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The Banks Job

Posted 1/4/22

To the Editor: Mayor Eric Adams has a problem, and that problem has a name: Philip Banks III.

Banks is a former NYPD Police Chief who had been under a Federal corruption cloud when he retired suddenly in 2014. He was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a public-corruption case that came out of a suspected illegal liquor-distribution ring. Evidence showed that Mr. Banks accepted gifts from people seeking to influence city officials, but he was not charged with a crime.

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