New Year, Same Dysfunction | 01-03-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

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4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 181 minutes

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On this Friday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, it's a new year for the NYPD, but the dysfunction within the department remains consistent, with now disgraced former NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey's home being raided earlier this week. It's a new year for the United States Congress as well, but the GOP lawmakers continue to fight over the same nonsense in 2025, threatening to vote current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson out of his speakership seat. In other news of the day, Jihadism is here and it is real, and Sid officially makes the cut on Roger Stone's "Best Dressed of 2024" list. Joseph Abboud, Curtis Sliwa, Mike Lawler, Ray Kelly, Joe Tacopina and Joe Benigno join Sid on this Friday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	77 WabC.
0:03.0	This is sit-in friends in the morning.
0:05.5	No, I get by with a little help for my friends.
0:09.5	More controversy surrounding the NYPD's former top uniform cop, federal agents raiding the home of Jeffrey Madreep.
0:15.7	Foxx-Eyes Morgan McKay joining us live outside of his home in Rosdale, Queens.
0:18.8	Morgan, what do we know about the search?
0:20.1	What we know right now is that federal agents and officers from the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau
0:24.8	rated Jeffrey Madre's home this morning. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish in a statement said
0:29.5	that other locations have been searched as well, but didn't give specifics. She also said
0:34.8	that Madri has been suspended without pay. Madri submitted his resignation in late December, but that wasn't set to go into effect until later this month.
0:44.9	Video of officers taking boxes and bins of papers out of Madri's home.
0:50.9	Madri had been serving as NYPD's chief of department, but abruptly announced
0:54.9	his retirement one day before he was publicly accused of forcing a subordinate to have sex
1:00.4	with him.
1:01.2	Lieutenant Quatisha Epps filed a complaint against Madri with the U.S. Equal Employment
1:05.7	Opportunity Commission, accusing Madri of forcing her into sexual acts in return for benefits and massive amounts of overtime pay.
1:15.0	Epps is also being investigated after officials learned that she made more than $400,000 last year.
1:21.2	Madri has denied the accusations that he forced Epps to have sex with him,
1:25.1	claiming that the relationship was consensual.
1:30.6	We have reached out to Madre's lawyer, but haven't heard back yet.
1:34.7	Reportedly, federal investigators have joined the city's Department of Investigation to look into these allegations of overtime abuse and sexual misconduct.
1:39.4	A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
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