We want to give you an update on
an FBI raid of a New York
Police Department headquarters that
happened just yesterday.
One of the men who's apparently at
the center of this raid and
the investigation attached to it
has now stepped down.
This is the Sergeants Benevolent
Association President Ed Mullins
resigned at the request of
the union's board.
They said that in a letter to their
membership late yesterday.
Now, we don't have a lot of very
specific granular information
about the objective of the raid or
the investigation attached to it.
Although we do know that it's
connected to an investigation by
the FBI as well as the public
corruption unit in the US
attorney's office in Manhattan.
That's according to two different
sources.
And even the board seems to be
a little bit in the dark.
They say, the nature and scope of
this criminal investigation is yet
to be determined.
However, it is clear that President
Mullins is apparently the target of
the federal investigation.
We have no reason to believe that
any other member of the SBA
is involved or
targeted in this matter.
So why don't we start with that,
Adrienne?
Again, we don't know much.
I just sort of assume for better or
worse, because this involves
the Public Corruption Unit,
the FBI, and that sort of thing,
that you might have more
information than me.
Other than the fact that there
seems to be a corruption angle
to this,
have you picked up on anything?
>> Like you said,
I don't know much, but I know
somebody is probably going to go to
prison, that's for sure.
because the US Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York,
they do not play.
And also the fact that he stepped
down after his home was also raided
yesterday, Mullins, you know what?
All I'm smelling right now is what
they call Rico.
I see all sorts of charges, all
sorts of corruption, racketeering
it's going to be a good old time.
They're going to be up in court,
it'll be dockets for days.
Mullins, I'm sure his lawyered up,
and that these are just my
suspicions.
Knowing how it works with the US
Attorney's Office and also for FBI
raids, and also to raid a police
union headquarters and the union
headquarters head guys home.
Nah, nah, nah,
it's going to be good times.
This is going,
you know what it will do?
It will spark a lot of Law and
Order episodes.
That's what will happen.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, well,
you have your suspicions.
I have speculations of my favorite
brand of, that is baseless.
So look, they're the fifth biggest
cop union in the country,
I imagine, that attach to that is
quite a bit of money.
That seems to me as a person who
knows very little like the most
likely part of this is misuse of
funds, something like that.
I don't know,
does that seem likely?
>> I could definitely see that.
I could see some kind of organized
corruption ring going on, whether
it includes funds or maybe pay for
play kind of situations.
I just think that whatever is going
on that there are a lot of people
involved and people will be cutting
deals right and
left, because the FBI would not go
this far unless they had something.
And also, we have to remember,
this is law enforcement on law
enforcement.
How likely is that to happen,
unless there is
truly a guilty verdict coming out
of the back end of this?
>> Okay, and you'd love to see it.
Well, okay, let's try to get
a little bit more information about
what might've been included,
bearing in mind the person that
this is focused on.
Now, first of all, to be fair,
the union's board had a letter that
said this.
Like all of us, Ed Mellon's is
entitled to the presumption of
innocence and we ask you to
withhold judgment until all the
facts have been established, no.
However, the day to day functioning
and the important business of
the SBA cannot be distracted by the
existence of this investigation.
That's fine, you go back to doing
whatever you're doing.
I don't know what that is,
but I assume it's probably bad,
not in the interest of people who
aren't cops.
In any event,
they say that he's entitled
the presumption of innocence.
That is a statement that I'm
going to challenge, because
everyone technically is entitled to
the presumption of innocence.
That's true, but in practice,
obviously we get to evaluate what
we know about people.
And so we're going to provide
a little bit of information about
Ed Mullins.
And I'm going to try to not say
Ed Rollins every single time here.
One thing that this apparently is
not attached to, although it would
be spicy if it was,
is this news from a few days ago.
The headline,
De Blasio vows full investigation
after data leak appears to link to
NYPD officers to the Oath Keepers.
So the good news is that it's not
attached.
The bad news is that, man,
there's multiple scandals hitting
them all simultaneously.
In any event, Mullins,
this is not the first time he's
made news as the head of the SBA.
So back in 2020,
he posted the arrest report of de
Blasios daughter Chiara de Blasio,
on social media following her
arrest during George Floyd
protests, Mullins was hit
with departmental charges for
the violation of NYPD rules.
