Eric Adams’ top aide slapped with third lawsuit claiming he ‘bragged’ about ‘ability to punish NYPD officers’

A top aide to Mayor Eric Adams has been hit with a third lawsuit, this one claiming that he “liked to brag about his power and his ability to punish NYPD officers.”

The lawsuit filed by NYPD Lt. George Huang on Thursday at the state Supreme Court in Manhattan claimed aide Tim Pearson would regale staffers with stories of how he “took care of” cops who crossed him.

“Each of defendant Pearson’s stories were meant to intimidate the staff and communicate how powerful he was,” according to the court filing, which accuses the city of allowing retaliation and a hostile work environment against Huang.

The lawsuit also named NYPD’s Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and Deputy Inspector at Internal Affairs Bureau Joseph Profeta as defendants.

Huang is the third cop to file a case against Pearson alleging misconduct while working with him.

In April, former cop Roxanne Ludemann filed a stomach churning sexual harassment case against Pearson claiming that he’d come onto her at a December 2022 office party.

Ludemann claimed that because she rebuffed his advances Pearson sabotaged her career.

A month later retired Sgt. Michael Ferrari sued Pearson, claiming that after he backed Ludemann’s allegations that Pearson engineered his transfer into a dead-end job in Queens which forced him to retire.

In the latest case, Huang claimed he was sidelined after he corroborated accusations of sexual harassment against Pearson.

The lawsuit claims he was moved to a midnight shift and “denied types of overtime” while he and his wife grieved the loss of their seven-year-old daughter.

“[Huang confided] in his Commanding Officer that he and his wife had lost their daughter in 2022 and that he was concerned that his wife may harm herself if left alone overnights,” the suit states.

Despite this, Huang remained on the midnight tour because of “his complaints of and objections to sexual harassment” the suit claims.

The court filing also revealed that Huang had been allegedly yelled at by Profeta who “aggressively pound on a desk with his fist” in an effort to intimidate him into changing his testimony about alleged sexual harassment.

The court filings also include claims that the FBI has been conducting interviews about Pearson.

FBI allegedly showed up with an NYPD minder at Huang’s home in February asking if he’d worked with Pearson.

Huang said he did but declined further comment for fear of further retaliation the suit claims.

The accusations stem from when Huang, Ferrari and Ludemann were working at the Municipal Services Assessment Unit — which was then a new unit that sought to make local agencies more efficient.

The MSA was initially overseen by the Deputy Mayor for Public Philip Banks but was taken over by Pearson in October 2022.

The city did not answer specific questions about the lawsuit.

“All three lawsuits have been filed by the same attorney and provided to the same reporter ahead of even filing. We will review the lawsuit,” a spokesperson told the Post.

The NYPD said they would “review the lawsuit if and when we are served.”