Phillip Banks III, New York City’s deputy mayor and lieutenant to Mayor Eric Adams, is the latest aide to step down since the mayor’s federal indictment and investigation. Adams was charged with bribery and wire fraud last month,

Four more aides to Mayor Adams have left his administration in the past week — a dramatic set of City Hall departures that comes on the heels of multiple other high-level resignations and the mayor’s indictment on federal corruption charges,