Daniela Jampel – who was fired from her job Monday less than an hour after she crashed in an Adams press conference to demand “exposing our toddlers” – took the city by surprise when she wrote on Twitter about her legal work. Friday.
That put her in the crosshairs of senior officials, who immediately decided she should be fired, many sources said – after 16 months of criticizing the city’s pandemic closure and mask orders as an activist in her personal time.
Jabel’s embarrassing ambush on Adams was obviously what made them pull the trigger.
“I am a city lawyer. “I have represented police officers who lie in court, teachers who abuse children, jailers who beat detainees,” Jabel said in a tweet on Friday, which was deleted late Monday.
“It’s a job I’ve done proudly. Until tonight. The struggle to keep masks in infants is a shame. “I am ashamed of my office,” said the mother of three.
Daniela Jampel served as a lawyer for the New York City Law Department.Twitter / Daniela Jampel Daniela Jampel tweeted this photo of her daughter when she returned to school without a mask. Twitter / Daniela JampelJampel speaks at a rally in City Hall Park in downtown Manhattan on Monday, March 7, 2022 Stefan Jeremiah
State court records show that Jabel has been involved in at least 29 civil lawsuits against the city since she began working in the Legal Department in 2016. Some of these cases, which are still pending, are similar to the ones she mentioned in the tweet. of.
In January 2020, Jampel helped defend the city in a Child Victims Act case filed by the parents of a minor allegedly sexually abused by Jonathan Pol, a teacher at the Mott Hall Community School in the Bronx, according to court records.
The victim’s parents claim that their child was “sexually assaulted and abused… on an almost daily basis” by Paul for about five months between December 2018 and May 2019, the documents state.
Pol was later arrested by the NYPD and charged with rape. Both the civil suit and the criminal case are still pending, the records show.
There is speculation that Jampel was fired for setting an ambush on Mayor Adams. Pacific Press / Shutterstock / Lev Radin
In June 2020, Jabel was involved in a $ 350 million lawsuit for an unlawful death against the city after an unarmed man was shot and killed by NYPD officers during a routine traffic stop in 2019, court records say.
Jabel filed three documents in the case, which was re-filed in February 2021 and is still pending.
The review of the records did not reveal any public cases involving guards who allegedly beat detainees, but Jampel defended the city in a lawsuit filed by a man who was allegedly shot by an out-of-batch prison in Brooklyn sometime in 2014, records show. .
A spokesman for the Legal Department – asked by The Post on Tuesday if Jampel’s comments on Twitter could affect any pending trial – replied: “As city lawyers we take our professional and moral responsibilities seriously.
“We are fully considering this issue.”
Jabel has spoken little publicly since finishing. She sent a brief statement to The Post late Monday saying she had retained her lawyer and would not “protest to the press”.
