Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/nyregion/rudy-giuliani-eric-adams-investigation-ny.html
Two days after Rudy Giuliani claimed a worker had assaulted him at a Staten Island supermarket, the once-vaunted former mayor was spending Tuesday morning like many men his age: complaining about his aches and pains.
“My shoulder hurts like hell and I’ve got a big lump on the back,” he said, smiling incongruously as he spoke to an audience of reporters and supporters in a Facebook broadcast from an indeterminate location. “And I don’t complain.”
Despite the video that quickly emerged showing that the supermarket worker in question had merely tapped Mr. Giuliani on the back, and despite a Staten Island prosecutor’s decision to reduce the charges against the man from a felony to misdemeanors, Mr. Giuliani held fast to his narrative: He was attacked, the city has gone to seed, and only his son, a candidate for governor with scant relevant experience, could make New Yorkers safe again.
On Tuesday, Eric Adams, the current mayor of New York City, said prosecutors should now turn their attention to Mr. Giuliani for falsely reporting a crime.
“I think the district attorney, he has the wrong person that he’s investigating,” Mr. Adams said during a media availability in Harlem. “To falsely report a crime is a crime. If that video wasn’t there, then this person would have been charged with punching the former mayor.”
Mr. Adams said he was speaking with the police commissioner, Keechant Sewell, about whether Mr. Giuliani’s actions were criminal. A spokesman for Michael McMahon, the Staten Island district attorney, declined to comment.
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