Ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ former top adviser and political power broker was arrested Wednesday, and authorities raided the homes of several ex-NYPD officials as part of multiple corruption probes.

Frank Carone, 56, had his home searched by the feds in the early morning operation and was arrested in an alleged bribery scheme that also involved his brother Anthony Carone, 54, according to police sources.

Separately, the FBI seized former chief of department Jeff Maddrey’s phone seized today, sources said.

And the NYPD and the FBI conducted search warrants to seize phones from Assistant Chief James McCarthy, and the NYPD’s former top spokesperson Tarik Sheppard in connection to NYPD internal affairs investigation though it wasn’t immediately clear what the underlying allegations are, sources said.

McCarthy has been placed on modified duty, according to the NYPD.

Carone was hit with a 13-count indictment unsealed Wednesday alleging that while he was serving as Adams’ chief of staff in 2022 he received $120,000 in bribes funneled through his brother’s law firm that he used to pay off his credit cards.

Frank received 12 monthly $10,000 payments from Yan Po “Andy” Zhu, who owned Microtel Inn by Wyndham in Long Island City, and from Zhu’s business manager Crysten Chen after he helped the hotel clinch a $6.825 million one-year contract to run a migrant shelter at their establishment, the court papers allege.

Zhu, 51, and Chen, 39, — both Chinese nationals living in Nassau County — had intially tried and failed to secure the lucrative contract, with the Department of Social Services (DSS) rejecting them because the city already enlisted several other hotels as migrant shelters in the neighborhood, including one across from Microtel. 

The 75-room Microtel was half the size of the hotels usually contracted to operate as shelters — which would force the city to have to make up the difference with another hotel, the filing claims.

The DSS also didn’t want to open up another facility in the area since they were already receiving pushback from residents and local politicians, the court papers said.

Then Zhu “leveraged his burgeoning personal relationship with” Carone – even having him over to his home several times to ask for help pushing the contract through, the indictment alleges.

Starting around June 14, 2022, Carone began using “his official position to intercede on Microtel’s behalf,” the court documents allege. By November of that year, the city contract with Microtel finally went through, the filing says.

Each time Zhu asked Carone or his brother for help securing the contract, Frank Carone would ask the commissioner of the DSS to intervene and the commissioner did so several times, having underlings go against their prior determinations that it was “not a viable location,” the docs claim.

One internal DSS message said: “This is a proposed hotel conversion that has been brought to us many times. We have consistently told them no because it is directly next to [a different] shelter.”

By Oct. 1, 2022, Zhu, of Glen Head, New York, and Chen, of East WIlliston, New York, “began making a series of monthly payments” to Frank Carone by sending the money to a firm where Anthony Carone was a partner.

The commissioner in a text to the former Adams aide on Oct. 4, 2022, told him the hotel wasn’t the right location but “nevertheless advised subordinate officials at DSS to award an emergency shelter contract to Microtel,” and the hotel was given the contract by Nov. 1, 2022, the indictment says.

The bribe payments were hidden in a “sham retainer agreement” that Zhu and Chen struck with Anthony’s firm, the court papers allege.

Anthony Carone allegedly funneled the bribe money from his firm’s account — which had previously been inactive since it was opened in 2015 — to Frank Carone’s law firm’s account. Anthony Carone never told his firm about these transactions. 

And Anthony Carone tried to pass the money off as legitimate by mixing them in with legal fees from other clients  Frank Carone had referred to his sibling while the latter was working in government, the indictment says.

Frank Carone ultimately used the funds to pay off his credit cards which he used for travel, dining, fitness memberships, clothing, groceries and other purchaces, the court papers claim.

These payments weren’t reported to the tax authorities nor were they reported with the conflict of interest board, as Frank Carone was required to do, the indictment says.

And when Frank Carone left the Adams administration in December 2022, he and his brother changed the way they hid the bribes – with Anthony Carone writing checks from his firm to Frank Carone’s firm despite not having provided any legitimate legal services, the court papers allege.

When the last bribe was paid to the Carones on Sept. 1, 2023, Anthony Carone tried to strong arm Zhu and Chen to pay another two months “and then we will consider this matter terminated,” the indictment alleges.

When the Carones discovered in the spring of 2024 that there was a grand jury probe into their dealings, they tried to make the bribes look legitimate by passing them off as a loan — even making a promissory note that they backdated to January 2022 and that they handed to the feds in October 2025, the court documents claim.

