NYC Mayor’s Top Aide Subpoenaed as Witness in Racketeering Suit

Suit raises questions about Chief of Staff Frank Carone
Carone is not a defendant in Geico’s $4.5 million complaint

Frank Carone, standing, at a party fundraising event in New York on July 14, 2021.Photographer: Jeenah Moon/The New York Times/Redux

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By Laura Nahmias

February 3, 2022 at 6:57 PM UTC

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff, Frank Carone, was subpoenaed for documents in a $4.5 million federal civil racketeering lawsuit over alleged fraudulent insurance charges.

The subpoena to Carone, who is not a defendant in the suit and isn’t accused of misconduct, is part of insurance giant Geico Corp.’s broader allegations that several New York and New Jersey doctors and medical clinics submitted “thousands of fraudulent no-fault insurance charges” related to motor vehicle accidents, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn.