NYPD and feds raid homes of high-ranking NYPD chiefs in bribery probe

Josephine Stratman, Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on Jun 24, 2026

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NEW YORK — The NYPD and the FBI executed search warrants at the homes of several former and current high-ranking NYPD officers early Wednesday as part of an ongoing bribery probe, the Daily News has learned.

Former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard were among those visited by a joint FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau task force.

Investigators also hit the home of NYPD Assistant Chief Jimmy McCarthy, the head of Patrol Borough Manhattan South.

The NYPD said Wednesday McCarthy has been stripped of his gun and shield and transferred as the probe continues. Assistant Chief Melissa Eger, the head of Patrol Borough Staten Island, was transferred to Manhattan to replace McCarthy.

The bribery allegations could be tied to promotions in the department, a source with knowledge of the case said. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is heading the probe, declined to comment.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the search warrants were part of a probe that “is ongoing and concerns conduct by former and current members of the NYPD.”

All three cops have close ties to former New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Maddrey’s attorney, Lambros Lambrou, said he believes the search warrant may somehow be connected to the charges lodged Wednesday against former City Hall Chief of Staff Frank Carone. Carone and three others were arrested on federal charges for a bribery scheme involving a migrant shelter contract.

“There’s nothing that we glean from any of paperwork that he is the subject of any investigation,” Lambrou said. “Maddrey intends to fully cooperate with law enforcement whenever asked.”

Attempts to reach Sheppard and McCarthy were unsuccessful.

More than one electronic device was seized from Maddrey’s home and the search warrant may somehow be linked to the allegations against Carone, Lambrou said.

Tisch said in a statement Wednesday that she “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.”

“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,” she added.

Tisch, speaking at the NYPD’s police academy graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden later Wednesday, didn’t mention the raids but did note that all of the new officers “must act with integrity.”

“The stakes could not be any higher,” she told the graduating recruits. “If you fail to meet that standard, the consequences will be swift and they will be severe. But when you act with integrity and do what is right, as I know you will, you will be upholding the highest ideals of the department and that standard has to guide you in every part of this job.”

Mayor Mamdani, when asked about the raids at an unrelated press conference in the Bronx, said “any corruption” amounts to a “breach in public trust.”

“Commissioner Tisch has already shown a real commitment to cracking down on corruption and ensuring that the public servants in the NYPD are held to the highest standards,” the mayor said. “I’m confident that she will lead us through this process.”

Maddrey became the NYPD’s Chief of Department under Adams, a former NYPD cop.

Sheppard was part of a close group of Adams’ advisors within the department who were empowered by the mayor to go on a social media blitz against district attorneys, judges, and media outlets they disagreed with.

McCarthy was promoted to NYPD Assistant Chief in May 2022, Adams’ first year in office.

This is the second time Maddrey’s home has been raided by federal investigators. In January 2025, the feds executed search warrants in his Queens home and other locations as the NYPD officially suspended him for a sex-for-overtime scandal involving Lt. Quathisha Epps.

She claimed at the time that Maddrey, the highest-ranking uniformed member of the department, had sexually harassed her and forced her to perform “unwanted sexual favors” in return for overtime pay.

Epps is currently suing the city over her allegations against Maddrey. Maddrey left the department when the scandal broke.

Sheppard, who was once the department’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information and had a public row with interim NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon at the 2024 New York City Marathon, left the department shortly after NYPD Commissioner Tisch was sworn into office in November 2024.

He went on to open a consulting business with former NYPD Chief of Department John Chell — who replaced Maddrey — known as Harlem Ridge Advisors.

Bribery allegations against Sheppard were first directed to the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau, which forwarded their findings to the feds, a source said.

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