The question of whether an employee of the City of New York is entitled to representation under General Municipal Law § 50-k depends on whether the employee was acting within the scope of his or her public employment and is to be decided in the first instance by the Corporation Counsel, whose determination "may be set aside only if it lacks a factual basis", i.e., is "arbitrary and capricious" (Matter of Williams v City of New York,
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