Top Eric Adams aide Frank Carone puts up lux Boca Raton pad to make bond on bribery charges as phone shenanigans revealed

Ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ top advisor used his multi-million-dollar Florida mansion to secure a seven-figure bond after he was busted on sprawling fraud allegations – as court papers revealed desperate ways the alleged cronies tried to keep investigators at bay.Frank Carone, 56, put up his $4.7 million Boca Raton beach house to cover the $2 million bond after he was arrested Wednesday, and was released under stiff terms restricting his travel to New York and Florida.Carone – who served as Adams’ chief of staff in 2022 – was arrested for allegedly taking about $120,000 in bribes from a Queens hotelier who he allegedly helped secure a $6.825 million one-year city contract to run a migrant shelter.His own brother – 54-year-old Anthony Carone — was also arrested for allegedly funneling the cash from the hotelier — Yan Po “Andy” Zhu — through his law firm under “sham retainer agreements,” according to an indictment from the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.All of the defendants posted bail – including 51-year-old Zhu, who faced an $8 million bond.Zhu’s hotel business manager, 39-year-old Crystal Chen, was also arrested and charged.Carone allegedly used his power in City Hall to secure Zhu the lucrative housing contract, even though his Long Island City Microtel Inn had been previously rejected because it was too small and right next to another shelter, court papers alleged.But after Zhu invited the Carone brothers for a series of visits to his Nassau McMansion – where he “leveraged his burgeoning personal relationship with,” court documents read — the contract soon came rolling in to the Microtel.But Carone allegedly then began to receive $10,000 payments each month from an account at his brother’s law firm – just as Zhu was paying the brother the same amount under their supposed retainer contract, prosecutors alleged.That cash allegedly went to Carone’s credit card bills – which he doled out on dining, travel, me...

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Publisher: New York Post

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