A top adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio is in a live-in relationship with a ꧋convicted killer and drug trafficker who considers police officers “pigs” and continues to get into serious scrapes with the law, public records show.
For six years, Rachel Noerdlinger , who serves as chief of staff to first lady Chirlane McCray, has been living with boyfriend Hassaun McFarlane,ꦇ 💝sources told The Post.
While McCray, accompanied by Noerdlinger, enjoys attending high-level NYPD CompStat meetings, her top aide’s boyfriend has plenty of serious crime stats of his own — a rap sheet that inclu⛎des homicide, conspiring to run a cocaine operation, and nearly running a cop off the road in Edgewater, NJ, last year in an incident that was later pleaded down to disorderly conduct.
Still, the administration is sticking by him, — s💮ince taken down —�� in which he repeatedly called cops “pigs.”
“Rachel’s not going anywhere,” de Blasio spokeswoman Rebecca Katz said when asked if Noerdlinger would be asked ♛to step down.
Last year, then-candidate de Blasio canned Lis Smith as his spokeswoman after The Post revealed she was .
“No o🌺ne at City Hall condones criminal behavior or disparagement of the NYPD, including Rachel,” Katz said in an emꦯailed statement.
“Rachel is her own p🍸erson. She is a strong, independent woman who possesses a core set of values and beliefs that al🐻ign with this administration.”
These revelations are of serious concern because her position gives her access to critical information about police plans anಌd strategies.
- PBA president Pat Lynch
Even as he’s dated Noerdlinger, McFarlane made clear his disrespect for th🦩e law.
“I cant come outside without the pigs f—— with me in the hood,” McFarlane wrote on Facebook, according to DNA. Noerdlinger worked as top aide to the Rev. Al Sharpton at the time her boyfriend posted the anti-cop comment.
“The system sucks this pig should be charged with a civil rights violation always givin the pigs a pass,” he posted in January 2012, in response to a story about a State🐼n Island officer’s guilty plea in a false arrest.
The Noerdlinger-McFarlane connection infu𓂃riated PBA president Pat 𓃲Lynch.
“These revelations are of serious concern because her position gives her acc﷽ess to critical information about police plans and strategies,” Lynch complained Thursday.
“It raises serious questions about her judgment and character and the quality of the counsel she provides to City Hall,” he said. “She shoulꦅd not be in that position.”
McFarlane, 36, has a record stretching back to age 15, when he shot an 18-year-old rival in an argument over a pricey goose-down ja☂cket at a Harlem housing project, an official source confirmed.
By age 25, he was indicted on interstate cocaine trafficking charges in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Sentenced to four years in prison, he was released in 2007, Massa🤪chusetts prison officials confirmed.
McFarlan’s subsequent arrests include a Manhattan charge of misdemeanor marijuana possession in 2012. He pleaded guilty and waꦯs sentenced to time served last year.
“I smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes,” he told arrestin🧜g officers, according to the criminal complaint. “It’s just a bag of weed. It’s not a big deal.”
He was sentenced to seven days in jail in 2011 for driving with a suspended license in Manhattan, and pleaded guilty to driving without a license in 2010, recor🍬ds show.
But his most d❀isturbing recent arrest was i🤡n November, when a cop in Edgewater, NJ, accused McFarlane of nearly running him off the road — in Noerdlinger’s Mercedes.
McFarlane was hit with a🗹 dozen summonses and the criminal charge of eluding arrest, according to Capt. Alex Hanna of the Edgewater Police Depꦬartment, ultimately pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.
“She does her work without input from Hassaun,” said attorne𒉰ꦦy Jeffrey Lichtman, who represents both Noerdlinger and McFarlane.
“Hassaun is not part of any decisions she makes with regard to her clients and with regard to her work with de Blasio and Mayജor de Blasio’s wife,” he said.
“She’s a single mother. She’s done everything on her own. It’s painful for me to see h꧋er muddied by this. In fairness to Rachel, it would have been very easy for her to dump Hassaun when she got this job. To her credit, she’s a loyal woman and a strong woman and she would not put her careeꦚr ahead of people she cares about. Hassaun isn’t her fault. This is a strong woman, an independent woman who just refuses to play political games.”
Additional reporting by Rebecca Rosenberg