New York Police Department investigators and F.B.I. agents searched the homes of current and former high-ranking Police Department officials on Wednesday while pursuing corruption inquiries related to Jeffrey Maddrey, once the force’s top uniformed officer.
One of the inquiries, being conducted by the police investigators and Manhattan federal prosecutors, was focused at least in part on bribery accusations and stemmed from earlier scrutiny of Mr. Maddrey, the chief of department under former Mayor Eric Adams, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Among those targeted in that investigation was Tarik Sheppard, a former deputy commissioner, the people said.
In another inquiry, F.B.I. agents on Wednesday searched the home of Mr. Maddrey for at least the second time in two years, two of the people said.
The searches occurred on the same morning that federal agents arrested Frank Carone, Mr. Adams’s former chief of staff, as part of a third, unrelated investigation.
All of the inquiries concerned top officials from the Adams administration.
The city police commissioner, Jessica S. Tisch, said in a statement on Wednesday that the corruption investigation involving the police officials was continuing and related to “conduct by former and current members” of the Police Department. She said the searches had been conducted by members of the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau and the F.B.I.
“When I became police commissioner, I promised New Yorkers that under my leadership the N.Y.P.D. 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 said. “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.”
A lawyer for Mr. Maddrey did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Mr. Sheppard could not immediately be reached.
Mr. Maddrey was a close ally of Mr. Adams and, as the department’s top uniformed official from 2022 to 2024, commanded significant power at a time when the mayor kept close control over the Police Department.
But in November 2024, Mr. Adams named Ms. Tisch to lead the department, hoping to put an end to the scandals and allegations of corruption and cronyism that had defined his oversight of the agency.
A month later, Mr. Maddrey resigned amid an inquiry by federal investigators and the city’s Department of Investigation into potential abuse of overtime pay and accusations of sexual misconduct against him.
His house was searched in January 2025, just weeks after his resignation from the department.
Mr. Adams himself was also charged with corruption offenses by Manhattan federal prosecutors in 2024, becoming the first sitting mayor in the modern history of New York City to be charged with a crime.
But the Justice Department abandoned the case after President Trump returned to office, saying that it had hamstrung the mayor’s ability to aid in his immigration crackdown.
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