A new lawsuit against New York City Mayor Eric Adams alleges that during his time on the police force in the ’90s he demanded sexual favors from a colleague in exchange for help with a job issue.

Adams’ accuser, Lorna Beach-Mathura, says she had been repeatedly passed over for promotions and experienced “resistance all-too-frequently faced by Black and female NYPD … employees in that era.” Adams at the time served as a leader in the Transit NYPD Guardians division, so she sought him out for his help.

“Instead of helping Plaintiff get fair treatment at the Defendant Transit Bureau, Defendant Adams preyed on her perceived vulnerability, demanding a quid pro quo sexual favor and sexually assaulting Plaintiff, revealing himself not to be the ‘Guardian’ he purported to be, but a predator,” the lawsuit states.

A lawyer for the New York City Corporation Counsel, Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, called the allegations “ludicrous.” 

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“While we review the complaint, the mayor fully denies these outrageous allegations and the events described here; we expect full vindication in court. Additionally, in 1993, Eric Adams was one of the most prominent public opponents of the racism within the NYPD, which is why the suit’s allegations that he had any sway over promotions of civilian employees is ludicrous,” she said. 

According to the lawsuit, Beach-Mathura learned in the fall of 2023 that New York had passed a law allowing survivors of sexual assault to come forward years after an attack and thus felt compelled to bring Adams’ “behavior to light.”

She alleges that Adams said he would help her with an employment problem but instead drove her alone to a vacant lot and requested oral sex from her, which she rejected. He continued to sexually assault her, according to the suit.

When Adams ran for mayor, Beach-Mathura said she found his comments on the campaign trail “hypocritical and sanctimonious.”

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Beach-Mathura said in the lawsuit that Adams initially was going to pick her up and give her a ride home to Coney Island to talk. Once in the car, she realized instead that he was headed to an area near the Hudson River, which made her “nervous and scared.” 

“Plaintiff was frightened not only due to Defendant Adams’ appalling conduct, but also because she knew that he, as a police officer, had at least one loaded gun in the car,” the lawsuit says.

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The lawsuit alleges Adams exposed himself and begged Beach-Mathura to perform oral sex and placed her hand on his genitals. When she refused, he masturbated in front of her, per the lawsuit. 

Beach-Mathura also says Adams told her he needed to get back to work, drove her to a subway station in Manhattan and dropped her off there. 

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She alleges Adams never helped her with the employment issue and that she eventually left city government in 1994. She now lives in Florida, where she has worked as a public school teacher.

South Korean actress Jeon Jong-seo threw out the first pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers’ exhibition baseball game against the Kiwoom Heroes on Sunday and appeared to make a mark.

Jeon wore a Dodgers jersey and high baseball socks as she took the mound at the Gocheok Sky Dome. The broadcast turned to the Dodgers’ dugout and showed several players smiling and giggling as Jeon finished the first pitch.

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She then posed with a Dodgers player on the mound before the game started.

The 29-year-old was thrust into fame with her performance in “Burning.” She won best actress for her performance in “Burning” and “The Call” at the Baeksang Arts Awards. She was also nominated for best actress in the Asian Film Awards for her role in “The Call.”

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Los Angeles then shellacked Kiwoom 14-3.

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Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was 3-for-6 with a home run and two runs scored. Jason Heyward was 3-for-5 with four RBI.

Right-handed pitcher Michael Grove started the game. He went two innings and struck out four. Alex Vesia, Ryan Brasier, Daniel Hudson, Joe Kelly, Evan Phillips and Kyle Hurt also made appearances.

Los Angeles’ regular season will get underway in South Korea. The team has a two-game set with the San Diego Padres as part of the Seoul Series. The games begin Wednesday and Thursday at 6:05 a.m. ET.

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The Dodgers then wrap up spring training starting with a three-game series Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels before embarking on their home opener — a four-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals.

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A Denver judge awarded a 78-year-old grandmother $4 million in damages after a botched SWAT raid that relied almost exclusively on Apple’s Find My iPhone software.

Jurors concluded that Denver Police Department officers violated the state constitution by hastily seeking a search warrant of Ruby Johnson’s home without a proper investigation, wrote the ACLU of Colorado, which filed the lawsuit on Johnson’s behalf against Detective Gary Staab and Sgt. Gregory Buschy.

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On Jan. 4, 2022, Johnson was watching TV when she heard a loudspeaker blaring outside her home in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood. Police ordered anyone in the house to come out with their hands raised.

Johnson walked out her front door wearing a bathrobe, bonnet and slippers, stunned at the sight of an armored vehicle parked on her lawn. Officers with rifles and a K9 flanked her property. 

