NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban has now officially resigned following news that federal agents searched his home as part of a criminal investigation. Now, he hasn't been charged with anything. But according to a local NBC news affiliate out of New York, [00:00:16] the IRS and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York searched Gabon, and at least one phone belonging to him was among several. The Southern District of New York and IRS seized from multiple NYPD officials. [00:00:33] His twin brother, who owns a nightclub security business, also had his phone seized in this corruption investigation. Now, before I move any further, I just want to let you all know that there are multiple separate investigations, [00:00:48] federal investigations taking place in New York City right now, and the details are very limited. Not a lot of people are talking. We kind of have a broad idea of what these investigations are about. But as the story develops, of course we'll fill you in on all of the updates. [00:01:06] Hey, don't scroll away. Come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to TYT. You power our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team and we love you for it. - Now Jake thoughts before I continue. - Yeah so I guess he's gone. [00:01:26] - Oh my you. - Interrupted me for that. No, not for that. Okay, so guys, I think I have the answers here. There's two reasons stated for why he might have been fired. One is definitely true and the other is not. So I want to let Anna present what those two different things are, and then we'll break down what the reality is. [00:01:43] All right. So now several sources tell NBC News New York that federal investigators want to know if his twin brother, James, profited from his ties to his powerful brother as the commissioner of the NYPD. So James Coburn also was also a cop, by the way, but he was fired [00:02:03] from the police department back in 2001. So specifically, the investigation is looking into whether James Coburn, that is the twin brother of the now resigned Edward Coburn, was paid by bars and clubs in Midtown and Queens to act as a police liaison. [00:02:22] And if those clubs were then afforded special treatment by local precincts, the sources said. Other questions being investigated include whether or not officers were being asked to crack down harder on clubs that did not do business [00:02:37] with the commissioner's brother, or if promotions were given to officers who played along with this potential scheme, according to the sources. So again, I want to reiterate. Okay. Coburn has not been charged with anything yet, which is why Eric Adams, the mayor of [00:02:53] New York City, didn't push him to resign. But eventually he apparently decided to resign and claim that he did so because he didn't want to serve as a distraction. I mean, there are other separate federal investigations going on right now in New York City. And here's what he said in his statement. [00:03:08] Quote, my complete focus must be on the NYPD, the department I profoundly honor and have dedicated my career to serving. However, the noise around recent developments has made that impossible and has hindered the important work our city requires. [00:03:25] I have therefore decided it is in the best interest of the Department that I resign as Commissioner. To give you some more information about Korban, he was actually appointed by Eric Adams last July, and his appointment came after the previous police commissioner stepped down, [00:03:41] citing micromanaging from Eric Adams and his administration. Eric Adams denies that there was any micromanaging going on. I don't know too many details about that. And honestly, it doesn't matter for the purposes of this particular story. Adams didn't pressure Cuban to step down, and he said his decision to avoid doing so [00:03:58] had to do with the fact that Cuban was never charged with a crime. He might be in the future. We don't know. Obviously, this investigation is ongoing, but during Cabana's tenure, he was a bit of a mixed bag, a bit of a mixed bag. So on one hand, he did manage to decrease violent crime in the area, including [00:04:18] instances of homicide, which is good. But on the other end of that, you have a lot of complaints toward him for failing to hold police accountable, especially when there was reason to believe that police were engaging in shady behavior. So ProPublica details a story about how the NYPD has killed more [00:04:38] than 400 police misconduct cases this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. And they also detail that these civilian misconduct complaints include an instance of an officer punching a man in the groin, and the oversight agency looked into that. [00:04:58] In another, an officer unjustifiably tackled a young man, and then another officer wrongly stopped and searched him. And some episodes, like the officers using chokeholds and also beating protesters with batons, were so serious that this oversight board concluded that [00:05:15] the police had likely committed crimes. And the practice of, you know, killing these types of complaints has been going on for the past three years, but it really escalated. The amount increased significantly under Cabana's leadership. [00:05:30] So since he took office last July, the NYPD has ended without review more than 500 incidents, about half the cases. The oversight board referred to it, according to an analysis of board data. The rate has actually climbed, though, under Cabana to nearly 60% this year. [00:05:49] Under Cabana's predecessor, Assessor. The department faced roughly the same number of cases, but about 40% were tossed out without review. Yeah, if he gets arrested, I hope he can make a bond. Why do I do that? All right, now, let me get serious. [00:06:06] Look, as you can tell, there's two different issues. First, let me address the one that's super egregious and not the one he was fired for. So the one that Anna just told you about with this civilian review board has a whole bunch of cases that they have already verified as cops doing something wrong to the police, [00:06:23] and then they're supposed to police themselves, which is hilarious. First thing that they do is they dismiss 60% of them out of the gate without even looking at them. Yeah. Remember, these are verified cases, right? How is that okay? They just throw 60% of them in the trash. Okay, now there's 40% left on. [00:06:40] One of the reasons is because we want