The mayor’s latest tax returns show he did not claim income on his cookbook, Healthy at Last, which he published in Oct. 2020 even though separate forms he filed with COIB for 2021 indicate he claimed between $5,000 and $50,000 worth of income off a book advance. On his previous annual disclosure report, for 2020, Adams claimed the same income range for the same book, also labeled as a “book advance.”
The Door, a non-profit that offers reproductive health care and other services to adolescents, had contracts worth more than $3.8 million registered with Comptroller Brad Lander’s office since Jan. 27 when it admitted to submitting inaccurate records to the state Health Department raising questions about why Lander and Mayor Adams’ administration would approve of deals with an entity implicated in a “civil fraud action.”
The emergency declaration will suspend certain land use requirements in order for the city to more rapidly construct tent camps to house migrant, such as the controversial facility set to be constructed on Randalls Island, Adams said in a speech from City Hall.
Adams said Banks needs the extraordinary detail because his job involves showing up at crime scenes at all hours of the day. “The role he’s playing, that I need him to play, is extremely unique. It was never in government before, of combining all of my law enforcement efforts together across the city,” Adams told reporters. “A civilian would not be able to carry out that function.”
Police security details are generally reserved for citywide elected officials like the mayor, but Banks, a retired NYPD chief with a scandal-scarred past, has had one at least since June, sources told the Daily News.