New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday that he has accepted the resignation of Philip Banks, the 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….