NYPD Sergeants Union Raided By FBI: Reports

NEW YORK CITY — FBI agents raided the Sergeants Benevolent Association police union's headquarters and president's home on Tuesday, according to reports.

The divisive union headed by the controversial Ed Mullins is the subject of an"ongoing investigation," an FBI spokesperson told the New York Daily News, which first reported on the raid.

FBI agents were spotted at the union's Manhattan office and Mullins' home in Long Island. Further details on the raids had yet to be divulged.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who frequently clashed with Mullins, declined to give a reaction when twice asked for comment during his morning briefing.

"I don't know the specifics," he said. "I don't know who it's directed at. I want to really hear the details before I comment further."

The sergeants union is inextricably linked to Mullins, whose scorched earth leadership has defined it for decades.

Mullins, among other controversies, faces legal action over offensive Twitter posts in which he called then-congressional candidate Ritchie Torres a "first-class w----" and health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot a "b----" on the Association's official Twitter account.

De Blasio may have pulled his punches as the raids unfolded, but Torres did not.

"Ed Mullins, who famously called me a "first-class whore" for daring to ask questions about the @SBANYPD, just got a first-class raid from the FBI," the congressman tweeted.

Mullins had also tweeted a May 2020 police report about Chiara de Blasio — the mayor's daughter — after she was arrested in the George Floyd protests. NYPD officials almost always deny requests for police reports by claiming they would harm investigations or expose personal information.