Bo Dietl, an ex-NYPD cop and friend of Mayor Adams, promised Wednesday he won’t use foul language anymore after the mayor’s legal defense trust fired him for berating two reporters with vulgarities.
“I’m not going to curse anymore. I went to my priest today and did an act of contrition,” Dietl told the Daily News in an evening phone call from Il Postino on the Upper East Side, where he said he was having dinner.
Dietl, who’s known for mounting a failed 2017 campaign against ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio, made waves this week when The News first reported his private detective firm had been paid about $13,000 by Adams’ legal defense trust to vet donations to the fund to ensure their legality. The mayor launched the trust last year to raise money for legal fees and other costs racked up as part of a federal investigation into his 2021 campaign’s finances and alleged ties to Turkey’s government.
When The News asked him for comment Tuesday, Dietl responded by saying: “I wouldn’t f—ing tell you any f—ing thing.”
On Wednesday, Dietl went on an even more obscene rant when a Politico reporter inquired about his work for Adams’ trust.
“Go suck somebody’s d–k, because I don’t want to talk to you, okay?” the outlet quoted Dietl as telling the reporter.
Later Wednesday, Vito Pitta, an attorney for Adams’ trust, confirmed Dietl had been fired over the rants.
“The mayor believes that that language is unacceptable, and that no person should talk to another person in such a disrespectful way,” Pitta said in a text, marking an unusual instance of Adams publicly reprimanding a close ally.
When first reached during his post-termination meal Wednesday evening, Dietl responded by saying, “Daily News, do you want me to curse you out?”
He refrained from doing so.
But Dietl said he hadn’t been informed by Adams’ trust about his firing.
“No one has notified me about that,” he said. He declined to say whether he has spoken with Adams this week.
