Celebrity Lawyer Who Got Alec Baldwin and Elon Musk Off the Hook Called in for Eric Adams Defence

High-powered, high-priced celebrity attorney Alex Spiro—fresh off getting manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin dropped in July—has been called in to join the team of lawyers that will defend New York City mayor Eric Adams against a fresh federal indictment.

Citing sources, the New York Post reported that Spiro—who is already repping Adams in a separate case dealing with decades-old sexual assault allegations—has joined Adams’ defense team in the federal case.

The mayor, somewhat controversially, used city funds to hire Spiro in his sexual assault case, claiming that because he was a New York City cop at the time he has the right to representation by the city (although the city typically doesn’t hire the most expensive, high-profile defense attorneys to defend rank-and-file cops).

Read more at The Daily Beast.