Eric Adams grows legal team as defense costs mount

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 in a Sept. 12 letter to federal prosecutors as part of an unsuccessful attempt to stave off Adams’ indictment.The embattled mayor has hired Spiro’s firm Quinn Emanuel to join WilmerHale as the second high-powered law firm representing him in the case related to alleged travel perks and campaign cash from Turkey that led to Adams’ indictment last week. Adams faces another three known federal investigations plus a decades-old sexual assault claim. Meanwhile, the city’s 800-attorney Law Department is representing Adams in the assault case, along with Spiro.On Monday, filings revealed that two new Quinn Emanuel lawyers had joined Adams’ defense: William Burck, a veteran lawyer known for representing Republican politicians, and Avi Perry, a former federal prosecutor who joined the firm last year.It’s not unusual for a public official under fire to bring on multiple firms for their defense. But the addition of a new high-profile law firm promises more considerable costs for the mayor, who has already paid out $878,000 to WilmerHale for representing him since November the probe by the Southern District of New York. Those payments have come from a legal defense fund that Adams created to... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

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Eric Carle to write first book in four years for Puffin

Written By: Charlotte Williams Puffin is to publish a new picture book by The Very Hungry Caterpillar author Eric Carle, his first in four years. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse will be published in October 2011, in a global, simultaneous publication with Philomel, a Penguin Young Readers... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish's How To Write a Sentence.

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