The hurricane ate my records!
That’s what city lawyers told a former NYPD worker suing Mayor Eric Adams for sexual assault, claiming that Hurricane Sandy wiped out Adam’s personnel records in 2012.
Lorna Beach-Mathura, the former department employee accusing Adams of assaulting her over three decades ago, had requested records and documents to disprove claims by Adams that the pair never worked together.
City attorneys told ex-NYPD official Lorna Beach-Mathura, who is suing Mayor Eric Adams for sexual assault, that Hurricane Sandy wiped out Adams’ personnel records in 2012. Paul Martinka
“All physical personnel records and employment folders maintained for Defendant Adams were destroyed when the Kingsland Avenue warehouse suffered extensive damage from flooding during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012,” city attorney Maxwell Leighton wrote of the Greenpoint storage facility back in May.
The letter, filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, came nearly a year after Beach-Mathura’s legal