Federal authorities raided the house of NYPD Interim Commissioner Thomas Donlon on Friday — simply over per week after his predecessor, Edward Caban, resigned following an FBI raid at his residence.
Donlon admitted to the search in a short assertion launched by the division late Saturday evening — saying that authorities “took supplies that got here into my possession 20 years in the past and are unrelated to my work with the New York Metropolis Police Division.”
He added that the division wouldn’t be commenting additional, because it’s not an NYPD matter.
Donlon, who was pulled out of retirement from his federal legislation enforcement profession to be the town’s prime cop, didn’t specify which federal company searched his residence.
Sources informed the Publish authorities are trying into whether or not he took labeled paperwork whereas he was with the FBI and Division of Homeland Safety,
The feds are sending a message to Mayor Eric Adams that “nobody is protected,” as a number of members of his administration and internal circle are underneath investigation, one other supply mentioned.
“As we have now repeatedly mentioned, we anticipate all group members to totally adjust to any legislation enforcement inquiry,” Metropolis Corridor spokesperson Fabian Levy mentioned.
A legislation enforcement supply informed The Publish that the feds are sending a message to Mayor Eric Adams that “nobody is protected,” as a number of members of his administration and internal circle are underneath investigation.
Adams tapped Donlon, an NYPD outsider, to take over as New York Metropolis’s interim commissioner on Sept. 12 after Caban, an NYPD vet of 30 years, abruptly resigned amid a federal investigation.
Digital gadgets had been seized by federal brokers at Caban’s and different metropolis officers’ residence as a part of what sources described as a sweeping corruption probe involving potential affect peddling.
Caban cited the media frenzy surrounding the investigation, in addition to a probe into his twin brother, as a “distraction” for the division in his resignation letter.
Others in Adams’ internal circle who’re additionally ensnared by the federal dragnet had been Deputy Mayor for Public Security Phil Banks, former NYPD official Tim Pearson, Colleges Chancellor David Banks and their brother Terence Banks and First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright.
On Friday, the town’s head of asylum seeker providers Molly Schaefer was subpoenaed by federal authorities as a part of the probe into Pearson.
Donlon, a Bronx native, boasts a protracted resume in legislation enforcement on the native, state, federal and worldwide ranges.
The 57-year-old beforehand served as New York’s director of the Workplace of Homeland Safety, ran the FBI’s Nationwide Risk Evaluation Heart and the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Job Pressure.
When he accepted the place as interim commissioner, Donlon vowed to “uphold the best requirements of integrity and transparency, and help our devoted officers who put their lives on the road every single day to maintain us protected.”
Extra reporting by Craig McCarthy