New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Oct. 7 that he has accepted the resignation of Philip Banks, deputy mayor for public safety.
Banks is the latest New York City public official to resign amid a federal probe into Adams’s alleged illegal campaign activity.
Banks was appointed in 2022 and had previously served as the New York Police Department’s (NYPD’s) highest-ranking officer.
In 2014, he resigned from the NYPD after a scandal in which two businessmen were convicted of bribing police officers and officials.
The investigation involved wiretapping Banks’s phone to see how $300,000 appeared in his bank account. Banks was named as an unindicted co-conspirator but was not charged. […]
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