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.

A federal judge in Brooklyn tentatively set an August trial date in the corruption case against Frank Carone, a high-ranking member of former New York Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, who was indicted last week in an alleged bribery scheme.

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U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said the trial would begin in late summer but acknowledged that the case’s complexity could ultimately delay the start date.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Winik said the government plans to provide the defendants with a “voluminous” amount of discovery, totaling millions of pages.