NYPDs former top cop Jeffrey Maddreys years-long sexual abuse was an open secret, sources say: So many more of us
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.”Maddrey abruptly resigned before Epps’ allegations were made public.
He has denied all claims against him.In 2016, former NYPD officer Tabitha Foster, 49, alleged in a federal lawsuit that Maddrey dragged her into a years-long affair that began while she was pregnant and he was her supervisor at the 75th Precinct in East New York.
It descended into physical and mental abuse, she claimed in court documents.Foster, who said she suffered from PTSD stemming from abuse when she was a child, claimed Maddrey used “knowledge of her martial problems and the traumas she suffered as a child” to take advantage of her, according to court docs.
The charges are similar to the emotional manipulation Epps said she faced.At one point, Maddrey even said, “crazy p—y is the best p—y,” according to Foster’s suit.In December 2015, when the pair met at a Queens park, Maddrey beat her and shoved her to the ground, prompting her to pull a gun on him, she claimed in the litigation.
After snatching the gun from her, Maddrey allegedly choked her before dismantling the firearm, according to court documents. Foster went public with the affair soon after, accusing Maddrey on Facebook of “chasing pregnant married girls around the department,” prompting an Internal Affairs investigation. Maddre...