The shared salaries enable folks to grasp how Mayor Eric Adams's administration hierarchy operates. Nevertheless, many appointments aren't sharing what they're banking.
Gregory P. Mango
The interior circle is the golden circle at Metropolis Corridor.
Longtime aides and allies introduced into his administration by Mayor Eric Adams are drawing salaries which are almost the dimensions of Hizzoner’s personal $259,000 a yr paycheck, based on public information filed in latest weeks.
The wage data gives new perception into the hierarchy of the Adams administration, the place many appointments nonetheless haven't been formally introduced and the place Metropolis Corridor spokesmen have refused to reply questions on pay for weeks.
On the high of the pyramid, making $252,000 yearly are Chief Advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams’ longtime right-hand from his days as Brooklyn borough president, and Frank Carone, his chief of workers and the previous longtime energy dealer of the Brooklyn Democratic Get together.
That’s additionally the identical fee of pay awarded to not less than two of Adams’ deputy mayors, together with Philip Banks, one other longtime Adams buddy who oversees public security and has been dogged by questions on potential double-dipping together with his beforehand awarded metropolis pension.
Metropolis Corridor Press Secretary Fabien Levy stated late Tuesday that Banks remains to be not receiving his metropolis wage as a result of laws that require he obtain permission from state officers to gather his pension and a paycheck concurrently.
That high pay band is equivalent to what Mayor Invoice de Blasio paid his deputy mayors and chief of workers, information present.
The pay information — first famous by Politico New York — additionally revealed that Fernando Cabrera, Adams’ controversial choose to function a ‘senior advisor’ to the newly created workplace Mayor’s Workplace of Religion-Based mostly and Neighborhood Partnerships, will make $228,000.
Cabrera infamously traveled to Uganda in 2014 and complemented the nation’s “Godly” management after it accredited a controversial legislation that barred the “promotion” of homosexuality and allowed for the execution of LGBT people.
That made his appointment to a metropolis company a no-go from a public relations standpoint and weeks later Adams employed him on as an adviser.
He’s getting a bigger wage within the adviser position than Adams’ press secretary, Levy, who makes $200,000 yearly; the $201,000 made by high advisor, Menashe Shapiro; or the $211,000 made by head of communications Maxwell Younger.
“Fernando’s wage is inside the wage band of different senior advisors within the administration,” stated Levy.
Banks, in the meantime, was as soon as the NYPD’s Chief of Division — the highest uniformed place on the power — and thought of a possible candidate to be commissioner.
Then, he unexpectedly resigned in 2014 as he turned a key determine in a sprawling police corruption case that finally traced its path all the way in which into the administration of then-Mayor de Blasio.
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