Two ladies who labored for disgraced ex-NYPD honcho Jeffrey Maddrey are ensnared within the federal probe of the intercourse-for-overtime scandal, The Publish has realized.
The houses of Detective Ingrid Sanders, Maddrey’s former driver, and Detective Ada Reyes had been raided by investigators, regulation enforcement sources stated.
“The FBI got here to their doorways, executed search warrants, issued grand jury subpoenas and has recognized them as topics within the investigation,” one of many sources stated. “They’re within the middle of this s–t storm.”
The probe by the US Division of Justice’s Southern District of New York is targeted whether or not federal funds had been misused to pay for stolen additional time, sources informed The Publish.
The 2 ladies aren’t thought-about targets within the investigation and aren’t dealing with prices, sources stated.
The probe was launched after The Publish’s Dec. 21 front-page expose concerning the NYPD’s prime additional time earner Lt. Quathisha Epps. She filed a federal criticism towards Maddrey, then the division’s prime uniformed cop, alleging he used OT to coerce her into performing “undesirable sexual favors” between June 2023 and Dec. 16, 2024.
Epps, 51, raked in a surprising $400,000-plus final 12 months, about half in OT, information present. Maddrey has repeatedly insisted by his lawyer that their sexual relationship was consensual.
Epps shared the intercourse allegations in excruciating element with The Publish — calling the then-chief of division a “predator.” Maddrey stepped down after The Publish contacted the NYPD for remark.
“He needed to have anal intercourse, vaginal intercourse, oral intercourse,” Epps stated. “He was at all times asking me to kiss his penis.”
Epps informed The Publish Maddrey, an in depth pal of Mayor Adams, allegedly focused her as a result of she was having cash issues and had been a sufferer of incest as a toddler.
Epps labored with Maddrey as he moved up within the division from chief of housing to chief of patrol after which chief of division.
Sanders, who joined the division in 1993, made an eye-popping $163,414 in OT final 12 months — and resigned days after The Publish uncovered her boss’s alleged conduct at police headquarters.
Reyes, who additionally labored for Maddrey, was transferred to public housing after The Publish’s expose. She made $42,500 as a brand new police officer in 2019 — however her pay jumped to $154,405 in 2024, together with $55,923 in additional time, metropolis information present.
Each Sanders and Reyes have employed attorneys, a union official stated.
“This all falls on Maddrey,” the supply stated. “It is a supervisory subject. That is coming from the highest of the division on down. The truth is, its emanating from Metropolis Corridor on down.”
Because the allegations emerged, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has been cleansing home, ousting dozens of NYPD brass on Dec. 28 in a surprising purge, starting with bosses on the division’s Inner Affairs Bureau.
Attorneys for Sanders and Reyes didn’t instantly return messages.