Alex Spiro (Photo by Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Last night, news broke that New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted. And today, a 57-page indictment (available below) was filed by Southern District of New York prosecutors alleging a decade’s worth of corruption. That news has just about everyone talking, and leaves all of us lawyerly types wondering… who’s going to represent him?
Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro has joined the mayor’s legal team. Spiro is no stranger to well-known clients (including Elon Musk, Megan Thee Stallion, and Alec Baldwin) — and even Adams himself. Spiro reps Adams against allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in 1993 (and Adams gave taxpayers the Biglaw bill, arguing since he was a cop at the time of the allegations, the city should foot the, admittedly discounted, bill).
This morning, the FBI searched the mayoral residence, Gracie Mansion, and Spiro was quick to slam the action.
“Federal agents appeared this morning at Gracie Mansion in an effort to create a spectacle (again) and take Mayor Adams phone (again). He has not been arrested and looks forward to his day in court,” Spiro said. “They send a dozen agents to pick up a phone when we would have happily turned it in.”
Adams denied the allegations, saying in a video message last night they’re “entirely false, based on lies. But they would not be surprising. I always knew that If I stood my ground for all of you that I would be a target—and a target I became.”
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