By Politico
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NEW YORK — Former interim NYPD commissioner Tom Donlon (below left, above middle) is suing the department, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and several former and current police executives alleging the nation’s largest police force operated as a vast criminal enterprise designed to enrich top officials.
“A coordinated criminal conspiracy had taken root at the highest levels of City government — carried out through wire fraud, mail fraud, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and retaliation against whistleblowers,” the complaint alleges. “This enterprise — the NYPD—was criminal at its core.”
The suit, filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, is just the latest from former NYPD executives to allege corruption during Adams’ tenure.
The incendiary accusations are unfolding as Adams wages a longshot bid for a second mayoral term running as an independent.
Taken together, Donlon alleged the acts amounted to racketeering, a criminal conspiracy most commonly associated with organized crime enterprises.
“This lawsuit is not a personal grievance; it is a statement against a corrupt system that betrays the public, silences truth, and punishes integrity,” Donlon said in a statement accompanying the suit. “The goal is to drive real change, hold the corrupt, deceitful, and abusively powerful accountable, and restore the voice of every honorable officer who has been silenced or denied justice.” READ MORE…
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