New York City mayor’s longtime friend now holds high-paid NYPD job

Lisa White, who earns $241,000 a year, is one of a number of Eric Adams's friends, family and former colleagues hired to top roles

A career 911 dispatcher and longtime friend of New York City mayor Eric Adams who rented a room to Adams in her apartment in Brooklyn's Crown Heights for four years now has one of the highest-paid jobs in city government, records show.

In May, the NYPD appointed Lisa White as its deputy commissioner for employee relations, at a salary of more than $241,000 a year - a nearly fivefold boost over her prior salary there and almost as much as the police commissioner makes.