Fed agents raid NYPD office where top Adams officials work: sources

The same day Mayor Adams was indicted on wire fraud and bribery charges, FBI agents probing the NYPD raided a downtown Manhattan office building where two top mayoral advisors, both former cops, work, police sources said. The feds were “looking for records,” sources said, signing into the visitors log at around 1:30 p.m.Wednesday for the records section on the 16th floor of 375 Pearl St., otherwise known as the Verizon Building.NYPD Deputy Mayor Phil Banks and mayoral aide Timothy Pearson work on the floor, the sources noted. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment on the search.The feds are also looking at whether bribes were paid for NYPD promotions and transfers, another source familiar with the investigation said.

Both Pearson and Banks have been involved with promoting and transferring officers, according to multiple police sources.Promotions and transfers are referred to as “contracts” in the NYPD and are known to sometimes involve preferential treatment for friends and family, in a profession that prides itself in being passed down through generations.The Wednesday raid at the Verizon Building, a stone’s throw from NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza, occurred amid multiple federal probes into the Adams administration.The mayor was indicted Thursday on charges of bribery and wire fraud for allegedly accepting campaign donations and free travel from foreign business people and a Turkish government official in exchange for favorable treatment.Banks, Pearson and former Police Commissioner Edward Caban all had their phones seized by the feds earlier this month.

Caban resigned Sept.12 following pressure from City Hall after a federal raid on his Rockland County home.

Federal agents also got phones or phone records from six other NYPD officials who worked closely with the police commissioner, including Caban’s chief of staff Raul Pintos, two precinct commanders, a lieutenant and two detectives who wor...