Paul Martinka
The NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer abruptly resigned late Friday night after The Post uncovered explosive allegations that he demanded sexual favors from a subordinate in exchange for massive amounts of overtime.
Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey stepped down soon after The Post contacted the NYPD about Lt. Quathisha Epps’ claims in an exclusive interview that he routinely preyed upon her, asking for sex in NYPD headquarters.
“He wanted to have anal sex, vaginal sex, oral sex,” Epps said. “He was always asking me to kiss his penis.”
Maddrey will be replaced on an interim basis by Chief of Patrol John Chell, the NYPD said.
Epps recently made headlines as the NYPD’s top earner, pulling in a whopping $400,000 — including roughly $204,000 in overtime alone last year for her administrative job in Maddrey’s office, payroll records show.
Epps and her lawyer Eric Sanders said they planned to file a notice of claim with the city comptroller’s office Saturday, outlining the scandalous allegations.
Epps, 51, worked for Maddrey as he moved up in the NYPD from Chief of Housing to Chief of Patrol, but said his sexual demands didn’t start until June 2023 when he landed as Chief of Department, the city’s top uniformed cop.
He allegedly first demanded sex from her in his 13th-floor office at One Police Plaza.
Maddrey was allegedly sitting at his desk with his uniform pants open and wearing a white undershirt while rubbing his chest when he first propositioned her, the mother of three said.
“He said he dreamed about f–king me in my a–,” Epps alleged. “I said, ‘But Chief, you’re the Chief of Department.’ He rubbed his chest. . . . His work pants were open. He was like but ‘I’m still a n—-r and you look good.”
Then he asked her to go to the back room in his office, where he has a couch and bathroom, she said.
“He bent me over the arm of the couch and when I tried to back away but he was telling me ‘Just let me put it in a little bit,’” she recalled, breaking down in sobs.
Next, he reached into a locker near the couch and pulled out a jar of K-Y Jelly from a top shelf in the back, she said. He rubbed it on himself, she claimed.
“He inserted himself, and he kept forcing it and forcing it,” she recalled. “And I kept asking him, ‘Can you please stop? Then I stopped asking him to stop, and I asked him to just slow down. ‘Can you please just slow down? You’re hurting me! You’re hurting me! ‘ ”
“‘I’m not trying to hurt you, baby. I’m not trying to hurt you,’” he said in a soft voice, she recalled.
The two had sexual intercourse about 10 times after that, she claimed.
Maddrey began being generous with overtime a couple years earlier, she said, when he was Chief of Patrol and she told him of financial problems.
“I told him I was about to lose my home,” she said, referencing a foreclosure. “He told me I could do whatever overtime I needed. He told me I was like his sister.”
But he would have her do things outside her job at headquarters, including helping his “girlfriend” – another cop under his direction, Epps claimed.
“Part of the overtime was to take care of his girlfriend,” she said. “He would have me go apartment hunting with her.”
Maddrey would also have her buy things, like household items for the other woman, she said.
Maddrey would frequently text Epps a single phrase, “DAP,” she said.
It meant he expected anal sex, Epps said. Maddrey would also come into her office and “ask me to kiss it,” she said, meaning his genitalia.
Maddrey allegedly told Epps he had “a wish and a command,” and that she would have to do what he said, she claimed.
“He’d say ‘Strip for me right now,’” when she was in her office, she recalled.
She once paid for a vacation to Miami for Maddrey and his wife, Epps claims.
“There was a trip that I paid for, for $2,700,” she recalled. “He said make it look like a gift. He has a whole script of what to say [to his wife].”
Epps said she also has an apartment on the Lower East Side that he asked her to give to his girlfriend. The home was in her children’s name.
Epps said she wanted to get away from Maddrey but was scared nobody would believe her.
“I think he’s a predator,” Epps said. “He’d say, ‘We’re going to save your house.’ Like he’s rescuing me. When he’s really just f—ing me.”
When she started to try to get away from Maddrey recently, Epps was outed on a list of high overtime earners in retaliation, Sanders said.
Epps was suspended for 30 days and is being investigated over the excessive overtime, police sources said.
Maddrey has been accused of sexual misconduct in the past.
Former Police Officer Tabitha Foster filed an unsuccessful 2016 civil suit alleging he took advantage of her by exchanging sex for job perks. A judge threw the case out and cleared Maddrey. Foster also accused Maddrey of hitting her.
Maddrey denied Epps’ allegations.
“What a convenient time to accuse somebody of misconduct after she’s caught stealing time,” said Maddrey attorney, Lambros Lambrou. “She’s obviously drowning and in the deep end of the pool without a lifesaver. She wants to take down as many people as she can. This is completely meritless, and we deny every aspect of it.”
If you have been sexually assaulted and live in New York, you can call 1-800-942-6906 for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the state, you can dial the 24/7 National Sexual Assault hotline at 1-800-656-4673.