New York City Mayor Eric Adams dined with disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday at a local restaurant, according to multiple reports.
The two-hour dinner between the two Democrats took place in a private room at Midtown’s Osteria La Baia restaurant, sources told the New York Post.
“Mayor Adams meets with a lot of former government officials to talk about governance, which is particularly important in these unprecedented times,” Fabian Levy, Adams’s press secretary, told the New York Daily News. “There was nothing political about the conversation, and the mayor stands by his earlier comments that the former governor should have stepped down, as he did.”
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The dinner took place after Adams attended the wake of Wilbert Mora, one of two New York City Police Department officers killed last month in Harlem. Adams spent most of his career prior to becoming mayor in the NYPD along with his brother, Bernard Adams.
New York Attorney General Letitia James released a bombshell report in August that detailed the claims of 11 women who accused Cuomo of sexual harassment. Cuomo denied all allegations of unwanted touching but stepped down that month. He also faced controversy with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic as governor and the alleged cover-up of deaths in nursing homes. But under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department said in July that it was dropping the civil rights inquiry into the nursing homes.
“Why would Eric Adams even think about taking this meeting?” Bill Neidhardt, who was a press secretary to former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, tweeted Wednesday. “Taking policy advice from someone who killed progressive policies is frustrating, but hobnobbing with a serial sexual assaulter is just straight up disgusting.”
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Adams, who took office after the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day, is expected to meet with Biden on Thursday to discuss ways to combat gun violence. Adams ran on a platform last year that emphasized his law enforcement background and promised to help stem the city’s rise in violent crime.
