Documents seen by the Daily News show that Maddrey kept his job even though NYPD internal affairs investigators believed he “wrongfully impeded an official Department investigation by providing inaccurate or otherwise misleading statements.”
The new details on de Blasio and former First Lady Chirlane McCray’s influence on NYPD personnel decisions emerged through an ongoing lawsuit filed by former Chief of Community Affairs Joanne Jaffe, who was the NYPD’s first female three-star chief.
Sewell would become the first black woman to hold the post of NYPD's top cop, once current NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea retires at the end of the year
Sewell would become the first black woman to hold the post of NYPD's top cop, once current NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea retires at the end of the year