A top aide to Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing questions over what he knew about a notorious rape case against a powerful Democratic Party insider who became a sex offender.

Attorney Carrie Goldberg said she wants to grill Mamdani’s First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan related to her claims by her client Elizabeth Crothers that she was sexually assaulted by then-state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s chief legal counsel in 2001.

Fuleihan was working for Silver and Assembly Democrats at the time of the alleged attack by counsel Michael Boxley — and during an alleged “smear campaign” that followed against her client, the lawyer said.

“First Deputy…

Read the full article at NYPOST.COM