To win the mayor’s support in a quest to bring casinos to New York City, the head of Las Vegas Sands invited one of Eric Adams’s closest advisers to his Park Avenue pied-a-terre: Chief of Staff Frank Carone.

The casino mogul talked to Carone about building a gaming complex on the land surrounding the Mets stadium. It was a controversial idea billionaire Steve Cohen extolled eight days earlier when he hosted Carone and Adams at the Mets owner’s executive suite at Citi Field.

It was three weeks into the Adams administration. Cohen and Sands CEO Rob Goldstein were in talks to partner on a Queens casino.