For Immediate Release

05/20/25

Josh Kraft Statement on Brewing Management Crisis at City Hall

BOSTON, MA – The following statement is from Josh Kraft regarding today’s termination of two City Hall aides. 

“Under Mayor Wu there is clearly a management crisis at City Hall. 

Two aides were dismissed following a domestic dispute that resulted in violence against a police officer, but with no consequences for Segun Idowu, a top aide to the mayor, who is allegedly involved with one of the aides that was fired.

If the public is to have any confidence in the “internal investigation” that Mayor Wu claims “found no violations of laws or City workforce policies by any other City employees,” she should release the report to the public. The mayor should also inform the public if the terminated City Hall employees will be receiving a severance payout, and a copy of the City’s workforce policies. 

This is the second time one of Michelle Wu’s closest aides has allegedly engaged in highly unethical behavior. In that instance, Brianna Millor, the mayor’s Chief of Community Engagement, is alleged to have fostered a toxic work environment and to have shared sexually explicit content with city workers on Signal, an encrypted messaging service. The result was a $40,000 taxpayer funded severance package paid to Millor’s former chief of staff after being pushed out, and with no consequences for Millor.

These incidents, and the way the Mayor is handling them, suggests there is a workplace culture and ethics problem at the highest levels of City Hall.”

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