The FBI carried out sweeping raids on the properties of two prime aides to New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams.
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Sources acquainted with the investigation confirmed that federal brokers focused the Hamilton Heights dwelling of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and her romantic companion, Faculties Chancellor David Banks, in addition to the Hollis, Queens residence of Deputy Mayor for Public Security Phil Banks.
David Banks and Phil Banks are brothers.
“Investigators haven’t indicated to us the mayor or his workers are targets of any investigation,” the mayor’s chief counsel, Lisa Zornberg, mentioned in an announcement per ABC News.
“As a former member of regulation enforcement, the mayor has repeatedly made clear that every one members of the crew must observe the regulation.”
Sources report that the FBI seized electronics and different proof through the searches, although no expenses have been filed presently.
This isn’t the primary time federal brokers have descended upon Adams’ interior circle.
FBI brokers carried out coordinated raids on the residences of a New York Metropolis Corridor staffer, a former Turkish Airways govt, on the identical day the FBI conducted a raid on the Brooklyn residence of Brianna Suggs, the chief fundraiser for New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams.
The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported that the FBI launched an investigation towards Mayor Eric Adams into potential unlawful overseas donations from Turkey to New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams’s 2021 election marketing campaign.
The searches, which began early on November 2, focused Brianna Suggs, Mayor Adams’s chief fundraiser; Rana Abbasova, an aide in his worldwide affairs workplace; and Cenk Öcal, a former Turkish Airways govt who was on Adams’s transition crew.
In November, the FBI seized NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ cellphones and iPad amid a federal corruption investigation associated to his 2021 marketing campaign.
Earlier this yr, FBI brokers descended on the Bronx dwelling of Winnie Greco, a prime aide who’s under investigation for utilizing her place to profit her improperly.
A supply acquainted with the scenario knowledgeable Politico that the raids at this time don’t appear to be linked to the Turkey investigation and the investigation into Adams’ particular adviser and marketing campaign fundraiser, Winnie Greco.
