Frank Carone, one in every of former Mayor Eric Adams’ prime aides and a longtime powerbroker with the Brooklyn Democratic machine, was arrested this morning on federal prices associated to an alleged bribery scheme involving a migrant shelter contract, The Metropolis Reporter has discovered.
Carone, who served as Adams’ chief of employees earlier than leaving Metropolis Corridor to kind a lobbying agency, is one in every of Adams’ longest operating backers, supporting him for years as a lawyer for the Kings County Democratic Committee as Adams rose from state Senate to Brooklyn Borough President to Metropolis Corridor.
A number of others moreover Carone, together with his brother, Anthony, a lawyer in Carone’s regulation agency Abrams Fensterman, had been additionally charged. Specifics of the fees filed in opposition to him are anticipated to be revealed later this morning. Carone and his co-defendants are set to be arraigned this afternoon.
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