Posted on 07/08/2025 7:07:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
New York City mayor Eric Adams is being sued by four former high-ranking police officers who are accusing the embattled mayor of promoting corruption in the police department, the Associated press reports.
In separate lawsuits filed on Monday, the former official described a culture of rampant corruption and cronyism inside one of the country’s largest police forces.
In his lawsuit, James Essig, the former chief of detectives and 40-year force veteran, claims that the former commissioner of the NYPD sold promotions to the tune of $15,000. Essig says he was forced to resign after objecting to the practice. Essig’s suit adds that senior NYPD leadership often selected “friends and cronies” of theirs and Adams’s in hiring.
“They used the Police Department as their own little playground,” Essig told the New York Times.
Each of the plaintiffs says that, with Adams’s approval, they were either demoted or forced into retirement after raising concerns about the practices, according to their lawsuits.
They claim that the practice began in 2023 with Jeff Maddrey, the former police chief and an ally of Adams, allegedly bypassing standard hiring protocol to bring “unqualified friends” into positions to positions in the city’s public safety apparatus.
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Serpico lives!
Not good.
However: It’s either this or defunding the police altogether under Mandani.
Violent crime is down under Adams…
The rule is that you always vote for the corrupt Democrat over an ideologue.
Wondering if four former high ranking cops have had a very recent infusion of cash?
When Mamdani defunds the NYPD I guess it won’t affect former police officers.
Unless he defunds pensions too which any good communist would.
That would be my guess…..bad, wormy apples.
I wonder is Essig’s lawsuit mentions the fact that he has family on the job, and they got perks they would not have gotten had their name not been the same as his.
I knew an LAPD officer who was on NYPD and his first assignment was to go to certain corners to pick up envelopes of cash from prostitutes and drug clients. He quit and LAPD hired him.
Go ahead. Bite the big apple.
Don’t mind the maggots.
L
This is NYC. Corruption is how the system works.
Bingo! It's the only way to get to a 'Rat Urban Utopia.
They just sealed the deal for the socialist dem candidate.
“They just sealed the deal for the socialist dem candidate.”
i believe that was the point ...
‘They’ really want the communist to win, don’t they...
Yep now they get it good and hard
Crime of all kinds is rampant; it just doesn't get processed much, nor reported.
Paid for by George Soros.
Trump announced yesterday that he is going to clean up New York. Oh, well.
So, you think everyone accused of a crime in New York state is guilty?
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