Ex-Adams Aide Charged in Two City Hall Bribery Schemes

Tony Herbert, a former Adams aide and longtime NYC political operative, was arrested in Manhattan on two broad public-corruption schemes: taking bribes to steer city contracts to a security company (including work at NYCHA housing projects) and funneling reimbursements to a funeral home for burial services for low-income residents, plus a separate Paycheck Protection Program loan-fraud scheme; he pleaded not guilty to bribery, extortion, wire fraud and related offenses and was released on a $50,000 bond with a Jan. 30 court date. The alleged schemes occurred between Oct. 2022 and May 2025; Adams isn’t charged in this indictment, though he has been subject to related probes involving the same investigators and DOI.