{"id":1668331,"date":"2022-10-02T06:52:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668331"},"modified":"2022-10-02T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:52:43","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-is-paying-his-friend-242k-as-an-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-adams-is-paying-his-friend-242k-as-an-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams Is Paying His Friend $242k as an &#8220;Adviser&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-adams-is-paying-his-friend-242k-as-an-adviser%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668331&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>I will confess that I\u2019d had high hopes (okay\u2026 perhaps not \u201chigh\u201d but at least \u201csome\u201d) for New York City Mayor Eric Adams when he came into office. The retired police chief and former Republican ran on a platform of restoring the police and getting the city\u2019s crime levels back under control. The voters rewarded him, leaving his far more progressive primary competitors in the dust. And he has actually put some policies in place that should produce at least modest improvements. But he has also demonstrated disturbing tendencies toward nepotism and gaming the system for his own benefit or that of his friends and donors. The latest example showed up this week when it was revealed that his longtime friend and former police colleague, Timothy Pearson, has been living large on the taxpayer\u2019s dime. Pearson is holding multiple paid positions simultaneously while also drawing his NYPD retirement benefits. One of those positions is listed as being a \u201csenior adviser\u201d to Adams. The Mayor\u2019s office had somehow managed to keep Pearson\u2019s salary a secret for the first four months in the position, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11269109\/NYC-mayor-finally-revealed-paying-buddy-242-000-senior-advisor.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but we now know<\/a> that he is among the highest-paid municipal employees in the city, drawing a salary of more than $240,000 annually. (Daily Mail)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A retired police inspector, who is a close confidant of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, is being paid more than $242,000 by the city \u2013 making him one of its highest-paid employees.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Pearson was put on the payroll of the city\u2019s economic development corporation by Adams on May 31, while retaining his prior job as head of security at the city\u2019s only casino.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to holding the simultaneous positions, he is also vying for one of three newly available, full-scale casino licenses, which would allow it to expand from electronic games to become a full-service casino. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pearson\u2019s salary as an \u201cadvisor\u201d to the Mayor with no official municipal duties brings him only $10K less than deputy mayors receive and just $16K less than the Mayor himself. He is paid far more than other civil servants with far more experience and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>As to his position with the casino, he\u2019s not even one of the executives in charge of the operation. He\u2019s the head of security. And yet he somehow seems to be involved in the process where his employer will be vying for one of only three full-scale casino licenses in New York. And he is very up-close and personal with Hizzoner himself. Isn\u2019t that convenient?<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to think that this was simply some sort of one-off incident of a friend of the Mayor doing remarkably well for himself, but it\u2019s not. Upon taking office, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2022\/01\/28\/nyc-mayor-can-hire-his-brother-but-theres-a-catch-n444709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he tried to name his brother Bernard<\/a> as the Deputy NYPD commissioner with a salary of nearly a quarter million dollars per year. That plan blew up in his face, but he finally named Bernard to be the \u201cSenior Adviser for Mayoral Security.\u201d (Funny how many friends and relatives wind up being \u201csenior advisers,\u201d isn\u2019t it?) But after the appointment, the City Conflict of Interest Board stepped in and said that the brother could only be paid one dollar per year.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Adams appointed another member of his inner circle, Edu Hermelyn, to be the \u201csenior adviser for strategic initiatives\u201d at the Department of Social Services. (There\u2019s that \u201csenior adviser\u201d tag again.) But shortly thereafter it was discovered that Hermelyn wasn\u2019t even eligible for the job because he was also a Democratic Party official in the city. Hermelyn was forced to resign over the conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>We also learned <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2022\/05\/18\/has-new-york-citys-mayor-been-promoting-a-company-to-help-his-friends-n470294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in May of this year<\/a> that Mayor Adams had been heavily lobbying the NYPD to purchase some police equipment that he publicly endorsed. The police didn\u2019t even want the equipment after testing it, but Adams kept up the pressure. It turned out that Adams\u2019 current Chief of Staff and longtime political donor and supporter, Frank Carone, was a major stockholder in the company that makes the equipment and stood to profit handsomely if they were awarded the contract. Isn\u2019t that convenient?<\/p>\n<p>There have simply been too many instances of attempted nepotism and the greasing of the palms of his friends during Adams\u2019 relatively brief time in office to overlook. Adams hasn\u2019t been a Democrat for all that long, but he appears to have quickly embraced many of the worst impulses of his party\u2019s roots in Tammany Hall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will confess that I\u2019d had high hopes (okay\u2026 perhaps not \u201chigh\u201d but at least \u201csome\u201d) for New York City Mayor Eric Adams when he came into office. The retired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1570414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}