The FBI has raided the office of one of New York City's main police unions along with the home of its firebrand chief Ed Mullins, as part of an investigation that may be tied to mismanagement of funds.
Federal agents entered the Sergeants Benevolent Association's (SBA) headquarters in downtown Manhattan Tuesday morning.
They descended on Mullins's Long Island home later in the day, according to the New York Daily News.
The FBI said they were 'carrying out a law enforcement action in connection with an ongoing investigation' and did not provide any further details on the sweeps.
Two sources told the New York Times that the union is being investigated by the FBI and the public corruption unit of the US attorney's office in Manhattan.
One source told NY1 that the raids are connected to mismanagement of funds.
The SBA did not immediately respond to requests for comment from DailyMail.com.
The FBI and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have also been approached for comment.
The FBI searched the offices of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association on Tuesday
The union is headed by controversial Sgt. Ed Mullins, who is facing two departmental trials for releasing an arrest report of Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter and for foul language
The SBA union has been headed by NYPD Sgt. Edward Mullins since July 2002. It represents about 13,000 current and former New York Police Department sergeants.
Non-supervisory officers are represented by the larger Police Benevolent Association.
The controversial officer is a known critic of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who he called 'an idiot' in an interview with Fox News contributor Sara Carter last year after the mayor criticized a large funeral gathering in the Orthodox Jewish community.
During Tuesday's daily COVID briefing, De Blasio told reporters he knew little about the raid, but took the opportunity to criticize Mullins for his rhetoric.
'A lot of what he has done is really, really destructive,' de Blasio said. 'Especially in the middle of a crisis where we're trying to unify, we're trying to get people through