to take the most serious cases. Right? So we retain the serious cases. No. When you look into it, they retain the serious cases where they can find a flaw, and the minute they find a flaw, they go, okay, that's it. Either no punishment or tiny little punishment. [00:06:56] They're like, oh, the ones with a lot of evidence. Golly gee, that leads to number three. We ran out of time. Okay, so now they say, look, we you're giving us only 60 days sometimes. And we can't do this in 60 days. We give you guys 400 days to civilian review board. [00:07:12] The part they don't tell you is that they, the Civilian Review Board says, give us the evidence, like the body cam footage, and they hold it for like 300, 350 days until the statute of limitations is almost run out. And then at the end, they give him the evidence and go, oh, you better hurry. [00:07:28] You better hurry. Oh, no, you didn't make it in time. Sorry. Most serious cases also thrown out. So by the end there's almost no cases. But even when the civilian review boards chair complained about that, Eric Adams said, oh, that's an interesting idea. You're fired. Yeah. And he and he pushed her out. And then he said, oh, by the way, I'm cutting your funding [00:07:45] so you can't hire any more people. Listen, Eric Adams promised you the trash revolution. And it's here. It's here. Well, yeah, I mean, carbon is one of the pieces of trash taken out, but he was a trash brought in by Eric Adams. Exactly. Yeah. So? So Eric Adams and Carbon have been terrible on stop and frisk. [00:08:01] Look, we like good policing. We love when the crime rate goes down. We love when, you know, working class neighborhoods are safer, but you're not making them safer by doing stop and frisk almost exclusively on blacks and Latinos and throwing out egregious cases of police abuse that doesn't make anybody safer. [00:08:17] Okay. Now, is that why he was fired? Come on. You guys all know better than that, right? Nobody cares about police abuse. Nobody's getting fired over that. No, he got fired for the nightclub stuff. Now. Why? Hey, nightclub owners paying the cops more to protect their place. That's called Tuesday. That's not the issue. [00:08:34] The issue is the guys who didn't pay his twin brother. Maybe they get a police crackdown and find out. Maybe they should be paying his brother. Terrible. Okay. And that's unacceptable. That's why the federal authorities are looking into it. Now, if you're a right winger, you think, oh yeah, Deep State. [00:08:49] This guy's maybe he's a Trump supporter. No, none of that. These are all Democrats, right. And guys, not everything the FBI does or federal authorities do is deep state. In fact, none of it is deep state. But that's a whole nother debate, right? No. Here they are busting bad guys who are extorting local businesses [00:09:06] while pretending to be cops. - Exactly. - Yeah, right. And that's terrible. And of course, you got to regulate on that. Yeah. If it's happening, allegedly. Obviously it's an ongoing investigation. You just want to clear that up. But I'm sure that he resigned because of the stop and frisk problem. Right. Okay, so the mayor, Eric Adams, did have a press conference today [00:09:25] to talk about the resignation, but also to name the interim police commissioner. And so that individual will be Tom Donilon, who has experience in law enforcement at the local, state and federal level. They wanted to ensure that they picked someone who wasn't within the NYPD [00:09:43] in order to, you know, prevent any concern about corruption and have an outsider come in and serve in that role as the, again, interim police commissioner. But I do want to just briefly discuss some of the other investigations. And with the other investigations, it's honestly even less clear what's going on. [00:10:03] So you might have seen some of the headlines. I wanted to wait before covering it, because I don't like covering stories that don't have enough details. But I'll tell you what we know so far. So let's begin with what happened just last year in November. Eric Adams was investigated and some of his devices were seized [00:10:22] as a result of that investigation. And that separate federal investigation is centered on possible corruption and illegal campaign finance. So the allegation is that Turkey illegally funneled money to Eric Adams. [00:10:38] Okay, let's move on. Let's move on. Okay. Am I allowed to act like supporters of other countries and just say, no criticism. You're being anti-turkish. Dude, what's up with Turkey and Azerbaijan? Turkey. Turkey and Azerbaijan. What do you guys. [00:10:53] What are you guys up to? You guys are bribing a lot of our politicians. A lot of people are getting implicated with me. It's not just that they're alleged to be from Texas. Yeah, it's not just that they're alleged to have Azerbaijan bribing Henry Cuellar, Turkey with Eric Adams, etc., [00:11:08] but it's also that they're dumb at it, like so dumb. Hey, take a page out of apex book. No, no, don't. Do not take a page out of Apex Book. No. In all seriousness, guys, of course not. I hate that AIPAC found a loophole where they could just funnel hundreds [00:11:26] of millions of dollars to our politicians and have them serve a foreign country, but these knuckleheads in Turkey and Azerbaijan, they're like, we give you money. No, brother, this thing is bribery is basically legal in America, but they still haven't figured it out right now. Separately, the home of the First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, and the Deputy Mayor [00:11:45] for Public Safety Philip Banks were also searched and devices were seized as part of that search. As well, there are allegations of corruption. Even less is known about like how that alleged corruption was playing out. Phil Banks, by the way, has faced scrutiny before when he was [00:12:03] in the New York Police Department. Federal prosecutors had referred to him as an unindicted coconspirator, but they never charged him in that corruption case involving two businessmen who provided gifts and vacations. And then there are also a lot of unanswered questions. [00:12:19] But corruption and influence peddling seems to be at the heart of all of these investigations. And there are separate investigations currently taking place by federal investigators in New York City. - Trash revolution. - Thanks for watching. If you become a member, you get to watch all this ad free. [00:12:35] Except for, of course, this ad still hit the join button below.