More female officers in disgraced top cop Jeffrey Maddrey’s orbit pulled down massive overtime and other perks, The Post has learned.
The driver for the former chief of department made an eye-popping $163,414 in OT last year — and resigned days after The Post exposed her boss’s alleged sleazy conduct at police headquarters, records show.
Detective Ingrid Sanders was the seventh-highest overtime earner in the department, boosting her total salary last fiscal year to $352,462, records show.
That put her pay not far behind Lt. Quathisha Epps, the top earner who made $403,515, including $204,453 in OT. Epps filed an explosive Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint accusing Maddrey of giving Epps overtime shifts in exchange for sex, The Post revealed in a front-page exclusive Sunday.
On the day of the Post’s inquiry, Maddrey quit. Sanders was immediately transferred from One Police Plaza to a Queens precinct, and filed for retirement on Dec. 23, The Post found in police documents.
Sanders is a first-grade detective — the top grade — who served in the chief of department’s office since December 2022. She followed Maddrey there from the Patrol Services Bureau. She didn’t return multiple messages.
Maddrey also sought favors for second detective, Ada Reyes, The Post has learned.
Epps, Maddrey’s personnel manager, told The Post that part of her OT was devoted to taking care of Reyes.
“The overtime that he would give me he would tell me to buy her things like get her some towels and things from Walmart, a microwave, and stuff like that so she doesn’t have to come out of her pocket,” Epps said. “I make the overtime and then I give things to her.
“He would have me go apartment hunting with her,” Epps said. “I would be at work and he would tell me to get up and go with her to look for an apartment.”
Eventually, Epps claimed, Maddrey told her to rent an apartment that was in her adult children’s names on the Lower East Side to Reyes and her family because they were having trouble finding housing.
Two sources confirmed the apartment arrangement to The Post.
Reyes made $42,500 in as a new police officer in 2019 but her pay jumped to $154,405 in 2024, including $55,923 in overtime, city records show.
When Reyes came to work at NYPD headquarters in 2023, Maddrey told Epps to put her somewhere other than his 13th-floor office, Epps told The Post.
“Ingrid [Sanders] and I worked directly for him, and he was very specific not to put Reyes in the office,” Epps said. “He didn’t want her and Ingrid bumping heads.” Reyes was assigned to a domestic violence unit in another part of the building, she said.
Reyes didn’t return multiple phone and text messages seeking comment. Nobody was at the apartment when The Post visited. A neighbor confirmed she and her husband lived there after looking at a photograph of her.
Epps’ alleged overtime agreement with Maddrey began because she was having financial problems and her home was being foreclosed on, she said.
Maddrey, the highest ranking uniformed cop on the force, demanded “unwanted sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities” from Epps, between June 2023 and Dec. 16, 2024, the EEOC complaint alleges.
Maddrey would send her text messages telling her to close her door and “strip for me right now.” She would take video and send it to him, she told The Post.
Epps claimed she had sex with Maddrey between eight and 10 times on the couch in his inner office.
The first time, Maddrey told her he dreamed of having anal sex with her and then violently pulled her pants down and did so despite her repeatedly telling him to “stop,” she told The Post.
“I think he’s a predator,” Epps said.
At a Friday press conference, Maddrey’s lawyer, Lambros Lambrau, called Epps a “self-professed swinger” who is under investigation for “stealing time and putting in for overtime she never worked.
“Now Lieutenant Epps got caught with her hands in the cookie jar and is trying to deflect her own wrongdoing by making these allegations against Chief Maddrey,” Lambrou said.
“However, the truth is Lieutenant Epps had a consensual adult relationship, albeit for a short time with Jeff,” he said, adding they have a ton of evidence including “X rated and racy videos and photographs from Lieutenant Epps.”
Maddrey didn’t speak during the press conference and ignored questions yelled at him from the media.
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