Sep 21, 2024
Interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon said late Saturday the feds raided his homes and seized materials from two decades ago. It wasn’t immediately clear if Donlon is now the target of any investigation. Donlon, a former FBI agent specializing in counterterrorism, has been involved in numerous high-profile investigations, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the bombing of the USS Cole, though it wasn’t immediately clear what case or cases the feds are now looking into. “On Friday, September 20, federal authorities executed search warrants at my residences,” Donlon said in a statement released by the NYPD’s press office at 11:04 p,m. “They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department.” The warrants appear to have been carried out several hours before he and other NYPD and federal officials briefed the media, out the United Nations, about security preparations for this week’s UN General Assembly. An NYPD spokesman had no further comment. Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily NewsInterim NYPD Commissioner Tom Donlon, pictured with Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Executives. It was not immediately clear if or how the disclosure would affect Donlon’s job status as the new top cop. “As we have repeatedly said, we expect all team members to fully comply with any law enforcement inquiry,” said Mayor Adams spokesman Fabien Levy. Donlon was sworn in last Friday, replacing outgoing Commissioner Edward Caban, who resigned a week after the FBI seized his phone as part of a sprawling federal investigation involving other NYPD officers and members of Mayor Adams’ inner circle. Caban’s lawyer has said he was told he is not the target of the investigation, but sources said the feds are looking closely at Caban’s twin brother, James Caban, and whether he sold security favors to nightclubs. After Edward Caban resigned an Adams aide who allegedly helped connect a bar owner with James Cabán was fired. Also Friday, the feds slapped Adams’ asylum seeker operations director, Molly Schaeffer, with a subpoena requiring her to turn over records, including communications with Tim Pearson, a top adviser to the mayor with deep involvement in city migrant contracts. Pearson was among several top advisers to the mayor who had their homes raided and electronics seized by the feds earlier this month as part of sprawling corruption probes. Pearson is also the subject of four lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct and professional retaliation as well as a Department of Investigation probe into a physical confrontation he had with a security guard at a migrant shelter last year. Terence Banks, a government consultant and the younger brother of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks and Schools Chancellor David Banks, has been entangled in that probe over his work representing multiple companies with city business interests. All three Banks brothers had their devices confiscated and homes raided this month as part of that inquiry, as did First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright.   – With Tom Tracy  
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