Former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s alleged years-long sexual abuse and exploitation of women on the force was an “open secret,” according to police sources and accusers.
The sex scandal rocking One Police Plaza busted open Saturday,
when The Post revealed salacious allegations from Lt. Quatisha Epps, 51, who accused Maddrey, 53, in a formal complaint of forcing her into a sexual relationship in exchange for staggering overtime windfalls.
At least two other department women have accused Maddrey of wrongdoing.
“He’s a predator,” a police source, who works at the NYPD headquarters, told The Post of Maddrey. “It’s an open secret. Everyone knows who he is.”
“He basically kissed me at the parties and he would make the comments, ‘I want you so bad, you smell so good,’” she told The Post.
When Maddrey would stop by the stationhouse, where Walls, then a lieutenant, was assigned, she would hide from the alleged predator, according to the court docs.
“I had to hide in my office and turn off the light and close the door,” she said.
Epps alleged Maddrey ordered her to “take care” of another officer in the chief of department’s office. Epps had to help the female detective specialist with apartment hunting, during which she billed for overtime, the lieutenant said.
Maddrey went so far as to instruct Epps to hand over to the detective,
whose name The Post is withholding, the keys to a third-floor NYCHA apartment on Eldridge Street.
Maddrey had an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with another woman in is office, Epps alleged in the EEOC complaint. The unidentified woman made north of $300,000 last year, according to records.
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