{"id":107445,"date":"2024-10-07T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/nyc-deputy-mayor-for-public-safety-resigns-latest-in-adams-admin-to-leave\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:00:33","slug":"nyc-deputy-mayor-for-public-safety-resigns-latest-in-adams-admin-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/nyc-deputy-mayor-for-public-safety-resigns-latest-in-adams-admin-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC deputy mayor for public safety resigns, latest in Adams admin to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-07\/GettyImages-1513217997.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Lev Radin\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; New York City&#8217;s deputy mayor for public safety, Phil Banks III, resigned Monday in the latest fallout from the corruption scandal engulfing the administration of Mayor Eric Adams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We spoke yesterday and we spoke again this morning and he stated he wants to move on to other things in his life,&#8221; Adams told NY1. &#8220;I wish my good friend well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banks&#8217; brother, David Banks, resigned as schools chancellor. First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, David Banks&#8217; wife, is arranging her departure from the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Banks had his phones seized last month as part of a federal investigation into city contracts of how the police department enforced nightlife regulations. David Banks and Sheena Wright had their phones seized as well.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Banks, at one point the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD, resigned from the department in 2014 amid a different corruption scandal during the prior administration. Federal prosecutors at the time named Banks an unindicted coconspirator.<\/p>\n<p>Adams has pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment charging him with bribery and fraud. He is resisting calls for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Yorkers are saying keep doing the job you&#8217;ve been doing,&#8221; Adams told NY1.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lev Radin\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; New York City&#8217;s deputy mayor for public safety, Phil Banks III, resigned Monday in the latest fallout from the corruption scandal engulfing the administration of Mayor Eric Adams. &#8220;We spoke yesterday and we spoke again this morning and he stated he<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/nyc-deputy-mayor-for-public-safety-resigns-latest-in-adams-admin-to-leave\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}