What a surprise!

That guarantees his re-election, I think.

Corruption? I’m shocked!

I'm surprised they didn't just let 'em slide.
It's not like we can trust them to be honest.

Commissioner does NOT approve

Your thread title should read PHONES not homes. While homes were raided neither the Commissioner’s nor Chief’s homes were raided.
At least according to the article.

Granted you have to scroll through so much garbage on that page to actually read 4 sentences in a row it’s hard to tell but there is a big difference between seizing a phone and raiding someone’s home.

The FBI is likely interested in little more than seizing evidence so it can be safely store away from any chance of being used for prosecution.

Probably more politically motivated than anything else since Adams made a big stink about Biden's lack of support to NYC and their problem with an army of illegals taking up residency.

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Probably more politically motivated than anything else since Adams made a big stink about Biden's lack of support to NYC and their problem with an army of illegals taking up residency.

Nailed it. Adams got off the democrat plantation and now needs to be corrected. It is scary what the Dems do when they have power.



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Originally posted by calugo:
Probably more politically motivated than anything else since Adams made a big stink about Biden's lack of support to NYC and their problem with an army of illegals taking up residency.

Friend of mine in NYC reminded me, that Adams was the moderate candidate during the election, loosing to progressive & NYT endorsed Kathryn Garcia by .8%. Adams has been rather...strident in his talk about stemming the tide of illegals flooding the city and the country; surely upsetting the taste-makers and paymasters in their ivory-towers.

Eric pissed off Ole sleepy Joe, well actually the Krimson Kenyan, little lawfare, treat him like a conservative he'll get the message.

I believe this started a year or so ago when the FBI grabbed Adams iPad and other technology. I dont remember seeing much else of this story after.

https://lists.theepochtimes.co...3SBI8Sbkr/l2yZKNF2JF

New York Police Commissioner Resigns Amid Federal Probe

After days of mounting pressure, Edward Caban will step down amid an investigation affecting several members of Mayor Eric Adams’s administration.


NEW YORK—New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban on Sept. 12 resigned from his position, days after his phone was seized in a federal investigation.

Caban said he made the decision to resign after the “news around recent developments” had “created a distraction for our department,” according to an email to the police department obtained by The Associated Press.

“I am unwilling to let my attention be on anything other than our important work, or the safety of the men and women of the NYPD,” he added.

The Epoch Times has contacted the New York Police Department for more details.

New York Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday that he accepted Caban’s resignation. “I respect his decision and I wish him well,” he said in a streamed appearance from the Mayor’s mansion.

Caban had been on the job for a little over a year, having been appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in July 2023.

The resignation comes as part of a federal probe of high-ranking members of the Adams administration.

On Sept. 4, federal law enforcement officials seized Caban’s phone and those of his brother James, Adams’s first deputy mayor, schools chancellor, and others close to the mayor.

Federal agents also raided the homes of several administration officials. Federal authorities have not disclosed the subject of the investigation or whether there are multiple probes.

In response, the mayor’s office reportedly organized an emergency meeting with about 50 members of his administration to discuss how to continue to govern as the probe progressed.

In the days leading up to the resignation, members of the New York City Council, which has feuded repeatedly with the mayor over issues such as solitary confinement in the city’s jails, the accommodation of migrants from out of state, and the recording of data on persons whom the police arrest, pushed for Caban to step down.

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Eric pissed off Ole sleepy Joe, well actually the Krimson Kenyan, little lawfare, treat him like a conservative he'll get the message.

This started when Adams started complaining about the illegal migrants in NYC and he said the Federal government needs to do something about it. They did; they detained him and executed search warrants on his belongings including his cell phone. After that, he went all quiet about what the Federal government should do.

This is just about a year after that and it dovetails nicely with Garland's announcement today how he's incensed at accusations that the DOJ is politically biased.

What't the procedure for getting into these seized phones? Are Apple and Google helping the FBI now? I sure wouldn't be giving up my password, with or without a warrant. And if the FBI took my iPhone, I could buy another in an hour and just back it up from my iCloud. I guess I wouldn't be legally able to delete anything, but I could keep my phone going.

