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These are Adams officials who resigned amid federal investigations and staff confusion

These are Adams officials who resigned amid federal investigations and staff confusion

Allies, advisers and lieutenants of Mayor Eric Adams, who last week became the first mayor in New York history to be charged with corruption, have not had it easy.

Hizzoner’s woes follow a series of resignations and departures of administration officials, several of whom have been embroiled in investigations.

Eric Adams’s legal troubles fell on his top administration officials. Stephen Yang

Here is a list of former officials who left the Adams administration.

Timothy Pearson

Pearson, a secret confidant and one of Adams’ top advisers, resigned Monday amid an ever-escalating federal corruption investigation that has besieged City Hall.

A retired New York City police inspector oversaw security contracts for migrant shelters, and now the feds are investigating whether he allegedly interfered with the selection of contractors in exchange for bribes.

The allegations echo an account detailed in the April lawsuit in which Pearson told employees of the Utility Assessment Unit that he wanted to line his own pockets.

Tim Pearson Brigitte Stelzer

“People are very good at these contracts,” Pearson said, according to the lawsuit. “I have to get mine. Where are my crumbs?”

The feds broke into his home in early September and confiscated his phones in a series of raids that targeted several other city officials and Adams allies.

He remained in his position for weeks, but this week he finally announced his departure.

Pearson’s last day on the job is Friday.

Edward Caban

Former New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban stepped down last month following a federal raid on his home and intense pressure from City Hall.

A week before he left, feds seized Caban’s electronic devices as part of what sources say was a corruption probe examining potential influence peddling.

Caban, an NYPD vet of more than three decades, left the top spot about a year after Adams selected him to replace outgoing Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who left in June 2023.

Edward Caban James Keivom

“I have enormous respect and gratitude for the brave officers serving in this department, and the NYPD deserves someone who can focus solely on protecting and serving New York City, which is why – for the good of this city and this department – I have made the difficult decision to resign as commissioner police,” Caban wrote in an email to police.

Caban – the city’s first Latino commissioner – has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

But the feds are also keeping an eye on his twin brother, James, who allegedly worked as a “fixer” in Manhattan’s fancy restaurants and nightclubs and had problems with police.

David Banks

Crisis-ridden city schools Chancellor David Banks announced last week that he would leave office at the end of the year – a decision he apparently made just weeks after the feds’ call.

Banks, who married first deputy mayor Sheena Wright over the weekend, saw agents break into his Harlem home on Sept. 4 and confiscate both of his cellphones.

Banks then claimed the feds told him he was not a target and responded to The Post’s questions about whether he would resign because of that.

David Banks Robert Miller

But he later said he had planned to leave from the beginning.

“At our meeting earlier this year, I informed you that I intend to retire at the end of this calendar year, after ensuring that the school year has gotten off to a good start,” Banks wrote in his retirement letter.

“I have decided to retire effective December 31, 2024 after nearly 40 years of service in New York City Public Schools.”

The feds also confiscated phones belonging to two of his brothers: Terence Banks, a former MTA official turned consultant; and Philip Banks, Mayor Adams’ deputy for public safety.

Neither Banks brother has been charged with a crime.

Lisa Zornberg

Zornberg, a top adviser to City Hall, left the administration just days after Cabana.

A former senior federal prosecutor in Manhattan, she had served as the city’s chief lawyer since July 2023.

But she fired only the feds focused on Adams’ inner circle – a move sources say she made because Adams balked at pushing out allegedly troublesome lieutenants Phil Banks, Tim Pearson and Winnie Greco, the city’s director of Asian affairs.

Lisa Zornberg Paweł Martinka

An exhausted Zornberg was thinking about leaving the chaotic and increasingly troubled administration and decided to resign on Saturday evening on September 14, political sources said.

“I am resigning with effect from today because I have concluded that I can no longer effectively perform my function,” Zornberg wrote in his resignation letter.

Zornberg does not appear to be embroiled in the federal investigation and has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

Ashwin Vasan

Vasan, the city’s health commissioner, also announced last week that he would resign at the end of the year.

Ashwin Vasan Getty Images for Concordia Summit

He has served as the Big Apple’s chief medical officer since March 2022 and does not appear to be connected to any federal investigation.

Still, Vasan told the mayor he would remain in office while Adams searched for a successor.