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NYPD’s $400K-a-year top earner Quathisha Epps is retiring early as astronomical overtime pay is investigated: sources
NY Post ^ | 12-18-24 | Larry Celona and Matt Troutman

Posted on 12/18/2024 3:12:11 PM PST by dynachrome

The NYPD’s highest-paid employee — who shoveled in more than $400,000 last year — filed for retirement this week amid an internal affairs probe into her astronomical overtime, The Post has learned.

Lt. Quathisha Epps will retire just shy of 20 years with the department, sources said — an early exit that will impact her pension and cost her a $12,000-a-year supplement for cops who reach the two-decade mark.

Leaving money on the table is seemingly uncharacteristic for Epps, who raised eyebrows by pulling in roughly $204,000 in overtime last year for her administrative job in NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s office, payroll records show.

Sources told The Post that Epps’ whopping overtime was capped after The Post’s exclusive report last month on her pay. She was also told she’d be put back on patrol — an apparently unappetizing prospect after her cushy desk job, according to the sources.

“There is no way she was going to go out on patrol,” one source told The Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: corrupt; crookedcops; dei; dirtydems; epps; fraud; newyork; nypd; overtime; police; quathisha; quathishaepps; retire
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Mayor Adams helped this. Both are corrupt to the bone.
1 posted on 12/18/2024 3:12:11 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Lt. Quathisha, uh, yea.


2 posted on 12/18/2024 3:16:21 PM PST by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: dynachrome

https://leoaffairs.com/nypd-administrative-worker-hauls-in-400000-named-top-earner-in-2024/

Epps isn’t alone in topping $100,000 in overtime pay. More than 300 NYPD officers reached that mark.


3 posted on 12/18/2024 3:20:49 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: stevio

I looked even though I already knew. Can we still use the word “uppity”?


4 posted on 12/18/2024 3:21:07 PM PST by SMM48
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To: dynachrome

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/04/05/nypd-lieutenant-a-three-time-cancer-survivor

“If you have five days, five months or five years, or 55 years. How do you choose to spend it?” Epps asked.


evidently, overtime becomes your focus of life? at least getting paid for overtime.


5 posted on 12/18/2024 3:26:28 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are not longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: dynachrome

“”Quathisha Epps””

Do I need to look?


6 posted on 12/18/2024 3:28:50 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: dynachrome; sit-rep

Man, I was a sergeant in two different police departments, and made in the mid 30s. Clearly I was doing something wrong.


7 posted on 12/18/2024 3:29:56 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: dynachrome; sit-rep; lightman

San Francisco is starting at $112,000 now.

Problem is, you have to work in San Francisco.


8 posted on 12/18/2024 3:31:52 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: dynachrome

That surname seems cursed.


9 posted on 12/18/2024 3:32:57 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Harpazo imminent. Each post may be my last. It's been real =)
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To: stevio

I looked even tho’ it wasn’t necessary.

She has to be a relative of Fani Willis - looks a lot like her - same arrogant smirk - haughty!

Reminds me of what I thought of the obamas their first night in the WH. I’m sure Michelle said, “I can’t believe we pulled this off, can you?”


10 posted on 12/18/2024 3:34:43 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: dynachrome

Nothing reported about a disability although she is a cancer survivor.


11 posted on 12/18/2024 3:48:30 PM PST by TexasGator ('111I1/.1111'/1./')
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To: dynachrome

Epps...what does Ray get?


12 posted on 12/18/2024 3:49:16 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: dynachrome
My math:

Given: $400K in a year, with $204K of that being overtime.

Results:

Standard Pay (not overtime): $196K. Divided by 52 weeks, then by 40 hours per week = $94.23/hr.

Assuming overtime hours = time and a half, that's = $141.35/hr.

Aforementioned $204K total overtime divided by $141.35 overtime pay = 1,443 overtime hours in a year, or 27.75 hours per week.

So unless I'm missing stuff like a lot of double-time and a half on holidays or whatever, are we really supposed to believe she worked 67 hour weeks all year?

13 posted on 12/18/2024 3:51:07 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

“are we really supposed to believe she worked 67 hour weeks all year?”

She averaged 72 hours per week.


14 posted on 12/18/2024 3:54:14 PM PST by TexasGator ('111I1/.1111'/1./')
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To: dynachrome
Records showed that last year she worked nearly 1,627 hours of overtime on top of her regular shift, or an average of roughly 74 hours a week.

Take a look at this hardworking individual:


15 posted on 12/18/2024 3:54:37 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell )
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To: stevio

Common Amish name, I understand.


16 posted on 12/18/2024 3:56:22 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: dynachrome

So....will it be Riker’s Island or Club Fed?


17 posted on 12/18/2024 3:56:42 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: dynachrome
Bears repeating:

The NYPD’s highest-paid employee — who shoveled in more than $400,000 last year — filed for retirement this week amid an internal affairs probe into her astronomical overtime, The Post has learned.

Lt. Quathisha Epps will retire just shy of 20 years with the department


18 posted on 12/18/2024 3:58:08 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Larry Lucido

Recently there was one of those big billboard type ads at a shopping mall in suburban Boston from the New Haven (CT) Police Dept looking for cops. It said you’d be making $75,000 a year after two years.


19 posted on 12/18/2024 4:00:13 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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Epps is under investigation for pulling in some $400,000 in overtime for her administrative job in NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s office, payroll records show.

Not counting several pensions, perks, stipends, bonuses, expense accounts, <><>NYPD credit cards, Cadillac health and life insurance, <><>housing subsidies, tax paid utility bills, <><>several Social Security plans, <><>government checks, payments, loans, <><>six-figure salaries, for no-show jobs, consultancies, in retirement <><>and so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.

20 posted on 12/18/2024 4:01:21 PM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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