Why not? Worked for Hillary.

The feds never came after Clinton, and iPhones were in their infancy then, if they even existed. IIRC, she had her staffers smash their Blackberries with hammers. The devices never got into the FBI's custody.

This is Soviet Union KGB style tactics. The damn Democrats in this country better wake up and realize even they won't be safe in the future if this continues.

This all started when Adams went off the Dem's plantation and started criticizing the Biden administration over the failed border policies. Unbelievable the depths they will go to, and the people they will destroy to get to one man.



Feds’ raid of interim NYPD commissioner for ‘old documents’ just days after he took job suggests ‘it’s open season on Adams’

https://nypost.com/2024/09/22/...me-raises-questions/

A raid on the home of the Big Apple’s interim police commissioner has raised eyebrows – coming just days after he took the job and as investigations swirl around Adams administration officials, The Post has learned.

Interim commissioner Thomas Donlon said in a Saturday night statement that federal authorities had taken from him “materials that came into my possession 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department” — one week after his predecessor stepped down over a seemingly unrelated raid.

Sources told The Post that agents had been searching for classified documents Donlon may have brought home during his years with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security — but that explanation has left a lot of law enforcement officers scratching their heads.

“The same federal agencies that ‘recommended’ Donlon to Adams also executed the warrant — less than a week after Donlon’s appointment — to search his house for 20-year-old documents,” one source said, adding that Southern District of New York head Damian Williams actually backed Mayor Eric Adams’ commish choice before he announced it.

“I can hear the agents laughing while they’re torturing the mayor,” the source continued. “It’s open season on Adams at the SDNY and FBI.”

The same source said Donlon “clearly pissed off the wrong people at the FBI,” which led the investigators to throw “another grenade in Adams’ lap and pull the [pin].”

“Donlon was collateral damage,” the source said.

Adams tapped Donlon, an NYPD outsider, to take over as the city’s interim commissioner on Sept. 12 — the same day former commissioner Edward Caban abruptly resigned because of a federal investigation that has focused on him, his brother and several other close allies and top lieutenants of the embattled mayor.

Federal agents had seized Caban’s electronic devices as part of what sources say is a sweeping corruption probe into potential influence peddling — an inquiry that’s also ensnared Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, Schools Chancellor David Banks and their brother Terence Banks, as well as former NYPD official Tim Pearson and First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright.

None have been accused of crimes and it’s still not clear if the investigations are connected to one another.

Donlon — who had been running a private security company following his retirement from federal service — was yanked back into the public eye by his appointment as New York’s top cop.

On Sunday, Donlon ignored The Post as he walked out of his Upper East Side apartment — and refused to answer questions about the raid.

Some sources said the raid on his place was the feds’ way of telling Adams that nobody in his orbit is safe.

But others claimed it was just the result of a vetting process for renewed clearances — criminality had nothing to do with it.

Not everyone believed that though.

“They don’t search your house when they do security clearance,” said Joseph Pistone, the legendary FBI agent known as “Donnie Brasco” who infiltrated the Mafia in the 1970s and 1980s.

“If I were doing a background ingestion on Tom, I’d say he’s straightforward and loves his country,” said Pistone, who’s known Donlon since 1974.

“I’m flabbergasted. He’s been out of the bureau for 15 years, and look at all the positions he’s had,” he continued. “I don’t have enough good things to say about the guy.

“And now he gets appointed police commissioner, and a week later he gets his house searched,” he said. “I have no idea why they would do a search at his house. It’s nuts.”

Mark Carroll, a former assistant US attorney and retired FBI agent, echoed Pistone’s words when he called Donlon an “upstanding member of the law enforcement community, and as principled a person as they come.”

“That makes no sense,” Carroll said of the raid. “I had the highest level of clearance. I have no good way to explain it.

“It would absolutely shock me if he did anything wrong.”