A longtime pal of Mayor Adams who was appointed to a plum gig at the NYPD — and made nearly $300,000 last year – is retiring.
Lisa White, the controversial deputy commissioner for employee relations since 2019, rented a room to Adams for four years at her Crown Heights apartment before he was elected mayor, and worked with a non-profit group he created to push for fairer treatment of black cops in the department, according to records.
With Adams in City Hall, White went from being a $53,000-a-year 911 call operator for 24 years, to overseeing the mental health and morale of the NYPD’s 35,000 uniformed members — at a starting salary of about $241,000, records show…