Former Deputy Mayor for Public Security Phil Banks — who give up beneath a cloud of corruption suspicion — urged the general public to not belief the media.
“Would you blindfold yourself and eat whatever someone fed you? No? Then stop letting the media do it to you,” learn the ominous picture shared through X by the scandal-scarred ex-official.
Banks, 62, was amongst a number of high Adams’ administration officers focused by investigators in sprawling probes final yr, with federal brokers raiding his Queens residence in September.
The feds have been eyeing whether or not Banks directed metropolis contracts value lots of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to corporations repped by his youthful brother Terrence’s consulting agency, sources beforehand advised The Put up.
Banks, who had an antagonistic relationship with the press throughout his practically three years in Metropolis Corridor, stepped down in October.
He has not been charged with any crimes associated to the federal investigations.
“It’s only when he’s criticized that he believes the media has no place in our society,” Sarena Townsend, a former metropolis Correction Division deputy commissioner, advised The Put up.
“I’m sure he loved being in the media when it covered him in a positive light.”
Banks mentioned he doesn’t “like or dislike the media but the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t trust the media,” later including, “I like bad publicity.”
