The Department of Investigation inquiry focuses on a violent exchange that the adviser, Timothy Pearson, had with security guards at a migrant shelter.
Keechant Sewell walked into Mayor Eric Adams’ office unannounced on Monday and told him she would be leaving. No one but her closest aides saw it coming.
Timothy Pearson, a close friend of Mayor Eric Adams, works both as a senior adviser to the mayor and as a vice president overseeing security at the Resorts World New York City casino in Queens.