A bombshell lawsuit by a former interim NYPD commissioner accusing Mayor Eric Adams’ administration of working a sprawling corruption conspiracy contained in the division has been tossed by a federal choose.
Tom Donlon filed the startling go well with final spring, claiming that Adams and prime police brass ran the division like a “prison enterprise,” and accused them of racketeering.
However Manhattan federal Choose Denise Cote discovered the defendants had “totally different motivations” and never “a single need to additional their prison enterprise,” as she dismissed the 243 web page RICO lawsuit.
“The defendants lacked a typical goal and had been as a substitute motivated by their very own private pursuits and resentments,” Cote wrote on Wednesday.
Donlon’s lawyer, John Socla, had filed for an enchantment by Friday.
“The court docket didn’t discover that the misconduct he described didn’t happen,” Scola advised The Publish, “solely that, in its view, the NYPD didn’t match the technical definition of a RICO enterprise.”
Donlon claimed within the go well with that his makes an attempt to root out corruption had been stymied by Adams and then-powerful prime cops, together with Deputy Mayor for Public Security Kaz Daughtry, NYPD Chief of Division John Chell and Deputy Commissioner in Cost of Public Data Tarik Sheppard.
However as a substitute of working with him, Donlon claimed the leaders rewarded their loyal lackeys and inflicted payback on him — together with arresting his spouse.
“Mr. Donlon uncovered corruption on the highest ranges of the NYPD and was compelled out for refusing to go together with it,” Scola mentioned.