“I didn’t want them coming in there shooting,” she previously told 9NEWS. “I came out, and then they asked me, ‘Do you have a gun on you?’ I said, ‘No, why would I have a gun on me?’”

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Police were looking for a pickup truck and guns that had been stolen the previous day from a Denver hotel parking garage, according to the lawsuit and 9NEWS. Police had obtained a warrant to search Johnson’s house based on pings from the Find My app on an iPhone that had been left in the pickup.

Apple’s Find My app uses information from Wi-Fi, GPS and cellular networks to determine the approximate location of people and their devices, the lawsuit states. Staab’s affidavit included a screenshot of the app with a circle spanning “at least six different properties” where the phone could be, according to the suit.

Staab improperly obtained the warrant because he didn’t mention the limitations of Apple’s Find My technology, which is “readily available” online, according to the suit. The filing characterized the detective’s affidavit as “hastily prepared, bare-bones, materially misleading” work.

Johnson sat in the back of a police car for hours while officers searched her house, causing unnecessary damage, according to the lawsuit. She told police where her garage door opener was, but instead they used a battering ram to break the door and its frame, the suit states.

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Police also damaged the inside of her home, including breaking the head off of a cherished doll figurine customized to look just like Johnson and using the handle of a kitchen broom to smash up the ceiling so they could search the attic, according to the suit.

Earlier this month, jurors determined that Staab and Buschy acted “with willful and wanton disregard” for Johnson’s constitutional protection from unreasonable search and seizure, the ACLU of Colorado wrote. They originally awarded Johnson $1.26 million in compensatory damages and $2.5 million in punitive damages.

Last week, Denver District Judge Stephanie Scoville increased the award to an even $4 million, the ACLU of Colorado told Fox News.

The case is the first to be litigated under a provision of a sweeping police reform bill passed in Colorado in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, according to the ACLU. The new law gave citizens a right to sue individual officers for state constitutional violations where, previously, those alleging police misconduct had to sue in federal court where the legal doctrine of qualified immunity often shields government officials from liability.

“This is a small step toward justice for Ms. Johnson, but it is a critical case under our state’s Constitution, for the first time affirming that police can be held accountable for invading someone’s home without probable cause,” wrote Tim Macdonald, ACLU of Colorado legal director.

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The Denver Police Department declined to comment on the jury verdict. A spokesperson told Fox News in an email that an internal review of the incident resulted in no formal discipline for the officers and no change in search warrant policies.

“The officers were acting based on a search warrant that was approved and signed by the District Attorney’s Office and a judge,” the spokesperson wrote.

The SWAT raid destroyed Johnson’s sense of security in her own home, according to the ACLU.

“Though the outcome of this trial will not fully undo the harm of that fateful day, it puts us one step closer to justice for her and others who have found their lives turned upside down because of police misconduct,” ACLU of Colorado Executive Director Deborah Richardson wrote in a statement.

Former President Trump has not been able to secure a $464 million appeal bond he needs following a New York civil fraud judgment against him, his attorneys say.

In a court filing Monday, his lawyers said obtaining one is a “practical impossibility under the circumstances presented.”

In late February, a New York Appeals Court judge denied Trump’s request to delay payment of the $464 million owed as a result of Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, but said he will temporarily allow the 2024 front-runner and his sons to continue running their business during the appeals process.

Trump and his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were barred earlier that month from operating their business in New York for a range of two to three years. Trump was also found liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in the civil fraud case brought against him, his family and the Trump Organization by James.

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The filing Monday says “ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is ‘a practical impossibility.’”

“These diligent efforts have included approaching about 30 surety companies through 4 separate brokers,” the filing says. “A bond requirement of this enormous magnitude – effectively requiring cash reserves approaching $1 billion … is unprecedented for a private company.”

It also says that “waiving the bond requirement will impose no cognizable harm on the Attorney General. The case involves no actual victims and no award of restitution, and she is fully protected by Defendants’ real-estate holdings. This factor alone warrants a stay.”

“The Court should stay the judgment pending appeal, and put the brakes on the Attorney General’s overzealous litigation crusade,” Trump’s lawyers also argued. “If oral argument would assist the Court in coming to that conclusion, we respectfully request an opportunity for such a hearing.”

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His attorneys also said, “The practical impossibility of obtaining a bond interferes with Defendants’ right to appeal and threatens this Court’s appellate jurisdiction.”

“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” they added. “The remaining handful will not “accept hard assets such as real estate as collateral,” but “will only accept cash or cash equivalents (such as marketable securities).”

