Posted on 12/27/2024 5:16:47 PM PST by Libloather
A lawyer for Jeffrey Maddrey went on the defense Friday — insisting the disgraced NYPD chief had a “consensual” relationship with the lieutenant he allegedly sexually abused and saying he’s weighing civil litigation against her.
The former chief of department, who abruptly resigned one week ago as the sex-for-overtime scandal engulfed America’s largest police force, stood silently with clenched fists next to his lawyer as he slapped down the scathing accusations.
“We can tell you now those allegations are a lie. They are not true. We deny every aspect of them,” attorney Lambros Lambrou told reporters. “We can tell you now that Lt. [Quathisha] Epps, since October of this year, has been under investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau for overtime she never completed.”
In an exclusive interview with The Post, Epps accused Maddrey — then-the highest ranking uniformed officer — of forcing her to perform sexual favors in exchange for granting her massive amounts of lucrative overtime hours and other perks.
Epps, 51, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Office claiming while she worked her administrative job in Maddrey’s office, he sexually extorted her beginning in June 2023 after he was promoted by Mayor Eric Adams to the highest-ranking cop spot in the force.
Lambrou claimed it was Epps who began the relationship with Maddrey, which he insisted was consensual.
The lawyer claimed to have a slew of evidence, including racy videos and photos that Epps sent Maddrey. Lambrou also claimed Epps “is a self-professed swinger.”
The lawyer said Epps launched her alleged lies against Maddrey to shift the blame away from the fact she put in for a boatload of overtime she never worked.
“Now Lieutenant Epps got caught with her hands in the cookie jar and is trying to deflect her own wrongdoing by...
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All part of the money laundering.
They invest and are supposed to get money in another form from another indirect source.
Plus the first days the investors buy up a lot of copies which puts the book over the threshold for NYT, major bookstores and Amazon to declare it a bestseller which causes a triggering of book stocking and discounts at Barnes and Noble and Kroger and others. Then libraries all want one or two copies of “the bestseller people are talking about on TV.”
200k in OT? Doubled her pay. That would set off a
red flag for any accountant. She would have had to work
80 hours a week for 52 weeks at $100 an hour. She got
greedy.
I’ll bet that Adams wishes he had never dared to question The Big Guy’s immigration policy.
Good God! I wouldn’t want to be in even the same area code as that!
They should BOTH be Charged with Prostitution to start with.
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