According to the new lawsuit, Li, during the NYPD of the Department of Interior Affairs, repeatedly attacked female sergeants who work under him, telling her she has a “nice rack.”
Sergeant. Fizgeralda Sanchez joined the division in 2007 and served in November 2024 with Lt. Ronald Reynolds in the Bronx unit. He soon went out to Sanchez, 46, for “breakfast, lunch, dinner” and began quizzing her in the situation of her relationship.
One day, when she was wearing a close-up top to work, he told her she had a “nice rack,” according to court documents.
According to the lawsuit, harassment has been so widespread that he warned him, “Please don't let him be left alone with him.”
However, his suspected behavior continued, escalating at the unit's Christmas party at Russo's on the Bay in Queens on December 12th, where he told her that she was “good, hot and beautiful.”
“At the table he insisted, 'You look so beautiful, you look so hot. Hey, do you want to go on a strip with me?” Sanchez insisted. “I was like, 'It's definitely not.' He comes back a few minutes later and looks like, “Come to the strip club and you can give me a lap dance.” ”
After the party, Sanchez began wearing another outfit to cover her back and front, the suit claims.
“I've been wearing a sweater for so long ever since,” she said.
About a week before the Christmas party, he asked her to come to his office. When she arrived he was watching a TV show showing that the two were having sex, according to the suit.
She “runs out of the office.” A week after the Christmas party, he winks and asks if she wants to come to his office again, she insisted.
“It's clear to her that he's asking her to have sex with him in his office,” the lawsuit.
However, she refused to return to the office. According to the lawsuit, it was when retaliation began.
Up until that point, Sanchez, who came to the unit after her 24-year-old daughter passed away, had taken a break every Sunday and Monday, so she could get grief counseling at the church.
However, Reynolds told her she was changing her regular holidays on Fridays and Saturdays when counselling was not available. When she objected, he told her that if she wanted to maintain her shift, she should “moved to the NYPD Records Room” downtown.
In her lawsuit, Sanchez, who has been in the work for 18 years, seeks private amounts for her pain and suffering. She continues to work at IAB.
“After the tragic loss of my daughter, our clients sought a safer environment for internal affairs, merely in the face of relentless sexual harassment and retaliation,” said lawyer John Scola.
“When she refused to advance the supervisor, he tried to forward her and disrupt the therapy she was grieving.
She called the Equal Employment Opportunity Corps twice to file a complaint with the NYPD, but they didn't return her call, she said.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tish conducted an overhaul at the IAB in December, making major changes to the department's leadership.
Reynolds declined to comment on the lawsuit. Lt. Col. Lou Turco defended Lunolds and called the allegations “decisively untrue.” The NYPD is considering lawsuits in a statement saying it “does not tolerate sexual harassment.”
