Suspended city attorney John Houton is suing the mayor and City of Boston, alleging that the Wu administration retaliated against him when he pursued a bid for mayor, by placing him on leave and taking steps to keep him off the ballot.

Houton filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court earlier this month against the city, Mayor Michelle Wu, the Boston Election Department and its commissioner Eneida Tavares, the city’s corporation counsel and his boss Adam Cederbaum, the city’s chief financial officer Ashley Groffenberger, and Secretary of State Bill Galvin.

“The city maliciously suspended plaintiff because it was their intent to thwart plaintiff’s candidacy,” Houton wrote in the Nov. 3 lawsuit. “The City of Boston through the actions of Cederbaum and Wu sought to prevent candidate Houton’s i

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