By Graham Rayman, December 5, 2023
“City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams called for an investigation Tuesday into allegations that Correction Commissioner Louis Molina and aides obstructed inquiries into violence at New York City jails by a court-appointed federal monitor and the city Department of Investigation.
“The commissioner’s alleged involvement in a campaign to cover up violence in the jails would be a betrayal of his duties and raise more serious questions about his recent appointment to be an assistant deputy mayor,” said Adams in a joint statement with Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, chair of the Committee on Criminal Justice.
“These serious and deeply troubling allegations of misconduct deserve thorough investigations by all relevant authorities.”
Adams’ comments come on the heels of claims by a Correction Department official, former Associate Deputy Commissioner of Investigations Ruben Benitez, that Molina ordered him to withhold information from the court-appointed monitor and to not cooperate with the city Department of Investigation.”