Former NYPD head sues Eric Adams for defamation

NEW YORK — The drama of former New York City Mayor Eric Adams lingers on: One of his administration’s police commissioners filed a defamation suit Tuesday against Adams and a top deputy.

The legal salvo from former interim NYPD Commissioner Tom Donlon is the latest back and forth from a particularly chaotic period that involved open warfare and dysfunction among police brass.

Donlon led the police department for around two months in the fall of 2024. After leaving city service, he filed a federal lawsuit alleging widespread corruption in the police department…

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