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The FBI Raided NYPD Offices and Homes in a Bribery Investigation Targeting Top Executives
By Mike Harper · June 26, 2026
The FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs executed three search warrants Wednesday morning across New York City. The targets were not suspects on the street. They were the people who ran the department.
The investigation is targeting current and former NYPD executives on bribery charges, including Jeffrey Maddrey — formerly Chief of Department, the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD — James McCarthy, the current Chief of Manhattan South, and Tarik Sheppard, the department’s former chief spokesman. FBI agents were photographed outside Maddrey’s Brooklyn home. McCarthy was placed on modified duty and had his gun taken. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is leading the probe.
The investigation centers on how promotions, transfers, and assignments were made inside the department — and what was exchanged for them.
Sources told CBS News that promotions were allegedly sold for as much as $15,000, with favors exchanged for career-making transfers and assignments. The scope of the investigation suggests a system in which advancement within the nation’s largest police department may have operated as a marketplace rather than a meritocracy.
Maddrey resigned from the NYPD in December 2024 after a subordinate accused him of coercing her into sex acts in exchange for overtime pay and other benefits. His departure came during a period of extraordinary instability at the top of the department — Commissioner Edward Caban resigned in September 2024 after his phone was seized in a separate federal investigation, and his interim replacement was forced out weeks later.
Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who took over in November 2024 to stabilize the department, confirmed the searches and issued a statement the same morning she addressed a graduating class of new police recruits.
“You must act with integrity. The stakes could not be any higher. If you fail to meet that standard, the consequences will be swift and they will be severe.”
No arrests were made Wednesday. The investigation is ongoing. For a department that has cycled through three commissioners in 18 months and now has the FBI searching the homes of its former leaders, the question is no longer whether there is a corruption problem. It is how deep it goes.