Muriel Goode-Trufant breezed by her Metropolis Council affirmation listening to for the function of the town’s high legal professional on Wednesday, in sharp distinction to the cruel grilling Mayor Adams’ earlier choose for the submit confronted.
Goode-Trufant has been serving within the place as appearing company counsel since June, after Sylvia Hinds-Radix, Adams’ first company counsel, resigned. Adams nominated the Regulation Division veteran to the function in October after the Council rejected lawyer Randy Mastro for the job.
On the Council Guidelines Committee listening to, Goode-Trufant confronted questions on how she would sort out the problem of understaffing on the division and the way she would reply if she refused to do one thing she thought was improper, over which she would possibly really feel compelled to resign in protest.
“Candidly, I have been with the city for 30-plus years; I am Tier 4 [municipal pension plan member], and so I am going to be all right,” Goode-Trufant stated. “What I want to make sure is the Law Department is all right. What I will do from the day I am confirmed, for as long as I am privileged to serve, is to build up the department so they can face whatever challenges come their way.”
The Metropolis Council is required by regulation to verify the nomination for the town’s lawyer, and Goode-Trufant wants a majority of the Council’s 51 members to assist her in a vote. The greater than $250,000-a-year job entails representing the mayor, Council and metropolis companies in litigation.
Randy Mastro, Mayor Eric Adams’ earlier choose to be the town’s subsequent high lawyer, is pictured answering questions from the Metropolis Council throughout a listening to on Tuesday, August 27, 2024. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Each day Information)
Mastro, the mayor’s earlier choose for the submit, confronted a brutal listening to in August as he confronted questions from Council members on his prior function as a high official in Rudy Giuliani’s mayoral administration and his file of representing conservative causes in court docket.
“I was away in another time zone, so I did not have the opportunity to watch it,” Goode-Trufant stated of Mastro’s grilling.
Goode-Trufant obtained a far friendlier reception. Council member Pierina Sanchez expressed an “ability to exhale” at her nomination, and a few members remarked they might be glad to see a lady of coloration elevated to the function.
“I’m glad that after 30 years of distinguished service at the Law Department, you’ll be taking on this top role,” Brooklyn Council member Lincoln Restler stated on the roughly hour-and-a-half listening to.
