Qatar paid for NYPD commissioner’s Middle East trips after Adams admin was mum on who picked up tab

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Qatar paid for NYPD commissioner’s Middle East trips after Adams admin was mum on who picked up tab
By Social Links for Craig McCarthy
Published Aug. 1, 2024, 5:04 p.m. ET
New York Post

The Qatari government paid for the Big Apple’s top cop (Edward Caban) to visit the Middle East — part of a handful of international jaunts kept quiet by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

Police Commissioner Edward Caban jet-setted from New York City a half dozen times last year on the dime of foreign governments or pro-policing groups, according to his annual financial report — which for the first time revealed how some of those trips were funded.

The disclosure, which is required to be filed with the city’s Conflict of Interest Board each year and was obtained by The Post, also revealed three previously unreported trips by the PC to Qatar, Australia and Florida.

The Adams administration has repeatedly refused to say who was picking up the tab for the commissioner’s trips after news emerged of his travel, only saying they came at no cost to New York taxpayers. ...