The city is offering free legal help to any of its workers who might face criminal charges in the deadly Deutsche Bank blaze, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.
“We will help anybody who needs legal services,” said the mayor. “We treat all our employees exactly the same.”
Bloomberg insisted the free representation by a high-powered outside legal firm wasn’t unusual and was intended to “make sure that this city is represented by people who know what they’re doing.”
On Monday, the city Law Department announced that it had hired the firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to help it handle an investigation by the Manhattan DA’s Office into the Aug. 18 fire that took the lives of firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino.