Schools Chancellor David Banks and his then-partner, now-wife Sheena Wright, who is also Adams’ first deputy mayor, had been among the mayor’s first appointments. He tapped Phil Banks, David’s brother, as deputy mayor of public safety, despite scandals that marred his 27-year NYPD career.

Another two aides to Mayor Eric Adams departed City Hall on Monday, a source confirmed. Winnie Greco, a prominent Adams fundraiser and the mayor's director of Asian affairs, resigned. Federal agents searched Greco's two homes in late February and also raided a Flushing mall in connection with an investigation by the Brooklyn U.

Scandal-plagued Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks has resigned, succumbing to weeks of pressure amid federal probes that ensnared both him and his longtime friend Mayor Eric Adams, sources told The Postl.