Security firm linked to Adams honcho Phil Banks under investigation by feds, DOI: sources

Federal and NYC investigators are scrutinizing a security firm previously owned by Mayor Eric Adams’ top public safety officer amid a jaw-dropping escalation of probes swirling around City Hall, sources told The Post Saturday.Both the U.S.Attorney’s Office and the city’s Department of Investigation are probing City Safe Partners, which was once owned by Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks.The company scored a whopping $154 million contract in January to provide “emergency fire watch services” for the New York City Housing Authority, The New York Times reported.

Sheena Wright, Adams’ first deputy mayor and the fiancée of Banks’ brother David, the schools chancellor, sits on NYCHA’s board and voted to approve the emergency contract.The City Safe deal is just one of numerous government contracts under review as part of an ongoing probe into the Adams administration that involves at least four separate federal inquiries, law enforcement sources told The Post.Wright’s role in greenlighting the NYCHA deal is being reviewing for alleged improprieties, they added.FBI agents on Sept.

4 raided the homes of Phil Banks and Wright.The feds are eyeing whether Phil Banks steered city contracts toward companies represented by a consulting firm run by his another Banks sibling, Terence, which records show had inked millions of dollars’ worth of public deals, sources have said.The three Banks brothers’ phones were seized by federal agents investigating the possible bribery scheme.Before Phil Banks was appointed deputy mayor by Adams two years ago, he had a long career at the NYPD before abruptly after retiring in 2014 as chief of department amid a sprawling federal corruption probe into police corruption.Prosecutors identified Philip as an unindicted co-conspirator, but he was never charged with wrongdoing.In 2015, Banks bought interest in City Safe Partners and was listed as a member of its management team as recently as 2018.

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