Federal investigators subpoena Mayor Adams’ asylum seeker operations director Molly Schaeffer

Federal authorities deed Mayor Adams’ asylum seeker operations director, Molly Schaeffer, with a subpoena Friday — making her the latest elder metropolis authoritative to look scrutiny from the feds amid aggregate corruption probes swirling astir the precocious echelons of the mayor’s administration, the Daily News has learned.

Schaeffer, a 10-year metropolis authorities seasoned who was tapped past twelvemonth by Adams to pb his Office of Asylum Seeker Operations astatine City Hall, was served with the subpoena astatine her location successful Brooklyn, according to 2 sources acquainted with the matter.

It wasn’t instantly wide if the subpoena is seeking electronics, records, grounds oregon each three. It besides wasn’t instantly wide which national corruption the subpoena was issued arsenic portion of.

Reached by telephone aboriginal Friday, Schaeffer asked The News, “what is this about,” and past ended the call.

Fabien Levy, Adams’ spokesman, declined to remark connected the subpoena, but said successful a statement: “As we person repeatedly said, we expect each squad members to afloat comply with immoderate ongoing inquiry. Molly Schaeffer is an integral portion of our squad and works hard each time to present for New Yorkers.”

In her post, Schaeffer has played a salient relation in overseeing metropolis contracts for migrant services similar shelter, food, information and lawsuit management.

In that capacity, Schaeffer has worked intimately with Tim Pearson, a elder advisor to the politician tasked by him with coming up with ways to prevention wealth connected migrant contracts, sources acquainted with her relation said. Pearson was among a fractional twelve apical advisers to the politician who got their homes raided and electronics seized by the feds earlier this month.

The national probe that resulted successful Pearson’s devices being seized is looking into imaginable unregistered lobbying and kickbacks connected metropolis contracts, sources person confirmed. Terence Banks, a authorities advisor and the younger member of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks and Schools Chancellor David Banks, is simply a absorption successful that probe and has represented aggregate companies with metropolis concern interests.

A spokesperson for the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s bureau declined to comment.

With Graham Rayman