{"id":81072,"date":"2025-07-21T16:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81072\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:41:14","slug":"donlon-files-10m-claim-alleging-defamation-by-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81072\/","title":{"rendered":"Donlon files $10M\u00a0claim alleging defamation by mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Donlon, the former interim commissioner of the New York Police Department, has filed a $10 million notice of claim against the city of New York, Mayor Eric Adams and former Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard, alleging a coordinated effort to defame him following his allegations of corruption within the NYPD and City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The notice of claim, a required step before suing a city agency in New York, was filed days after Donlon brought a civil lawsuit in federal court that accuses the Adams administration of engaging in racketeering, civil rights violations and retaliation against whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>The civil suit\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/07\/16\/ex-nypd-chief-sues-mayor--alleges--criminal-enterprise-\" href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/07\/16\/ex-nypd-chief-sues-mayor--alleges--criminal-enterprise-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleges<\/a>\u00a0a pattern of fraudulent promotions, internal misconduct and obstruction of justice within the department.<\/p>\n<p>In his new claim\u00a0filed Monday morning, Donlon asserts that city officials retaliated with a \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d after the federal lawsuit was filed.<\/p>\n<p>Donlon accuses Sheppard of making false public statements during a television interview, including claims that Donlon\u2019s phones had been seized by federal investigators and that he suffered from cognitive issues. Adams later echoed those comments,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2025\/07\/18\/adams-rallies-with-supporters--tells-business-leaders-tom-donlon-had--mental--issues\" href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2025\/07\/18\/adams-rallies-with-supporters--tells-business-leaders-tom-donlon-had--mental--issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly questioning<\/a>\u00a0Donlon\u2019s mental fitness and suggesting he had been dismissed for refusing to undergo a psychological evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Donlon disputes those assertions, saying in the filing that his phones were never seized and that no such evaluation was ever requested.<\/p>\n<p>He also asserts that following his removal as interim commissioner in April, Adams appointed him as a senior adviser for public safety. Donlon argues that undermines the narrative that he was unfit to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Adams at an unrelated press conference on Monday appeared to suggest Donlon&#8217;s lawsuit was put together haphazardly, saying, &#8220;I know many of you won\u2019t talk about it, but if you see the original report, the original complaint, you see the misspells, you see the [grammatical] errors, you see the space. It was a rush. And so, this will be handled out in court.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Donlon, the former interim commissioner of the New York Police Department, has filed a $10 million notice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,7448,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,43431,5227,24032,80,13570,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-81072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-patrick-adcroft","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114892222277389463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}