Meet the billionaire heiress tasked with cleaning up New York cops despite never serving herself

A billionaire heiress from 1 of America's wealthiest dynasties has been tasked with cleaning up the troubled NYPD - contempt ne'er having worn the badge herself.

Jessica Tisch, whose household luck has ballooned to a staggering $10 billion, was sworn successful connected November 24 arsenic the department's second-ever pistillate commissioner, taking power of America's largest constabulary force.

The glamorous Harvard triple-graduate takes complaint arsenic the section faces unprecedented scrutiny, with her 2 predecessors' homes being raided by the FBI successful abstracted investigations.

The caller commissioner reports to Mayor Eric Adams, who himself is warring national indictment charges.

Before her emergence to power, the apical bull grew up arsenic portion of the powerful Tisch household - present ranked 43rd richest successful America by Forbes, with a luck exceeding $10 billion. 

In conscionable the past 9 years alone, her family's wealthiness has grown from $6billion to $10billion - but it began with her Russian migrant grandparents who arrived with virtually nothing. 

A Harvard Law and Business School graduate, Tisch is the granddaughter of CBS CEO Larry Tisch and antecedently ran New York City's Department of Information Technology and Sanitation Department.   

The caller commissioner addressed the elephant successful the country during her swearing-in ceremony.

'To the men and women of the NYPD, my top anticipation is that unneurotic we volition instrumentality this noble undertaking, this occupation of precocious motivation purpose, to a clip and a spot wherever you privation your children, your grandchildren, your nieces, your nephews to travel successful your footsteps and go constabulary officers,' Tisch said. 

'To the metropolis that I serve, the constabulary beryllium to destruct fearfulness and disorder. Your cops, similar generations earlier them, nobly enactment their lives connected the enactment each and each clip they enactment connected that azygous to support you and your families,' she continued. 

'And they bash a damn bully occupation of it. We volition proceed to bash that astir important foundational enactment to marque you safe, to marque you consciousness safe, and to amended your prime of beingness crossed the city.' 

The assignment has marked a caller section for the Tisch dynasty, whose sanction already adorns countless New York institutions done their philanthropic efforts.

The family's power extends acold beyond instrumentality enforcement, arsenic their immense concern empire includes stakes successful the New York Giants and Loews Corporation.

The household is besides known for some philanthropic giving and governmental donations crossed enactment lines.

Tisch's grandma - Wilma 'Billie' Tisch - was besides a cardinal fig successful section vigor presumption WNYC's modulation to autarkic status.  

Jessica Tisch's communicative begins with 2 brothers from Brooklyn's working-class Bensonhurst - her gramps Larry and great-uncle Bob, calved to Russian migrant parents successful the 1920s.

From these humble middle-class beginnings, the ambitious duo would spell connected to physique 1 of America's top household fortunes,    

After graduating from NYU and Wharton, Larry and Bob took their parents' $125,000 beingness savings and bought a wintertime edifice successful New Jersey - their archetypal measurement toward gathering 1 of America's top household fortunes.

The brothers went connected to bargain hotels and the Loews movie theatre chain, aboriginal diversifying into tobacco, security and offshore drilling, the Observer reported. 

Larry took the reins astatine CBS successful the 1980s, portion Bob became part-owner of the New York Giants.

Today, the Tisch sanction is everyplace successful New York - connected NYU's arts school, infirmary wings and Metropolitan Museum galleries.

Jessica's begetter Jim - nicknamed 'Little Larry' for his quality to spot undervalued businesses - present runs Loews Corporation arsenic CEO, portion her parent Merryl chairs the Metropolitan Council connected Jewish Poverty and sits connected New York's Board of Regents.

Jonathan Tisch serves arsenic the nationalist look of the family's edifice empire and made headlines with his $3 cardinal wedding astatine the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur. 

His relative Laurie chairs the Center for Arts Education and sits connected the boards of some the Whitney and Children's Museum of Manhattan. 

But contempt Tisch's deficiency of accepted constabulary experience, she has a estimation for being a superb person and is backed by erstwhile constabulary commissioners and higher ups. 

Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly backed Tisch's enactment and told Dailymail.com that she is 'the close idiosyncratic astatine the close time' to tackle the existent problems successful the constabulary department.

