Tom Donlon, former NYPD Commissioner, has filed a 251-page lawsuit against Mayor Eric Adams and high-ranking police officials. The lawsuit accuses them of using the police department to conceal a criminal enterprise and includes charges such as illegal arrest and false promotion practices within the NYPD. Donlon claims misconduct by spokesperson Tarik Sheppard, who allegedly manipulated promotion processes and undermined Donlon's authority. The mayor's office dismissed Donlon's allegations as baseless and a sign of discontent.
Donlon accuses Tarik Sheppard, then a spokesperson for the NYPD, of usurping the promotion process to elevate his own rank in the department. The lawsuit alleges that Sheppard and others removed Donlon's picks from a list of officers to be promoted and replaced them with their own favorites. Sheppard then promoted himself to the rank of three-star chief and used Donlon's signature stamp on a promotion memo without his permission, the suit says.
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.
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