Mayor Sheila Dixon’s former spokesman, Anthony McCarthy, has been subpoenaed to testify next week in front of a grand jury investigating political corruption at City Hall.

McCarthy, whom Dixon terminated after he was investigated — but never charged —by Baltimore County police, is slated to testify at 4 p.m. Thursday, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

He declined to comment on the subpoena.

Dixon placed her former communications chief on administrative leave in November — and later dismissed him — after Baltimore County police said they were investigating his alleged “inappropriate behavior.”

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At the time, Dixon described the allegations, which McCarthy and police both declined to detail, as “shocking.”

But Baltimore County prosecutors cleared McCarthy, saying he would not be charged.

McCarthy’s testimony on Thursday is part of what prosecutors expect to be two weeks of evidence presented to the grand jury as it seeks an indictment against Dixon, the sources said.

State prosecutors raided Dixon’s Southwest Baltimore home at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Sources familiar with the probe said investigators are focusing on gifts given to Dixon by a politically connected contractor, and have questioned a local business owner about storing fur coats for the mayor.

When asked by reporters on Wednesday if she owned a fur coat, Dixon said she owned “several.”

Dixon has called the investigation into her a “witch hunt” in the past.

The day after the raid, she said she is “focused on moving the city forward.”

Two Dixon associates have pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns in the two-year probe, which began amid allegations of conflict of interest between Dixon and her sister, Janice Dixon’s former employer, Union Technologies, also known as Utech.

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