fachai These Are the N.Y.C. Officials Who Resigned Ahead of the Adams Indictment

A number of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration resigned in September before news of Mr. Adams’s indictment broke. They include:

Edward A. Caban resigned as New York City’s police commissioner on Sept. 12 at the request of City Hall, which asked him to do so after federal investigators seized his phone. News coverage of the investigation had “created a distraction for the department,” Mr. Caban said in an email to members of the Police Department.

Lawyers for Mr. Caban, who was appointed commissioner by Mr. Adams in July 2023, said in a statement that federal prosecutors had told them that he was not a target of the investigation and that he intended to cooperate fully with the authorities.

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