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Top aide to NYC Mayor Eric Adams with ‘creepy’ reputation repeatedly sexually harassed NYPD sergeant: suit
Filed two days ago by former cop Roxanne Ludemann, the lengthy 10-count suit accuses Adams aide and senior advisor Timothy Pearson of engaging in a stomach-turning pattern of sexual harassment that…
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Top aide to NYC Mayor Eric Adams with ‘creepy’ reputation repeatedly sexually harassed NYPD sergeant: suit
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Published March 21, 2024, 5:12 p.m. ET
A top aide to Mayor Eric Adams sabotaged the career of an NYPD sergeant who rejected his sexual advances — and was so well known for his pervy proclivities that a department chief refused to leave him alone with any woman on his team, according to a new lawsuit.
Former cop Roxanne Ludemann’s suit accuses Adams senior advisor Timothy Pearson of engaging in a stomach-turning pattern of sexual harassment that included allegedly cornering her in a copy room during a December 2022 office party so he could rub her shoulders.
“[He] would regularly harass [Ludemann] when he saw her … and wanted to make plaintiff his driver in order to gain private access to her to continue to sexually harass [her],” the civil complaint, filed Thursday, states.
7 Retired NYPD Sgt. Roxanne Ludemann has accused Adams’ senior advisor, Timothy Pearson, of sexual harassment in a new lawsuit. John Scola
The suit claimed Pearson’s alleged abuses led to Ludemann being passed over for promotion several times — and eventually, to bogus disciplinary charges brought in retaliation for her complaints, the Manhattan Supreme Court suit said.
This, along with a dearth of overtime pay — which allegedly dried up after she came forward with her accusations — eventually forced the veteran police sergeant of 18 years out of the department in January 2024.