The Queens house of ex-NYPD high cop Jeffrey Maddrey was raided by authorities early Thursday amid a probe into allegations he traded sexual favors with an underling, the NYPD Commissioner mentioned.
“At my path, the Inner Affairs Bureau of the New York Metropolis Police Division is working with legislation enforcement authorities to research allegations in opposition to former Chief of Division Jeffrey Maddrey,” Commish Jessica Tisch mentioned in an announcement.
“Maddrey was suspended from the division this morning, as legislation enforcement brokers executed search warrants at a number of places, together with his residence.”
The Publish reached out to Maddrey’s lawyer Thursday within the wake of the raids however didn’t hear again instantly.
It comes after Maddrey — the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer — abruptly resigned late final month after The Publish uncovered explosive allegations he demanded sexual favors from the subordinate in change for enormous quantities of extra time.
Maddrey, on the time, admitted to having a “consensual, grownup relationship” with Lt. Quathisha Epps — however denied her claims that he routinely preyed upon her and demanded sexual favors in change for eye-watering quantities of extra time.
“Lt. Epps obtained caught along with her hand within the cookie jar and is attempting to deflect her wrongdoing by making these allegations in opposition to Chief Maddrey,” his lawyer, Lambros Lambrou, mentioned when the claims first surfaced.
Epps had leveled the allegations in opposition to Maddrey in a criticism she filed in opposition to the town with the federal Equal Employment Alternative Fee.
She alleged Maddrey engaged in “quid professional quo sexual harassment” by coercing her to “carry out undesirable sexual favors in change for extra time alternatives within the office.”
Epps, who held an administrative put up in Maddrey’s workplace, was the NYPD’s high earner in fiscal 12 months 2024, payroll knowledge reveals.
Of the greater than $400,000 she raked in, greater than half of it was extra time pay.
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