Ex-NYPD Chief Jeffery Maddrey’s lawyer attacked the police lieutenant who accused Maddrey of a lurid sex-for-overtime association, saying she lied concerning the former prime cop to get away with a “scheme” to gather extra time pay — although the lawyer admitted the 2 had a “consensual” sexual relationship.
Maddrey was town’s highest-ranking uniformed police officer till his resignation final week after the bombshell allegations from NYPD Lt. Quathisha Epps, who mentioned he sexually harassed her and compelled her to carry out “unwanted sexual favors” in return for extra time pay.
“We can tell you now, those allegations are a lie,” Maddrey’s lawyer, Lambros Lambrou, mentioned. “They’re not true. We deny every aspect of them.”
Lawyer Lambros Lambrou, left, chatting with the press along with his shopper ex-NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, proper, concerning accusations that Maddrey pressured a subordinate right into a quid professional quo of intercourse in return for extra time pay, at 45 Broadway, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (Shawn Inglima/New York Each day Information)
Epps filed a proper grievance with the U.S. Equal Employment Alternative Fee on Saturday.
She alleged Maddrey repeatedly demanded intercourse in alternate for her getting extra time hours, and that when the lieutenant started to reject Maddrey’s advances, he retaliated by including her title to an inventory of the division’s prime extra time earners, in line with the grievance.
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NYPD Lt. Quathisha Epps. (NYPD)
However Maddrey’s lawyer mentioned Epps got here out with the allegations in opposition to him to get away with submitting for tons of extra time, together with $204,000 simply this 12 months.
“Lieutenant Epps got caught with her hand in the cookie jar and is trying to deflect her own wrongdoing by making these allegations against Chief Maddrey in the hopes that she will get away with part or all of her scheme,” Lambrou mentioned.
Lawyer Lambros Lambrou, middle, chatting with the press along with his shopper ex-NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, proper, who’s the topic of an EEOC grievance by a former subordinate, at 45 Broadway, on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (Shawn Inglima/New York Each day Information)
The lawyer additionally mentioned that, as NYPD chief of division, Maddrey had no oversight of extra time requests.
“He’s going to take the gloves off and fight for his good name going forward, and he looks forward to proving that these allegations are nothing more than an attempt to skirt criminal liability,” Lambrou mentioned of his shopper.
The previous police chief appeared blank-faced standing alongside Lambrou on the lawyer’s downtown Manhattan workplace on Friday. He didn’t handle reporters.
Ex-NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey at a press convention along with his lawyer at 45 Broadway on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (Shawn Inglima/New York Each day Information)
Lambrou mentioned Epps and Maddrey had a “consensual adult relationship,” indicating this is able to be confirmed with “tons” of “X-rated and racy videos and photographs” despatched by Epps, whom the lawyer known as a “self-professed swinger.”
In the meantime, Eric Sanders, an lawyer representing Epps, slammed the previous police chief as a “degenerate.”
“This clown is a f—ing disgrace,” he countered. “We have a treasure trove of digital data that will hopefully bring this degenerate to justice.”
Maddrey has been beneath an excessive amount of scrutiny prior to now, together with for a confrontation with a police officer named Tabatha Foster, who claims she was concerned with him. Sanders additionally represented Foster and mentioned Lambrou was utilizing the “same old dilatory tactics” in opposition to Epps that he used to defend Maddrey versus Foster.
Epps filed for retirement earlier this month, however she was suspended shortly afterward, after an inside investigation into her extra time pay started.
Maddrey has been named in a number of different fits, together with one sexual harassment swimsuit he was added to final week after Epps’ allegations got here to gentle.
“Jeff resigned and retired upon hearing of this last meritless complaint, because he’s been through this before,” his lawyer mentioned of Epps’ grievance. “The city has enough going on without these allegations swirling around.”
