Mayor Adams' administration has but to request permission for Philip Banks to change into deputy mayor of public security. Banks wants a wavier to gather a metropolis wage whereas additionally gathering an NYPD pension.
Gregory P. Mango
Mayor Eric Adams’ appointment of Phil Banks, an unindicted co-conspirator in one of many NYPD’s largest bribery scandals, to deputy mayor just isn't but above board, The Put up has discovered.
Banks, as soon as subsequent in line to run the police division earlier than his abrupt resignation in 2014, at the moment collects an annual six-figure pension from his time as a cop, so he would want a waiver to be eligible for the $252,000 wage that comes with the Metropolis Corridor title.
However 20 days after Banks introduced his personal appointment — not Adams — to supervise public security within the Huge Apple, the administration has but to request permission for him to take the job.
The revelation Thursday, made via public information requests, is the newest misstep for Adams in appointing family and friends to his administration.
It comes simply hours after the mayor’s brother was authorized to take a job as an advisor by town’s Battle of Curiosity Board solely as a result of Bernard Adams agreed to take an annual wage of a single greenback.
The youthful Adams instructed The Put up beforehand he was appointed to deputy police commissioner dealing with authorities affairs earlier than being demoted days later to government director of mayoral safety with a $210,000 wage.
Eric Adams’ administration solely reached out to the conflicts board after The Put up made public his brother would be a part of the administration in such a prestigious position.
Banks first revealed his long-expected position within the metropolis authorities on Jan. 7 in an op-ed during which he apologized for his connection to the 2 males on the middle of the police bribery scandal.
However the appointment has nonetheless not gone via.
The Adams administration nonetheless should search approval from State Civil Service Fee beneath New York State regulation since Banks is beneath 65 and collects $134,064 yearly pension, in accordance with information obtained by The Put up.
A spokesman for the Division of Citywide Administrative Companies confirmed Thursday there was no waiver on file.
As a part of the regulation, Metropolis Corridor must get a 211 waiver during which it should make the case that the retiree is “correctly licensed” they usually “ready an in depth recruitment plan” for the position.
Additionally they should present there was an pressing want for the particular person as a result of an “unplanned, unpredictable and surprising emptiness” left town with out time to recruit a candidate or “intensive recruitment efforts” discovered there have been “no out there non-retired individuals certified to carry out the duties of such place.”
When requested Thursday about how Banks was nonetheless gathering a pension and metropolis wage and not using a waiver, virtually a month into his tenure, a Metropolis Corridor spokesman mentioned the previous chief has but to be paid.
“The deputy mayor has not but obtained a wage, whereas he evaluates the waiver course of,” Maxwell Younger instructed The Put up.
Banks referred inquiries to Metropolis Corridor.
Further reporting by Nolan Hicks
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