Trump Campaign Spokesman Steven Cheung later said in a statement that “This is a motion to stay the unjust, unconstitutional, un-American judgment from New York Judge Arthur Engoron in a political Witch Hunt brought by a corrupt Attorney General. 

“A bond of this size would be an abuse of the law, contradict bedrock principals of our Republic, and fundamentally undermine the rule of law in New York,” he added. “President Trump will continue fighting and beating all of these Crooked Joe Biden-directed hoaxes and will Make America Great Again.”

A New York Appeals Court judge previously ruled that the former president must post a bond for the full amount of the judgment and that an independent director of compliance will be appointed.  

That ruling comes after Engoron handed down his decision earlier in February after a months-long trial beginning in October in which the former president was accused of inflating his assets and committing fraud in financial documents.

Engoron ruled that Trump and other defendants were liable for “persistent and repeated fraud,” “falsifying business records,” “issuing false financial statements,” “conspiracy to falsify false financial statements,” “insurance fraud” and “conspiracy to commit insurance fraud.”

“In a massive victory, we won our case against Donald Trump for engaging in years of incredible financial fraud to enrich himself. Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and his former executives must pay over $450 million in disgorgement and interest,” James wrote on X, celebrating on the same day of the judgment.

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On Feb. 23, James, who has denied having a “personal vendetta” against Trump despite remarks suggesting otherwise, posted flatly, “$464,576,230.62.” 

Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

Mira Sorvino was overcome with emotions while recalling how Harvey Weinstein had a negative impact on her career after she rejected his unwanted advances.

During a panel discussion at 90s Con over the weekend, Sorvino remembered soaring in popularity after winning an Oscar for her role in the 1996 film “Mighty Aphrodite.”

“For a time, I had a lot of wonderful offers and then, my career was stifled by Harvey Weinstein,” Sorvino said. “So, I stopped doing [major] studio movies after 1998.”

Sorvino was a catalyst in the #MeToo movement and claimed Weinstein first propositioned her at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1995.

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“When I was nominated versus won, there were clauses in my contracts that were present at the time that ‘if she wins, she gets this.’ But I definitely got more money because I made $10,000 for the film I won the Oscar for. I moved into a different echelon at that point,” she said.

“For me, it was definitely an upgrade in terms of scripts being offered, but I was basically not known before. I mean, it was my 10th film, but I wasn’t a household name. I had some press on a few different projects, like ‘Quiz Show’ and ‘Barcelona,’ but people didn’t really know who I was. So it turned me through that Oscar season into a known actress rather than an unknown actress.”

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She remembered receiving incredible offers following her win at the Academy Awards, but suddenly everything began slowing down.

Sorvino was overcome with emotion and apologized to the crowd before noting that in 1998 she “rejected him the third time.”

It was only years later that Sorvino noticed the repercussions of holding her boundaries had a major impact on her livelihood in the entertainment industry. 

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“I stopped being a viable movie actress,” she said. “I still did indies and I still did television, but that was very hard.”

Sorvino “didn’t know at the time what was happening,” but she was allegedly no longer receiving offers or roles despite her status as an award-winning actress. 

“It became, you know, a sort of feeling like fate was just not going on my side, but it was going to be just a matter of time till I was gonna get back my status,” she said.

“But then, I got married. I became a mother. I became a U.N. goodwill ambassador in human trafficking, [which has] just been a huge part of my life. It’s a position I’ve held since 2009, officially. But yeah, my family. My family is my everything and I don’t see my worth as being a famous actress. I see my worth as being a good person.”

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Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault in 2020, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York. He’s currently waiting for a ruling on his appeal, which was argued last month.

Three years later, a Los Angeles court found Weinstein guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison – a ruling his legal team has also vowed to appeal.

Fellow panelist Susan Sarandon noted during Sorvino’s discussion, “I don’t think people talk enough about the people who facilitated the Harvey Weinsteins of the world that are still functioning, that are equally responsible, that knew when they were sending people to a hotel, who didn’t pay attention when someone complained.”

She continued, “Sexualization is like a mainstay of this business. So it’s very confusing to be, you know, a young girl and know that they’re checking on your viability, according to how sexy you are. You know that, right? You do know that there’s something going on.

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“They call it a chemistry thing or whatever they want to call it. But that is part of what you’re bringing to the table. Whether you like that or not, that exists. There was this big flourish of this whole thing and then Harvey Weinstein, thank God, was punished against all odds. But I don’t think we’ve done the cleanup afterwards that we should be doing.”

Former President Barack Obama met with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday, just hours after a report came out about a rivalry between Obama and President Biden.

