NYPD commissioner resigns in the growing corruption scandal. He led the police assault on Columbia University.
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban announced his resignation, one week after federal authorities seized his phone in connection with a probe investigating his twin brother’s business as a nightlife consultant.
Caban was chosen by Mayor Eric Adams to head the NYPD just a year ago.
The IRS and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating Caban and his twin brother, James for corruption.
In fact, the entire Adams administration is under investigation by the feds.
James ran what is referred to as a business consulting firm for nightclubs and music venues. But James and Edward are being looked at by the feds as a protection racket.
The FBI raided Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks’ home last week, as well as the home shared by his brother, Schools Chancellor David Banks and David Banks’ partner, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright.
NYPD commissioner Caban gained a level of notoriety when he led the invasion by NYPD officers on to the campus of Columbia University last Spring. Dozens of student who were protesting U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza were beaten and arrested.
Around eight NYPD officers charged the students in starts and stops. They rapidly herded about 15 students, as well as a Hell Gate reporter and an ACLU legal observer, toward a closed undergraduate dorm, as they insisted the entire group leave campus. A campus security guard intervened and allowed students to return to their actual dorms, immediately.
Two undergraduate students ran back toward the center of campus. “Honestly, [I’m] just terrified,” one of the students, who declined to share his name, said as he ran. “I couldn’t even imagine the school being in this state at this point. Just trying to get back to the dorm and just seeing like a horde of cops just sort of pushing everybody away was pretty surreal to see.”
In June dozens of pro-Palestinian student protesters arrested in Caban’s assault had all criminal charges against them dropped.
Now Caban has resigned and is under federal investigation for corruption.
If Mayor Adams is still around, he is up for re-election in November of next year.