Federal investigation targets allies of Mayor Adams

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COUNTRY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, TERESA. >> AND WITH CABANA OUT AND DONLON IN THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO OTHER TOP OFFICIALS MOVES FULL STEAM AHEAD. >> OUR COVERAGE CONTINUES TONIGHT WITH ANTOINE LEWIS. HE'S CONNECTING THE DOTS AND TAKING A LOOK AT WHO'S WHO IN THE SCANDAL THAT IS ROCKING THE CITY GOVERNMENT. ANTOINE. >> NATASHA. KEEPING A CLOSE INNER CIRCLE IS COMMONPLACE IN POLITICS. WE ALL KNOW THIS. BUT THE OPTICS RIGHT NOW ON SOME OF MAYOR ADAMS INNER CIRCLE SAYS HE EVEN SAYS IT CAUGHT HIM OFF GUARD. >> I WAS AS SURPRISED AS YOU TO LEARN OF THESE INQUIRIES, AND I TAKE THEM EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY. >> THE BREAKDOWN OF THOSE BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI READS LIKE A WHO'S WHO OF THE MAYOR'S INNER CIRCLE. LAST WEEK, THE FBI RAIDED THE UPTOWN HOME OF FIRST DEPUTY MAYOR SHEENA WRIGHT. WRIGHT SHARES THE HOME WITH DAVID BANKS, NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR DAVID BANKS IS THE BROTHER OF PHILIP BANKS, THE THIRD DEPUTY MAYOR FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. THE NEW YORK TIMES IS REPORTING THAT DEPUTY MAYOR BANKS IS PART OF AN FBI BRIBERY INVESTIGATION. AGENTS TOOK THE ELECTRONIC DEVICES FROM THOSE TWO HOMES AND THAT OF A THIRD BANK'S BROTHER, TERRENCE, WHO RUNS A CONSULTING FIRM. THEIR FATHER, PHILIP BANKS JUNIOR, WAS AN NYPD LIEUTENANT WHEN ADAMS WAS A CAPTAIN. SOME SAY IT'S COMMON PRACTICE FOR POLITICIANS TO SURROUND THEMSELVES WITH PEOPLE THEY KNOW FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE. DAVID SHAPIRO IS DIRECTOR OF INSPECTION AND OVERSIGHT AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE. >> SOMETIMES THAT'S EVEN WORSE THAN THAN TAKING A CHANCE AND SAYING, WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THIS PERSON, BUT THEY'VE BEEN LOYAL TO ME FOR 20 YEARS AND I HAVE NO PALPABLE REASON TO DISCARD THAT THAT FRIENDSHIP, TO BE THE FIRST HISPANIC POLICE COMMISSIONER IS AN HONOR OF THE HIGHEST MEASURE. >> YET 14 MONTHS LATER, CABAN STEPPED DOWN AFTER THE FBI SEIZED HIS PHONE LAST WEEK IN HIS RESIGNATION LATER, CABAN SAYS HE DID NOT WANT TO BE A DISTRACTION DURING THE FEDERAL PROBE THAT FOX FIVE HAS LEARNED MAY BE CONNECTED TO HIS TWIN BROTHER JAMES, AND A THIRD BROTHER, RICHARD. JAMES COBURN, WAS FIRED BY THE NYPD IN 2001 FOR ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO FRAME A NEW YORK CITY TAXI DRIVER. HE RUNS A FIRM THAT DOES SECURITY FOR NEW YORK CITY NIGHTCLUBS, SOURCES TELL FOX FIVE THAT HE IS PART OF A CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION. THEIR CONNECTION TO MAYOR ADAMS IS THROUGH THEIR FATHER, JUAN CABAN. JUAN CABAN AND ADAMS BOTH RAN ORGANIZATIONS IN THE 90S THAT SUPPORTED MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS. ANOTHER ADAMS ALLY, TIMOTHY PEARSON, WAS ALSO SUBPOENAED. PEARSON IS A FORMER COP ON THE FORCE. AT THE SAME TIME AS ADAMS, THE FEDS ASKED FOR HIS CELL PHONE AS WELL. ADAMS AND CITY HALL MAINTAIN THEY ARE COOPERATING WITH THE FBI. >> MAYOR ADAMS HAS BEEN IN GOVERNMENT, WHETHER AS A POLICE OFFICER AND OTHER ROLES, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. YOU DEVELOP CERTAIN ALLIANCES, CERTAIN TRUSTS, AND YOU CANNOT DISCARD THESE PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY. >> CITY HALL RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING THAT FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOT INDICATED THAT MAYOR ADAMS OR HIS STAFF ARE TARGETS OF ANY INVESTIGATION. AND MAYOR

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