So he just decided that he would
personally take this and post on
social media for people to read and
gloat over, Adrienne, I guess.
It's a weirdly specific and
spiteful flex for
a guy who has been the head of this
major union for
close to two decades at that point.
>> Yeah, because she had
participated, essentially in
the marches of last year.
Sure, it's an effort to try to dox
her in some way.
But the thing is, Chiara de Blasio,
she is a citizen,
she's entitled to speak out and
to use her first amendment rights.
And so to punish her by putting her
information on blast,
that just speaks to the kind of man
Mullins is.
>> Yeah, exactly.
People get to participate, like she
as a citizen might go to one of
these marches for racial justice.
Lots of cops
participated in the insurrection.
I mean, everybody participates in
their own way Mullins.
It's America, anyway.
>> Yeah, one's illegal and
one's not.
>> Exactly, that's true, I suppose
that's important context as well.
Now let's see.
In another instance during
the pandemic, this is all recent
stuff by the way, for Mullins.
Mullins tweeted the city's health
commissioner was a, bitch who had
blood on her hands after she
sparred with the NYPD over half a
million hospital-grade face masks.
So cool.
Look, I don't know his own personal
position on some of the stuff
related to the pandemic.
I do know anecdotally that police
departments seem
like of all government agencies
the least interested in
complying with any of this or
taking the pandemic seriously.
That's sort of what I'd picked up
over time.
And I will also point out that
the whole de Blasio thing seems
kind of personal to Mullins.
So at one point,
the SBA NYPD Twitter account had
tweeted saying it was his comments.
Mayor de Blasio, the members of
the NYPD are declaring war on you,
we do not respect you,
do not visit us in hospitals.
You sold the NYPD to the vile
creatures, the 1% who hate cops but
vote for you.
NYPD cops have been assassinated
because of you, this isn't over,
game on.
And this was following a shooting,
I believe in February of 2020 that
targeted cops.
So, Adrienne,
he's a real piece of work.
>> For real, and
I don't know who tweeted that out.
Was that an intern?
It's just like, are you kidding?
What is going on here?
Not the most professional response
on the platform, no matter how you
feel about the mayor.
But I think Mullins, he's not
a good look for the organization,
the union, I wonder what is going
to happen here?
I do as I've indicated think,
a lot of heads will roll.
But as far as Mullins goes and
the FBI, the FBI,
they really don't come to play
in this kind of situation.
And I think the investigation
probably has been going on
for months.
>> Sure.
>> So having all of these things
also come out, it just really shows
you that they probably,
they might know what they're doing.
>> Okay, well,
I'm going to give you two more fun
little tidbits before move on.
One is that, Ritchie Torres,
a Democratic Representative
tweeted, Ed Mullins, who famously
called me a first-class whore for
daring to ask questions about
the SBA, just got a first class
raid from the FBI.
That's just fun, I like that.
[LAUGH] That's good.
That's Ken Klippensteinian.
And also, to give you
an idea of who this person is.
Is it possible that something on
a mug could tell you everything
you need to know about a person?
I don't know, you can tell from my
mug that I drink too strong coffee.
Some people prefer to talk about
other parts of their personality or
their worldview.
So, back in July, 2020,
he gave an interview with Fox News.
And totally accidentally, in the
background you can see something.
Do you see it?
It's a QAnon mug with the hashtag,
when we go one, we all go crazy and
estrange ourselves from our
families.
Yeah, that was just in
the background.
But even if it was accidental,
that's bad enough, I have
a feeling that it was intentional.
He's trying to send a message to
these crazies that he's one
of them.
That's fun, Adrienne, for
a guy heading up one of the biggest
copy unions.
>> Seriously he's going
from crackpot crazy mugs to what,
bad mug shots, I'm sure soon-
>> Unless he gets it together,
It'll be like that.
>> Your a regular Ritchie Torres.
[LAUGH] Yeah, and
not to spoil the fun, but
it's one thing for a random crazy
to be a fan of the QAnon thing.
But when you're a leader of cops,
law enforcement, all that.
I do want to remind everyone that
the core the QAnon thing is that
inevitably there will be a great
storm, where all of the evil people
are rounded up and executed.
So having the guy, he
used to be a cop believing it and
still leads cops up until today.
That's fun, that's fun.