Hochul on FBI raids on Mayor Adams' aides: "Let the authorities do their jobs"

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FORMER PROSECUTOR TURNED CRIMINAL TRIAL ATTORNEY. >> NEW REACTION TONIGHT AFTER FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS RAIDED THE HOMES OF SEVERAL TOP CITY OFFICIALS. >> FOX SHARON CROWLEY JOINS US NOW. AND SHARON, TODAY WE HEARD FROM GOVERNOR HOCHUL ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION. >> YEAH, SHE WAS ACTUALLY AT A SEPARATE EVENT, BUT WE DID ASK HER ABOUT IT. GOVERNOR HOCHUL, REACTING TO THE MULTIPLE FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING THE MAYOR'S TOP LEADER. SHE SAYS SHE'S STANDING BY THE MAYOR AND VOWING TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH HIM FOR THE STATE AND THE CITY. >> MY REACTION IS I READ IT IN THE NEWSPAPER, I PROCESSED IT, AND I ALSO KNOW I HAVE A JOB TO DO. MY JOB IS NOT TO SPECULATE. I'LL LET THE AUTHORITIES DO THEIR JOBS. >> GOVERNOR HOCHUL, REACTING TO FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS SWIRLING AROUND MAYOR ADAMS AND SOME OF HIS MOST TRUSTED ADVISERS, INCLUDING THE SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR AND THE POLICE COMMISSIONER, I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE NYPD TO HAVE THE RANK AND FILE CONTINUE DOING WHAT THEY DO ON THE STREETS PROTECTING SAFETY, LOOKING OUT FOR NEW YORKERS. WEDNESDAY, THE FBI SEARCHED THE HARLEM HOME OF SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR DAVID BANKS AND HIS FIANCE, FIRST DEPUTY MAYOR SHEENA WRIGHT. HIS BROTHER, DEPUTY MAYOR FOR PUBLIC SAFETY PHILIP BANKS, IS HOME WAS ALSO RAIDED, AS WAS THE HOME OF THE SENIOR ADVISER TO THE MAYOR, TIM PIERSON. THE FBI ALSO SEIZED THE PHONES OF NYPD POLICE COMMISSIONER EDWARD CABAN, UNHEARD OF TO HAVE A POLICE COMMISSIONER'S HOME AND SEARCHED AND ITEMS SEIZED BY FBI AGENTS. >> WE'VE NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE THIS, BUT WHAT IT DOES SAY IS THE MAYOR NEEDS TO FIND ONE THING HE CAN HOLD ON TO VERY QUICKLY, BECAUSE IF NOT, THESE SCANDALS COULD SINK HIM. >> ON THE 6:00 NEWS THURSDAY, THE MAYOR INSISTING HE'S STANDING BY HIS LEADERSHIP AND COOPERATING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. I HAVE BEEN CLEAR THAT MY MESSAGE THROUGHOUT MY PUBLIC LIFE IS TO FOLLOW THE LAW AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. >> WE'RE GOING TO COMPLY WITH WHATEVER INQUIRY AND WHATEVER WE HAVE TO SUBMIT. WHILE THIS REVIEW TAKES PLACE TODAY, THE SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR, ECHOING THAT SENTIMENT, RELEASING THIS STATEMENT THAT SAYS IN PART, I AM CONFIRMING THAT I AM COOPERATING WITH A FEDERAL INQUIRY AT THIS TIME. >> I CANNOT COMMENT ANY FURTHER ON THAT MATTER. WHAT WE STILL DON'T KNOW IS IF THESE ARE SEPARATE INVESTIGATIONS OR CONNECTED. WE DO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN THE LAST FEW DAYS APPEARS TO BE UNRELATED TO ANOTHER PROBE INTO WHETHER THE MAYOR'S CAMPAIGN COLLUDED WITH TURKEY TO COLLECT ILLEGAL FOREIGN DONATIONS, AND WE DID REACH OUT TO THE POLICE COMMISSIONER, AN NYPD SPOKESPERSON, TELLING US THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS AWARE OF THE INVESTIGATION BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE INVOLVING MEMBERS OF SERVICE AND IS COOPERATING, AND WE ALSO TRIED TO GET SOME INFORMATION FROM THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, BUT THEY HAVE NO

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