The former head of the New York Police Department has filed a federal lawsuit against scandal-scarred New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other high ranking NYPD officials, alleging the group used their power and authority to run a what he called a “criminal enterprise.

New York’s former interim police commissioner sued Mayor Eric Adams, accusing him of engaging in systemic corruption and using the police department to consolidate political power.

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.