By Samantha Max\Gothamist
Photos: YouTube Screenshots
A near-assault during a photo op. “Spies” assigned to monitor the NYPD commissioner. The illegal arrest of the then-ousted commissioner’s wife after a minor fender bender.
These are just a few of the bombshell allegations in a 251-page lawsuit former NYPD Commissioner Tom Donlon (above left) filed Wednesday, accusing Mayor Eric Adams and high-ranking police officials of using the police department to cover up a criminal enterprise.
The mayor’s office called Donlon a “disgruntled former employee” and said he was lodging “baseless accusations” to seek compensation. Donlon said in a statement that the lawsuit “is a statement against a corrupt system that betrays the public, silences truth and punishes integrity.”
The lengthy legal complaint is chock-full of alleged details from Donlon’s brief tenure leading the NYPD and its aftermath.
Here are five particularly dramatic claims: READ MORE…
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