Top Eric Adams Adviser Frank Carone Scheduled to Go to Trial in August

Top Eric Adams adviser Frank Carone scheduled to go to trial in August

Prosecutors allege Carone accepted bribes from a hotel owner in exchange for steering a multimillion-dollar contract to operate the hotel as a migrant shelter.

Big Trouble at the Microtel: Ex-Commish at Center of Frank Carone Bribe Case

Former city Social Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins’ name appears nowhere in the 27-page bribery indictment of Frank Carone, former top aide to Mayor Eric Adams. But Jenkins — only identified in the document as City Official #1 — is emerging as a central witness in the case. Prosecutors allege Carone, a Democratic power broker then serving as the mayor’s chief of staff, “directed” Jenkins to steer a migrant shelter contract to the owner of a L…