An NYPD lieutenant alleged in harrowing detail how the department’s hulking top cop preyed on her financial and emotional vulnerabilities to repeatedly sexually demean her in his Police Headquarters office, according to a new complaint.Lt.Quathisha Epps was facing foreclosure and desperate to keep her home the first time Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey asked for sex, she claimed in an exclusive interview.
“He wanted to have anal sex, vaginal sex, oral sex,” the mother of three said.“He was always asking me to kiss his penis.”Maddrey strongly denies Epps’ claims.In one painful session, he bent her over a sofa in his 13th-floor office, she claimed to The Post, sobbing.“I kept asking him, ‘Can you please stop?’ Then I stopped asking him to stop.“‘Can you please just slow down? You’re hurting me! You’re hurting me!’ ” she alleged.Epps, 51, recently made headlines for being the NYPD’s top earner at $400,000, which included more than $200,000 in overtime.
The chief, the highest ranking uniformed cop on the force, demanded “unwanted sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities,” between June 2023 and Dec.16, 2024, according to an Equal Opportunity Employment discrimination claim filed against the city Saturday.She alleged Maddrey also used what he knew about her past as an incest survivor to take advantage of her, according to the complaint.
“I think he’s a predator,” Epps said.“He’d say, ‘We’re going to save your house’ like you’re supporting me when you’re really just f—ing me.”When he wasn’t demanding sex, he was forcing Epps to do odd favors involving other female officers, according to the complaint filed by her lawyer, Eric Sanders.
The EEOC document is a precursor to a lawsuit.Maddrey ordered Epps to keep two mistresses apart because “he didn’t want them to know about each other,” Epps claimed.Epps worked as an administrator for Maddrey as he moved up in the NYPD from chief of housin...