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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration wants to stop representing Eric Adams in a lawsuit<\/a> that alleges the former mayor sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades ago, according to a court filing Tuesday. <\/p>\n The move comes just a few months after Mamdani took office, following a bitter campaign season last year that had the two Democrats taking turns bashing each other in often caustic and personal terms. <\/p>\n The suit, filed while Adams was still in office<\/a>, accuses the former mayor of sexually assaulting a woman, Lorna Beach-Mathura, in 1993 when he was a police officer, alleging that he demanded a sexual favor in exchange for his help in advancing her career in the police department. Adams has vehemently denied the allegation and said he does not remember meeting her.<\/p>\n The Associated Press does not typically identify alleged victims of sexual assault in stories unless they consent to being named, as Beach-Mathura has done through her attorney.<\/p>\n In a statement, Todd Shapiro, a spokesperson for Adams, said the former mayor \u201cremains confident that the facts will ultimately prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n The motion from the city\u2019s corporation counsel to withdraw from the civil case argues that Adams is not entitled to city-funded legal support because he was \u201cnot acting within the scope of his City employment\u201d at the time of the alleged assault.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Mamdani said Tuesday that the move was \u201cmade independently by the Corporation Counsel, as is required by law\u201d and that the mayor \u201cdid not direct the Corporation Counsel to undertake this review, nor did he instruct the Corporation Counsel to reach a particular determination.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, Mayor Mamdani has full faith and confidence in the Corporation Counsel\u2019s independent judgment and in his ability to reach the appropriate and just legal conclusions,\u201d said the spokesperson, Dora Pekec. <\/p>\n Nevertheless, there has been no love lost between Mamdani and Adams. <\/p>\n Adams \u2014 who bowed out of last year’s Democratic primary following a federal corruption case that was ultimately dismissed after an extraordinary intervention<\/a> from the Trump administration \u2014 ran for reelection as an independent, casting Mamdani as an out-of-touch liberal child of privilege.<\/p>\n Mamdani, meanwhile, sought to frame Adams as a corrupt leader whose warm relationship with the Trump administration compromised his ability to serve the city. <\/p>\n Adams eventually withdrew from the race altogether, endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s candidacy, but he amped up his attacks against Mamdani in a bid to halt the young progressive’s political rise. At one point, Adams appeared to suggest without explanation that a terror attack could become more likely in the city if Mamdani was elected. <\/p>\n