An investigation by THE CITY has found that Tim Pearson, a top adviser to Mayor Eric Adams and who is under federal investigation, delayed for months a multimillion-dollar contract to provide caseworkers at migrant shelters.

Tim Pearson, Adams Aide Under Federal Probe, Blocked Services to Migrants as City Shelters Swelled

Pearson’s intervention hampered efforts to help migrants get work papers. His communications with an official in charge of asylum-seeker operations, Molly Schaeffer, are the subject of a new subpoena.

Evil through bureaucracy.

Profiting through depriving the most desperate and vulnerable people.