real estate and nonprofit communities — to the number-two job at City Hall. The move elicited a collective sigh of relief that some... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Actor Adam Pearson feels disfigurement onscreen is often presented as a problem. He sees it very differently. He talks about karaoke in Croydon, rivalry with his twin, Oscar ambitions – and why his mum refuses to believe he’s famousAdam Pearson has a longstanding argument with his mother,... Continue reading at The Guardian
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First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright is expected to leave Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, the New York Post and other outlets reported Friday, making her the highest-ranking City Hall official to depart in the wake of the mayor’s criminal indictment and the federal investigations that have... Continue reading at Crains New York
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New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks will step down on Oct. 16, months earlier than he had previously planned to, City Hall disclosed late Wednesday.The unexpected move may deepen questions about the reasons for Banks’ departure, which comes after his phones were seized by federal agents... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Eric Adams stood alone in City Hall on Tuesday and tried to project confidence in his imperiled mayoralty as he answered in-depth questions for the first time since his federal corruption indictment.Adams was not seated at a table surrounded by his usual phalanx of deputy mayors, and instead... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Tim Pearson, a powerful aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was embroiled in multiple scandals during a tumultuous tenure in City Hall, announced his resignation late Monday.Pearson, a former colleague of the mayor’s in the police department, wielded significant power over the NYPD and contracts... Continue reading at Crains New York
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When Alex Spiro, an attorney for Mayor Eric Adams, filed a motion on Monday to dismiss the federal bribery charge against him, it was not the first time that one of the mayor’s lawyers had made such an argument. A different set of attorneys, from the firm WilmerHale, made many of the same claims... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Anyone who lived within 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of the derailment can get up to $70,000 per household for property damage plus up to $25,000 per person for health problems. A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $600 million class-action settlement Wednesday that Norfolk Southern railroad... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Chip Pearson, already a board member at When I Work, will step into the lead executive role after the company's former CEO left after less than two years. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Federal agents searched the homes of multiple senior officials in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, including Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Deputy Mayors Sheena Wright and Philip Banks, according to people familiar with the matter.Investigators also seized the phones of officials... Continue reading at Crains New York
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City Council members signaled that they may reject Mayor Eric Adams’ pick to be the city’s top lawyer as they laid into the nominee, Randy Mastro, during a tense confirmation hearing on Tuesday that was ongoing as of midafternoon.Mastro, a prominent and accomplished attorney, faced hours of... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Mayor Eric Adams nominated the accomplished but controversial attorney Randy Mastro to be the city’s top lawyer on Tuesday, defying expected opposition from the City Council.Mastro, currently a partner at King & Spalding, is a former federal prosecutor who held senior roles in Mayor Rudy... Continue reading at Crains New York
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