NYPD Chief Phillip Banks Quit Amid FBI’s Investigation Into ‘Inordinate Amount of Cash’
He was once a rising star in the NYPD and a finalist to be Mayor de Blasio’s police commissioner.
He was once a rising star in the NYPD and a finalist to be Mayor de Blasio’s police commissioner.
One day after two men who were members of Bill de Blasio’s inaugural committee were named in an FBI probe involving high ranking members of the NYPD, the mayor has distanced himself from the pair, saying they have not donated to his re-election campaign and he will not accept donations from either of the two…
The businessmen at the center of a federal corruption probe of NYPD cops have deep financial ties to Mayor de Blasio with one of them having sent tens of thousands of dollars Hizzoner’s way, sources and records revealed.
The gifts were lavish — Super Bowl tickets and vacations to China and London. The favors were troubling using NYPD cops to provide security for private cash and jewelry deliveries and police escorts for funerals and airport trips to transfer bodies to Israel.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that his department will “cooperate fully” with the FBI in its corruption probe into the NYPD which The Post exclusively reported on Tuesday.
The FBI is investigating suspected NYPD corruption focusing on the relationship between two politically connected businessmen and a slew of officers throughout the ranks, multiple sources told The Post on Monday.