Two New York Police detectives say they were retaliated against by their own department for investigating and exposing corruption and bribery among officers and officials in Mayor Eric Adams' office, according to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, reports the New York Post.
Detective William Seidman, 42, and his former partner, Detective Anthony Vidot, 57, who no longer work with the Department of Investigation, "stood against their corrupt superiors" and have "seen their careers destroyed in retaliation," said attorney John Scola, who filed the lawsuit.
The department, he added, "needs true independent oversight" to root out corruption and without "real reform, justice within the department is an illusion."
Seidman and Vidot started to get blowback for their work after uncovering claims that former NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban's twin brother, James, was trying to "extort" nightclub and bar owners in exchange for his help in smoothing relations with local police.
"We had the case in its infancy," Seidman told the Post in an exclusive interview. "One of the first names that popped for us was James Caban."
The pair went to higher ups with their discoveries.
"When this comes out ... you're going to have worlds collapsing," Seidman said he told DOI boss Audrey Feldman. "It's going to take the police department down."
They said their NYPD supervisors kept trying to get information from them and that they were bullied and intimidated for not giving it up.
Eventually, both detectives were taken off the corruption case and transferred to other units.
Seidman now works at a city shelter in the East Village as an Office of Emergency Management security officer and Vidot has retired and now drives a school bus part time.
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