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NYC Police Commissioner Edward Caban will step down, source says
NEW YORK — New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban will step down Thursday after federal agents raided the homes of Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle last week, a highly placed police source tells CBS News New York’s Marcia Kramer.
City Hall officials are expected to hold a briefing at 12 p.m. Watch it live on CBS News New York.
The news comes less than a week after U.S. attorneys seized cellphones from the police commissioner and his twin brother, as well as the schools chancellor and two deputy mayors.
A Bronx night club owned by Caban’s twin, James Caban, was also closed by city marshals. Sources say James Caban allegedly worked as a “fixer” for restaurants and nightclubs, smoothing things over between police and popular establishments around noise complaints and other violations.
Edward Caban was sworn in as New York City’s 46th police commissioner in July 2023. He took over for Keechant Sewell and became the first Latino to lead the department.
Earlier this week, the commissioner denied reports he would step down, and the mayor was grilled by reporters about his future with the department.
“Whatever new changes in the administration that will be made, when they come about, we will announce them,” Adams said Tuesday. “At this time, we’re going to continue to do the job that we’re doing in the New York City Police Department. No one does it better.”
Feds raid NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle
Sources tell CBS News New York in addition to the U.S. attorney issuing search warrants for cellphones belonging to Caban and other NYPD top brass, the feds also sent the department an evidence preservation letter, ordering it not to destroy any electronic files.
While that is typical protocol for investigations, sources say additional electronics were removed from the Verizon building near One Police Plaza, which houses the office of Deputy Mayor Philip Banks, one of several members of the mayor’s administration whose homes were raided last week.
Adams said he was not aware of any misdoings by the staff members, including Schools Chancellor David Banks and his fiancé, First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, as well as mayoral advisor Timothy Pearson.
Philip and David Banks are brothers, and their other brother, Terence, also had his home searched, his attorney told The Associated Press.
At this point, no one has been charged, and it’s still a mystery what exactly the feds are looking for.
The FBI and U.S. attorney have declined comment.
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8 decades after her father’s mysterious death in WWII, she finally received answers
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80 years after her father’s death in WWII, she finally learned the where and how
Syracuse, Nebraska — Gerri Eisenhauer’s father, Army Pvt. William Walters, was shipped off to World War II before she was even born.
In 1944, her family got back his body and a U.S. government letter that only said he had died somewhere in France.
“I just always wondered, where he died, how he died, it was just a little part of a puzzle piece that was missing in my life,” Eisenhauer told CBS News.
For decades, the family was resigned to the fact that it would never know. That is, until a few months ago.
Eisenhauer was at her home in Syracuse, Nebraska, this past summer when she received a message from Christophe Ligere, a French historian, from the small village of Grez-sur-Loing, in central France. The message read, in part, “On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of France, we pay tribute to Private William Walters.”
Ligere had found Walters’ name in the diary of an eyewitness to his death, and he immediately felt like he had to find Walters’ family. Ligere conducted some research and located the Walters’ family tree, and from there he found the online obituary of another relative of Eisenhauer, through which he left her that message.
“We were looking for our soldier,” Eisenhauer’s daughter, Jan Moore, told CBS News. “We did not know that he was their soldier, too.”
As Eisenhauer learned from Ligere, in August 1944, American troops began liberating the village of Grez-sur-Loing. It was a joyous day, but there was one casualty: while crossing the Loing River into town, Walters’ boat capsized and he drowned at the age of 20.
After Ligere tracked down Walters’ family, he invited them to France to honor their shared hero and the sacrifice he made here. Eisenhauer and her daughter and son, Jan and Allen, made the trip in September.
Marc Perrot had witnessed Walters’ death at the age of 13.
“They went looking for him and found him,” Perrot explained in an interview with France Télévisions. “They did a lot of things to try to revive him, but it didn’t work.”
Perrot met Eisenhauer and showed her where they laid her father to rest prior to his body being returned to the U.S.
“They covered him with flowers,” Eisenhauer said of the French. “It’s just amazing, the care that they gave him.”
This week, Eisenhauer returned to her father’s grave in Cass County, Nebraska.
“First time I’ve been here and had the answers,” Eisenhauer said.
She says she now feels at peace, and it’s all thanks to the grateful people of France, who even 80 years on, still see the U.S. through the prism of our better angels.
“It’s very important because the…young people come from the US…to battle for democracy…in France,” Ligere told CBS News.