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

Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on Jun 24, 2026

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NEW YORK — The NYPD and the FBI raided the homes of several former and current high-ranking NYPD officers 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 raided by a joint FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau task force.

Investigators also raided 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 into the bribery allegations continues. Assistant Chief Melissa Eger, the head of Patrol Borough Staten Island, was transferred to Manhattan to replace McCarthy Wednesday morning.

The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is heading the probe, declined to comment Wednesday.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday that the bribery investigation “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.

The raids were carried out as Adams’ former chief of staff, Frank Carone, and three others were arrested in an apparently unrelated bribery probe in Brooklyn Federal Court involving a migrant shelter contract bribery scheme.

“When I became Police Commissioner, I 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,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “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.”

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 opened 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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