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Ex-NYPD Commissioner Files Racketeering Suit Against Adams and Senior Officials

The complaint demands a federal monitor, charging Adams’s inner circle with racketeering schemes including manipulated promotions, false arrests, spied communications, obstructed investigations.

FILE - Interim New York Police Commissioner Thomas G. Donlon attends a news conference outside the United Nations Headquarters, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, file)
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Photo by: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 7/8/25 Mayor Eric Adams holds a press briefing at the NYCEM office to speak about the weather alert due to extreme heat and possible flash flooding from rain later in the day. He was joined by NYCEM commissioner Zachary Iscol and others who spoke on the issues related to electricity use, swimming pool hours, and cooling centers.
(NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon) Mayor Eric Adams, along with top Police brass, held a Press Conference at the 17th Precinct in Manhattan to inform the Media that NYPD Officers made an arrest in the case of three separate and unprovoked stabbings by one crazed individual, two of which were fatal, on Monday Nov. 18, 2024. 1048. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Overview

  • Former interim commissioner Thomas Donlon filed a 251-page federal RICO lawsuit in the Southern District of New York accusing Mayor Eric Adams and top NYPD and city hall officials of running city government and the police department as a criminal enterprise.
  • The suit alleges defendants committed wire fraud, mail fraud, honest-services fraud and obstruction of justice to reward politically connected officers with unearned raises and promotions forged using Donlon’s commissioner stamp.
  • Donlon claims senior NYPD brass blocked his internal misconduct probes, monitored his personal communications and orchestrated the false arrest and press leak of his wife in retaliation for his oversight efforts.
  • Named in the complaint are Mayor Adams, former Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, current Chief John Chell, Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry, First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella, former Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard and other top officials.
  • City Hall has dismissed the allegations as baseless while the filing follows similar whistleblower lawsuits by four former NYPD chiefs and renews demands for an independent federal monitor.