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An NYPD lieutenant alleged in harrowing detail how the department’s hulking top cop preyed on her financial and emotional vulnerabilities to repeatedly sexually demean her in his Police Headquarters office, according to a new complaint. Lt. Quathisha Epps was facing foreclosure and desperate to keep her home the first time Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey asked for sex, she claimed in an exclusive interview. **SNIP** Maddrey strongly denies Epps’ claims. In one painful session, he bent her over a sofa in his 13th-floor office, she claimed to The Post, sobbing. “I kept asking him, ‘Can you please stop?’ Then I...

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...