Donlon filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to appoint a special monitor to oversee the nation’s largest police force.

Donlon claims top NYPD officials forged his signature, rigged promotions, and had his wife arrested in a scheme to silence him.

The NYPD’s former chief of detectives filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging he was forced out of the department and retaliated against because he raised concerns over what he viewed as improper promotions and transfers,

Four high-ranking former New York City police officials are accusing Mayor Eric Adams and his top deputies of doling out promotions to unqualified allies as part of a scheme that also involved alleged cash bribes paid to the ex-police commissioner.

A former NYPD commissioner accused the internal operations of the city’s police department of being “criminal at its core,” in a civil lawsuit that implicates senior officials in widespread police corruption.

The allegations were made in a lawsuit filed by a former chief of detectives, James Essig, who said he was forced out of the NYPD after raising concerns about the promotions.