By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2024-12-28 17:20:22 | Updated at 2024-12-29 07:35:12
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Investigators searched a top floor of NYPD headquarters last week, seeking evidence in the tawdry sex-for-overtime scandal exposed by The Post, sources said.
The sleuths performed a crime scene analysis in the 13th-floor office of recently ousted Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey at One Police Plaza, where he allegedly preyed on Lt. Quathisha Epps and demanded sexual favors from her in exchange for green-lighting her staggering overtime pay, a source said.
The investigators likely were looking for evidence of sexual abuse, a potential felony, a source said.
Epps alleged in an Equal Opportunity Complaint that Maddrey, the Force’s top uniformed cop, had sex with her eight to 10 times in his office.
“She’s alleging it was coerced. That’s non-consensual,” an ex-NYPD official said of a possible criminal charge in the case.
Maddrey’s lawyer denied the allegations on Friday, insisting the ex-NYPD honcho had a “consensual” relationship with Epps, and that he was weighing a civil suit against her.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office announced last week it is probing the devastating allegations against Maddrey, and a police source said the feds are also probing the sex-for-overtime scandal.
Epps previously told The Post Maddrey first propositioned her in June 2023, telling his underling he wanted to have anal sex with her.
He then allegedly bent her over the couch in his office and violently pulled down her pants before reaching in a locker to pull out a bottle of KY-Jelly, she said.
He then had sex with her even after she said “stop,” Epps alleged.
A police officer close to Maddrey recently was seen going into the disgraced ex-chief’s office and removing unknown items after The Post reached out to the NYPD for comment on Epps’ allegation last week, a second police source said.
It wasn’t clear what items the cop removed.
