A New York City police lieutenant has harrowingly revealed how the department's hulking top cop took advantage of her financial and emotional weaknesses and repeatedly sexually degraded her in his office at police headquarters, according to a new complaint. appealed in detail.
Lt. Kwatisha Epps claimed in an exclusive interview that the first time Commissioner Jeffrey Madley asked her for sex, she was facing foreclosure and was desperate to stay in her home.
“He wanted anal sex, vaginal sex and oral sex,” said the mother of three.
“He always wanted me to kiss his penis.”
Mr. Madeley strongly denies Epps' claims.
During one painful session, he made her bend over a couch in his 13th-floor office, she tearfully claimed to the Post.
“I kept saying to him, ‘Can you please stop?’ Then I stopped asking him to stop.
“'Can you please slow down for a second?' You're hurting me! You're hurting me! ” she argued.
Mr. Epps, 51, recently made headlines as the NYPD's top earner, earning $400,000, including more than $200,000 in overtime.
According to an equal employment opportunity discrimination lawsuit filed against the city on Saturday, the chief, the highest-ranking uniformed officer on the force, had “overtime opportunities and He allegedly demanded “unwanted sexual entertainment” in exchange.
The complaint alleges that Madley also used what he knew about her past as an incest survivor to take advantage of her.
“I think he's a predator,” Epps said.
“He said, 'We're going to save your house,' as if you were supporting me, when really you were just having sex with me.”
The suit filed by Epps' attorney, Eric Saunders, says that even when Epps wasn't asking for sex, he forced her to perform bizarre requests involving other female officers.
EEOC documents are a precursor to litigation.
Epps claimed that Madley ordered his two mistresses to separate because they “didn't want them to know about each other.”
Mr. Epps worked as Mr. Madeley's manager when he was promoted from housing director to patrol chief in the New York City Police Department, but the sexual demands allegedly occurred in June 2023, when Mr. Epps became chief of police and received 36,000 yen. It wasn't until he was in charge of the entire human crew. , Mr. Epps alleges in his complaint.
That's when she claimed to have confided in him that she was facing bankruptcy and foreclosure.
“He told me I could work any overtime I needed,” she recalled.
“He said I was like a sister.”
But Epps said the favor he requested was not familial.
He frequently sent her messages that read “DAP” (slang for “Dat ain't py”), which Epps claimed meant he wanted anal sex.
He also complained that he came to her office and “asked me to kiss him,” which she claimed was a reference to his penis.
He always told her he had “wish and commands” and she had to do as he said, she insisted.
“He would say, 'Strip right now,'” Epps claimed.
Oddly enough, in the complaint, Epps claimed that he ordered her to pay for a vacation to Miami for Madley and his wife, Helen.
“There was a trip I paid $2,700 for,” she recalled.
“He told me to make it look like a gift. He has a whole script of what to say. [to his wife]”
He also allegedly asked her to give the family's Lower East Side apartment, which was in the children's names, to a detective in Madrid.
Epps claimed that her first alleged sexual encounter with Epps occurred in June 2023, when Madley sat at her desk with her uniform pants open and rubbed her breasts over her white underwear.
“He said he had a dream about sexually assaulting me,” Epps claimed.
“I said, 'But Director, you're the head of the department.' . . . He said, 'But I'm still a —-r, and you look good.'
He then told her to go to the back room of his office, where there was a couch and a bathroom, she said.
“He bent me over the arm of the sofa and when I tried to back away he said to me, 'Let me have a little bit,'” she claimed.
He then reached into a locker near the couch, removed a jar of KY jelly from the top shelf in the back, and smeared it on himself, she alleged.
When she asked him to slow down, he said in a low voice: “I'm not going to hurt you, baby. I'm not going to hurt you,” she recalled.
Epps claimed the two had sex about 10 times after that.
Epps, who claims she was raped by a relative starting when she was four years old, said she was afraid to tell anyone about Madley.
“Who was I going to tell?'' she said.
“Who will believe me?”
According to the complaint, the last alleged sexual encounter occurred on Monday, after Epps visited Madrid and told her he wanted to resign following the Post's revelations about excessive overtime.
According to EEOC documents, Madeley told her he was going to speak to Police Chief Jessica Tisch on her behalf, but first demanded that she “kiss him,” meaning his penis. It is said that he did.
Feeling he had no other choice, Epps “complied with coercion,” the complaint states.
She filed for retirement shortly thereafter, “culminating in the severe emotional and professional harm inflicted on her by Chief Madrid's abuse of power.”
The department subsequently suspended Ms. Epps and launched an investigation against her.
Mr. Madrid denied Epps' claims.
“What an opportune time to charge someone with fraud who has been arrested for stealing time,” said Lambros Lambreau, Madley's lawyer.
“She is clearly drowning in the deep end of the pool and there are no life preservers. She wants to take down as many people as possible. This is completely nonsensical and we deny every aspect of it.” .”
