City officials manipulated public data for years and delayed reporting that homeless families had stayed overnight at an intake center instead of a shelter, according to a new investigation.
The Department of Investigation inquiry focuses on a violent exchange that the adviser, Timothy Pearson, had with security guards at a migrant shelter.
The former commissioner, Eric Ulrich, was to be arraigned with four other defendants, two of whom donated generously to the campaign of Mayor Eric Adams.
Protests in New York City have long helped shape social change in the United States, sometimes at a cost. A court settlement may change the dynamics of such events.