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.”
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
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of
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Jabot
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and
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of
Thinking
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