The Carones, Zhu and Chen are variously charged with conspiracy, federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, obstruction of justice and subscribing to a false tax return. They each face up to 20 years behind bars if convicted.

Each appeared in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday afternoon, and all were freed on costly bonds.

Carone put up his $4.7 million Boca Raton house to cover his $2 million bond, while Zhu was hit with an $8 million bond.

Frank Carone’s lawyers Andrew Goldstein and Russell Capone said the allegations were “utterly misguided.” 

“Frank Carone served the City of New York honorably,” the statement said. “He was instrumental in helping the city navigate an unprecedented migrant crisis, but had absolutely nothing to do with granting the temporary migrant shelter at the center of these charges.

“We believe a speedy trial is critical and the facts will vindicate Frank.”

The arrests of the current and former members of the NYPD stem from a probe of former Chief of Department Maddrey’s alleged misappropriation of funds, with the FBI called in to assist in the investigation.

Sources said cops are looking into potential bribery and other official misconduct by former high-ranking police officials, including potential wrongdoing in how promotions and assignments were doled out.

No arrests were expected to be made Wednesday in connection with the NYPD raids.

The FBI conducted the raid on Maddrey’s home while the NYPD conducted the searches of the other department officials targeted in the investigation.

“This morning, members of the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau and the FBI executed search warrants as part of a criminal investigation being pursued by the NYPD, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York,” NYPD Comissioner Jessia Tisch said. “The investigation is ongoing and concerns conduct by former and current members of the NYPD.”

“When I became Police Commissioner, I promised New Yorkers that under my leadership the NYPD would conduct itself with integrity and that there would be a thorough investigation of any claim that members of service failed to meet that standard,” she added. “This investigation and our actions this morning are part of the ongoing effort to fulfill that commitment and hold the Department to its highest ideals.”

Maddrey’s lawyer told The Post that his client “fully cooperated” with the search and said they believed he was being probed for a connection to the Carone allegations and not allegations of overtime fraud. 

“We intend to fully cooperate and assist in any way we are asked by law enforcement,” defense attorney Lambros Lambrou said. “We have no information and do not believe that Maddrey is or was a subject of the investigation which led to the arrests today.”

Allegations of criminal wrongdoing have long dogged Frank Carone, who served as Adams’ chief of staff for his first year in office in 2022.

The first federal case he was tangled in stemmed from accusations surrounding a Brooklyn church and Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello.

The feds slapped Gigantiello and Carone with subpoenas connected to the church’s finances in 2024.

Maddrey, meanwhile, was forced to resign from the department in late 2024 amid a sexual scandal in which he was accused of forcing an underling to perform intimate favors in exchange for overtime. 

McCarthy also previously had his phone seized by the feds, along with a number of other top NYPD officials.

Adams’ spokesperson, Todd Shapiro, lauded Carone’s career in a statement Wednesday morning and said they were praying for him.

“Frank Carone has dedicated decades of his life to public service, the legal profession, and helping countless individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations throughout New York,” the statement said.

“This is an ongoing legal matter and my prayers are with his family.”

Adams and his staff have been plagued by corruption allegations, with the former mayor himself previously facing an indictment that was dismissed under the Trump administration.

He had been charged with receiving $120,000 in travel perks in exchange for rushing the approval of the opening of a Turkish Consulate in Manhattan. However, the Department of Justice dropped the case in 2025 — a move approved by a judge — barring any further prosecution tied to those allegations.

Adams’ former aide and confidante, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was also charged last year for allegedly steering city contracts for migrant shelters to property owners who gave her bribes, prosecutors alleged.

She was separately indicted in 2024 for allegedly accepting a $100,000 bribe to pay off her son’s Porsche in exchange for helping two businessmen.

She has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial in both cases.

Tony Herbert, then-Mayor Adams’ citywide public housing liaison, was cuffed in January for two alleged pay-to-play schemes for which he received $16,000 in bribes.

Herbert had been canned for calling Charlie Kirk’s shooting “karma.” He’s pleaded not guilty and his trial is pending.

And Mohamed Bahi, Adams’ then-chief liaison to the Muslim community, pleaded guilty in a straw donor campaign scheme and was sentenced to three years’ probation and one year of house arrest.

The former city Building Department head, Eric Ulrich, is also facing a trial in September on charges he traded political favors for more than $150,000 in bribes.

He has also pleaded not guilty.

Additional reporting by Alex Oliveira