NYC taxpayers footing $600-an-hour legal bills for three City Hall staffers amid federal probes

Big Apple taxpayers are footing $600-an-hour legal bills for three City Hall staffers in the historic federal criminal probes encircling Mayor Eric Adams, The Post has learned.The high-powered law firm Yankwitt LLP has been tapped by the Adams administration to provide legal representation for three employees who’ve been subpoenaed by the feds, according to a city Law Department letter.City officials confirmed the identity of only one staffer — Molly Schaeffer, the low-profile head of asylum seeker services who was hit with the information-sharing request nearly two weeks ago at her Brooklyn home.They refused to disclose the other two staffers, contending authorities with the Southern District of New York swore them to silence on matters related to the investigation — and despite confirming Schaeffer’s identity.“As we have said before, we are not going to comment on pending matters,” a spokesperson said.Law Department officials wrote in the letter, obtained by The Post, that “upon information and belief, the three employees are neither targets nor subjects of the investigations.”Adams himself was said by city lawyers to not be a target — at least until the feds unveiled a stunning 57-page indictment against him last week.Duncan Levin, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, where Adams’ case is being handled, told The Post that the three people are all being repped by the same law firm indicates they are witnesses and not targets.“One law firm wouldn’t be able to represent three cooperators in a case because there would be a conflict of interest,” he said.The only staffer — Schaeffer — whose name that city officials coughed up is not under investigation for wrongdoing, sources have said.Instead, her testimony and knowledge of migrant contracts is being sought as feds look into Tim Pearson, an Adams ally who may have allegedly interfered with picking contractors in exchange for illegal kickbacks, according to the so...