edward caban resigns as NYPD commissioner. after federal agents raided his house 🏠 🤣 #nyccrime

breaking news at noon New York City's Police Commissioner is stepping down NYPD sources tell political reporter Marsha Kramer Edward caban will resign admit an ongoing investigation good afternoon I'm Cindy Shu now on air and streaming on CBS News New York we're expecting to hear from mayor Eric Adams soon about the resignation of commissioner caban this comes after raids this week at his home and at least three other top officials in the Adams admin ministration political reporter Mara Kramer has been covering this story all week she is live at City Hall with the latest Marsha well Cindy I have several sources that tell me that the police commissioner has decided to step down because he doesn't want to be a distraction as the police department has to deal with a lot of important issues this is not an admission of guilt or that he's done anything wrong in fact sources tell me he insists that he believes he has done nothing wrong but this comes also after there's been days of discussion with the Adams Administration and there was also a decision that wanted to that they wanted to wait until after 911 so that wouldn't be a distraction for what was going on on 9/11 and as you said it comes as Top members of the administration have been the target of of federal probes and but I want to tell you that earlier the governor said that she had no problems working with the Adams Administration and said it's only an investigation at this point this is what she had to say when there is evidence of wrongdoing when there is evidence of a crime um we take steps necessary to remove them from those positions when that individual is found involved in committing a crime themselves uh Gathering intelligence by law enforcement is a different stage of the process now again to report police commissioner Edward kaban has decided to step aside after days of discussion with the Adams Administration now the next question you want to know is who's going to replace him and we're hearing a number of reports but I'm also being told that the federal officials involved in this investigation are insisting it be somebody from outside the department so that there's no appearance of impropriety a number of names have been floated they've talked about former sanitation commissioner Jessica Tish they've also talked about getting somebody from either the US attorney's office or the FBI some who's been a former Federal prosecutor it looks like this is an attempt to make sure that whatever investigation goes on that that investigation is not tainted by anything that that could happen in the department again it also involves raids that were conducted on four members four Top members of the mayor's Inner Circle including the schools commissioner his first Deputy Mayor and the deputy mayor for Public Safety M uh commissioner kaban through the course of the week when I had asked him if he decided he was going to resign he kept saying those rumors were false but apparently he ESC to pressure from a lot of people that it would be better for the department and no distraction if the if he were to step aside as you know the mayor famously says no distractions focus and grind so this is going along with that now the mayor has covid so he's expected to make this announcement momentarily from City Hall where he is still in quarantine Cy back to you all right mayor with all this swirling around the mayor what has his response been to to these raids and the investigation well I think that the the nobody knows exactly what's going on and it looks like there's actually three investigations going on one which is unrelated has to do with um whether there was any Turkish involvement in making campaign donations to the mayor's 2021 campaign that's a side and apart the raids that happened on all of the Mayors um Inner Circle appear to have two separate parts of the probe one apparently is focusing on the police department where um there are allegations that they're looking at the police commissioner's twin brother James and the possibility that he had some role in dealing with payments from the um from the uh nightclub various nightclubs in the city the other investigation appears to be focusing on contracts that may have been given to various officials um in the um as part of the ad Administration again there is no indication that anybody right now is a target of investigation and that there's been any wrongdoing what they're looking for it seems is sort of information they want to see what's on people's phones if there's anything incriminating on people's phones or if there isn't and at this point it's really too early to tell where the investigations are going all right Marsha crer live at City Hall Marsha thank you very much and stay with CBS News New York for the very latest on resigning if mayor Adam speaks during this newscast we'll bring it to you live and look for Marsha's reports on the investigation on CBS new york.com