NYC Mayor's Legal Defense Fund Fires Donor After He Tells Reporter To "Go Suck Some Dick Somewhere"

One of Mayor Eric Adams’ fundraising entities on Wednesday fired the security and private investigative firm run by longtime friend and donor Bo Dietl shortly after Dietl berated a POLITICO reporter. Dietl’s company was hired to vet donors to Adams’ legal defense trust — a fundraising entity to help pay legal bills connected to a federal probe into Adams’ 2021 mayoral campaign. In January, the organization paid Dietl’s firm just under $13,000. When asked for comment Wednesday afternoon about the services he was paid to perform for the trust, Dietl...