NYC first deputy mayor Sheena Wright resigns as Eric Adams administration suffers more departures: report

New York City's first deputy mayor, Sheena Wright, reportedly resigned from her position on Tuesday after the FBI raided her home in early September. She becomes the latest high-ranking official to leave Mayor Eric Adams' administration as he faces federal corruption allegations.

Wright's reported resignation comes just days after her husband, New York City Public Schools Chancellor David Banks, announced in October that he would step down earlier than expected. The New York Times reports, citing sources, that Wright is expected to be replaced by Maria Torres-Springer, the current deputy mayor for housing, economic development and workforce.

When asked about the matter Tuesday morning, the mayor's office told Fox News Digital that “no announcement is final until it is made.”

Winnie Greco, the mayor's Asian affairs director, also resigned from her position on Monday, according to the New York Post.

Her attorney, Steven Brill — who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital on Tuesday — told The City that Greco “has officially resigned … of his own volition.”

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Sheena Wright attend Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2023 in New York City on December 31, 2022. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for Dick Clark Productions)

On the same day, Rena Abbasova, an Adams employee who worked in the international affairs office, was fired from her job. Sources told Fox News that she was fired because she is the “key cooperating witness” in the Adams federal investigation.

Mohamed Bahi, a senior New York City Hall official, also resigned on Monday. This morning, federal prosecutors announced that they have unsealed a lawsuit accusing him of “witness tampering and destruction of evidence in connection with a federal investigation into unlawful donations to a particular 2021 mayoral campaign.”

“If there were no vulnerabilities here, no one would have to resign,” former NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor Paul Mauro told Fox News Digital. “Of course, a lot of them try to say, 'Oh, I was going to go anyway' – but these are all people from (Adams' inner circle) and this is the team he's put together to run the city.” And The fact that they are leaving early while he is normally preparing for re-election cannot, in my opinion, be said to be business as usual. It's quite obvious that something serious is going on.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is flanked by Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright (left) and advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin during his weekly in-person press conference in the City Hall Blue Room on March 5, 2024 in New York. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Adams is awaiting arraignment on five counts of fraud, bribery and corruption, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

The 64-year-old mayor is accused of soliciting illegal campaign donations from foreign companies and falsifying documents to cover it up. As part of the conspiracy, he is alleged to have defrauded taxpayers of $10 million over the past decade, often taking free or heavily discounted vacations financed by his foreign patrons.

Adams said in a video statement that all charges against him were “completely false and based on lies,” and he suggested that his criticism of the Biden administration's disastrous border policies made him a target of retaliation.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives in federal court on October 2 in New York City after being charged with bribery and illegally soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national. (REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs)

The New York Times quoted the mayor in a statement released Tuesday as saying, “We are grateful for First Deputy Mayor Wright's years of service to the city and for all she has done to support children, families and workers.” . “Great New Yorker.”

“She is an exceptional leader who has assembled a strong team and always demonstrated a bold vision for this city,” he reportedly added.

The mayor's office states on its website that Wright has served in the administration since January 2022, first as deputy mayor for strategic initiatives and then as first deputy mayor beginning in January 2023.

“During her time in the administration, she helped launch the first phase of the MyCity portal, a one-stop shop where New Yorkers can easily apply for and track City services and benefits. She has helped the city achieve important goals.” Blueprint for child care and early childhood education in New York City—most notably by eliminating an overcrowded waiting list for vouchers and enabling families of 36,000 children to access low-cost, high-quality child care to apply,” says her biography.

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Wright, a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia Law School, “was also previously the first female president and CEO of United Way of New York City,” it said.

Fox News' Alexis McAdams, Michael Ruiz and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.