Overview
- Federal agents arrested Frank Carone, his brother Anthony and two others after a federal indictment was unsealed on Wednesday charging them in a scheme tied to a city contract.
- Prosecutors brought multiple counts including bribery, wire fraud and money laundering against the defendants in the Eastern District of New York.
- The indictment says Carone arranged for a $6.8 million Long Island City hotel contract during the 2022–23 migrant response and received about $120,000 in payments disguised as legal fees and routed through his brother's law firm.
- NYPD Internal Affairs and the FBI executed search warrants the same morning at the homes of current and former NYPD leaders in a separate corruption inquiry that officials say is not the Carone case.
- Carone’s lawyer called the charges weak and largely circumstantial, and prosecutors say the case highlights questions about how emergency migrant-shelter contracts were awarded and overseen during the crisis.