Harlem Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs fired employee battling amputation health crisis: suit
Harlem Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs (D-Manhattan) is being accused of illegal꧑ly firing a former staffer as he battled a health crisis that ultimately resu🃏lted in his leg being amputated, according to a new lawsuit.
Keith Lilly alleges that Gibbs discriminated against him by firing him as he was laid up in the hospital for several weeks, according to his lawsuit filed in Manhatta💙n Supreme Court this week.
“I was stunned when I was told by the assemblymember w🙈hile lying in my hospital bed that he was firing me without any explanation,” Lilly wrote in a statement to The Post.
Lilly claims Gibbs canned him without explanation just a day♎ before doctors told him he would lose his toes as he battled with Type II diabetes – a fight that would ultimately result in him losing his leg, according to the suit.
“In my darkest hour, I faced both personal and professional d𝔉evastation,” he said in the stat💝ement.
Gibbs brought on Lilly as a senior adviser after winning his fir🍎st term beginning in 2022.
The progressive pol is currently facing a heated primary from Xavier Santꦍiago, a TV producer who has the backing of Bronx Rep. Adriano Espaillat (R-NY).
Espaillat is pushing the primary against Gibbs as well as another freshman pol, Assemblyman Landon Dais (D-Bronx), as he seeks to build a bench of Dominican🎀 and Latino lawmakers.
Former East Harlem Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, who’s known Lilly for 30 years, said he was shocked at Gibbs’ alleged treatment of his employee.
“It’s horrible. Keith Lilly had some medical issues. He doesn’t deserve this,” said Powell, who is backing Santiago.
“Keith Lilly is a good dude,” he continued.
Gibbs did not return a request for com🔥ment Friday.