The Monday meeting was Obama’s first in-person meeting with Sunak since he became prime minister. Obama was only spotted when he was leaving Sunak’s residence Monday afternoon. He said only that it was a “courtesy visit” made while conducting other business in London.

The meeting comes less than a day after a report detailing a decadelong rivalry between Obama, Biden and their aides.

Biden aides have complained that “Obama and his team did not fully appreciate Biden’s experience with foreign policy, Congress and grip-and-grin politicking — and were disrespectful,” Axios reported this weekend.

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“The Obama people thought Biden would suck as president,” one former Biden aide told Axios. “They didn’t think he’d be organized enough to execute.”

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“We do have too many Obama people who don’t care about Joe Biden. It’s about them,” a former White House official said.

“When people say, ‘This is what worked for Obama,’ their first response is often, ‘We’re not Obama,'” a “senior Democrat” reportedly said, referring to Biden’s staff.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates denied that the relationship between Biden and Obama was at all frayed in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying that Biden has not taken potshots at Obama in private.

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“We recognize that the actual level of drama in this White House is insufficient to meet some reporting quotas, but President Biden does not make such comments in private,” Bates said. “As President Biden has said, President Obama is family to him.”

Bates described Obama and Biden as having a close “personal bond” and agreeing “overwhelmingly on the issues facing the country, including building an economy that works from the bottom-up and middle-out, protecting our critical freedoms, and opposing attacks on our democracy.”

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A spokesperson for the Office of President Barack Obama told Fox News Digital in a statement that the Obama Alumni Association hosted an event for Biden’s re-election campaign, during which attendees chanted, “Fired up, ready to go,” in support of the president.

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Kate Middleton was reportedly seen out and about with Prince William near their home in Windsor, but hours went by before any photographic evidence was released, which continued the ongoing rumors and speculation about what is going on with the princess.

U.K. newspaper The Sun, as well as TMZ, released video of Middleton and Prince William visiting Windsor Farm Shop, which is a mile from her Adelaide Cottage residence.

The Sun reported that witnesses said the Princess of Wales looked “happy, relaxed and healthy,” accompanied by her husband.

It was reportedly a family day, as the couple watched their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis do sports activities, but they were not present at the farm shop.

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The palace did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

While the reporting indicates all is well with Middleton, the initial lack of photos cast even more doubt on the situation.

Royal broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard told Fox News Digital, “I believe it is more than possible that the Princess of Wales was spotted on a short trip, however the lack of definite updates is extremely unusual, and I can see that this is adding fuel to the conspiracy theorists’ fire and triggering a further sense of mistrust with the court of public opinion.”

Chard noted at the time that none of her sources had a definite confirmation of the sighting either.

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Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner told Fox News Digital, “Alleged sightings of a happy William and Kate at a farm shop abound, but no visual evidence has only fueled speculation further.”

Given that the outing was a local one, British royals expert Hilary Fordwich thinks the community was willing to keep the outing more private.

“Somewhat circumspect there wasn’t even one photo from the Windsor Farm shop sighting, albeit one hopes that was due to respect from the locals, with whom she is held in most high regard,” she told Fox News Digital.

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Before seeing video of the royal couple out and about, British broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti told Fox News Digital he doubted the outing even occurred. 

“I think the chances of this being anything real are very slim,” he said. “The rumor mill seems to be on overdrive. I think people are getting very carried away with all this and need to move on.”

This outing is Middleton’s first visit to a public place since her abdominal surgery in January.

Earlier this month, she was spotted for the first time since the surgery in a car with her mom, Carole Middleton.

She was also photographed in a car last week with Prince William, a few days after the now infamous photo editing scandal blew up. 

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Middleton isn’t expected to return for royal duties until Easter at the earliest.

The status of her health and whereabouts has been under scrutiny since she was last seen in public around Christmas. 

“This has become the most confusing time with intrigue, rumor, allegations with spin coming from the Palace and counter spin coming from across the world, regarding what is really happening with the royal family,” Pelham Turner said.

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“I have never known such a tsunami of royal upheaval ever in my time with the royals, it has now become so bad that I wake up every couple of hours to check my phone to see if anything has been sneaked out under the cover of darkness.”

The palace’s cryptic approach has also led people to speculate that King Charles’ health is more serious than previously indicated as well.

Pelham Turner said he has been informed that “there will be a major announcement regarding the royal family over the next 72 hours and this I am being informed is about King Charles.”

Whatever the news, Chard believes the palace cannot continue their current approach to providing information to the public.

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“There needs to be a total overhaul of palace procedure as the general public are worried and now mistrusting of royal news,” she said. “People want timely factual updates along with current imagery. Widespread speculation is seriously undermining our industrious royal family.”