The close confidant who New York City Mayor Eric Adams put on the payroll of the city’s economic development corporation earlier this year is earning more than $242,000 in salary — making him among the highest paid employees in city government, according to city records and documents released late Friday afternoon.
Timothy Pearson, a retired police inspector who was already drawing a New York Police Department pension, was hired by the New York City Economic Development Corporation on May 31, while retaining his prior job as head of security at the city’s only casino.
But in July and August, aides to Mr. Adams refused to disclose Mr. Pearson’s city salary — information that is typically public — in response to inquiries from The New York Times.
The figures released on Friday in response to a freedom of information request show that Mr. Pearson earns only a few hundred dollars less than the chief executive of the agency that pays his salary.
Andrew Kimball, the president and chief executive officer of the economic development corporation, who earlier also declined to answer questions about Mr. Pearson’s salary, earns $243,170, the records show, slightly more than Mr. Pearson's salary of $242,600.
The organization’s chief operating officer, Melissa Burch, whose LinkedIn profile shows she had nearly two decades of experience in the real-estate industry before joining the economic development agency in April, earns $212,000, according to the records.
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