'I recovered her to beryllium a determination maker, whip-smart - and I deliberation that she showed that with her enactment successful 2 large New York metropolis agencies.'

'I deliberation she is the close idiosyncratic astatine the close clip to instrumentality connected the disarray that exists successful the constabulary section today,' helium told Dailymail.com. 

Kelly, who antecedently worked with Tisch and initially hired her, praised her absorption benignant and expressed assurance successful her leadership.

He said that the bulk of constabulary commissioners person not been erstwhile constabulary officers and that volition 'not hinder her successful immoderate way.'

'She's precise smart. She volition marque the close decisions arsenic acold arsenic unit and deployment,'

Recalling their clip moving together, Kelly said: 'We built a full caller bid halfway with $60 cardinal from the national authorities to bash it - and she was fundamentally the idiosyncratic successful charge.'

'It was not an casual happening to bash and she did it. The bid halfway turned retired truthful well. I property her oversight arsenic being a large crushed for that.'

'She's an experienced manager, an experienced leader, and she's done a precise bully occupation successful those positions,' helium told Dailymail.com. 

Another high-ranking root told The New York Post that 'Tisch means business.'

'She's cleaning up the messiness and putting the section backmost connected track,' they said.   

Adams besides insisted she didn't request to deterioration a badge to win astatine the job. 

'We indispensable crook the country and bring the innovation and thought process that Tisch brought her archetypal clip here, and what she brought into DSNY. A bully manager tin negociate anywhere,' Adams said astatine her swearing in.  

Additionally, Tisch brings superior tech credentials to the role, having antecedently served arsenic the NYPD's lawman commissioner for accusation exertion wherever she spearheaded the rollout of assemblage cameras.

Most recently, she tackled New York's trash situation arsenic sanitation commissioner.

Coincidentally enough, Tisch has present been tasked with cleaning up New York and she started by launching a dramatic purge of the department's apical cops. 

The sweeping clean-up came conscionable days aft explosive allegations emerged about former Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, who has been accused of trading intersexual favors for overtime astatine NYPD headquarters.

His subordinate Lieutenant Quathisha Epps accused him of predatory intersexual behavior. 

Among the dismissals includes Chief of Internal Affairs Miguel Iglesias who was ousted the aforesaid time the ungraded broke.

Inspector Joseph Profeta, who was caput of IAB's radical dedicated to investigating allegations against NYPD captains and above, was relocated to Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, documents obtained by the New York Post revealed. 

Meanwhile, IAB Special Opps Inspector Michael Ricciardi has been packed disconnected to Patrol Borough Manhattan North. 

The cleaning-house didn't halt there.

A twelve much IAB officers person been scattered to distant patrol posts crossed the city.

Five detectives wrong Maddrey's bureau and a constabulary serviceman were pushed retired from Maddrey's bureau and sent to locomotion the bushed successful lodging projects, according to the orders.

The allegations against Maddrey archetypal came to airy successful a New York Post report connected December 21, which elaborate claims by NYPD Lt. Epps. 

The ungraded erupted aft Epps made allegations against Maddrey, claiming she received $400,000 successful overtime payments successful speech for intersexual favors. 

Epps accused Maddrey of persistently soliciting intersexual favors, including requests for anal, vaginal, and oral sex, and described inappropriate advances specified arsenic asking her to buss his genitals. 

The alleged harassment took spot wrong NYPD office itself.

Epps alleged that Maddrey sought to bargain her soundlessness by awarding her important overtime. 

Epps' ineligible squad claims to person extended integer grounds supporting the allegations.

According to reports, Epps earned $204,000 successful overtime past year, making her the department's highest-paid serviceman successful Fiscal Year 2024 with full net of $400,000. 

At a December 27 property conference, Maddrey's attorney, Lambros Lambrou, categorically denied the allegations. 

Lambrous maintains his client's innocence, claiming the narration was consensual and that Maddrey had nary authorization implicit overtime approval. 

'We tin archer you present those allegations are a lie, they're not true, we contradict each facet of them.' Lambrou said.     

Federal agents raided the location of Maddrey earlier this period with the Manhattan US Attorney's Office spearheading the investigation.

In his erstwhile role, Maddrey oversaw the department's crime-fighting strategies, quality-of-life programs, and operations.

Maddrey, who abruptly resigned amid the allegations precocious past month, has powerfully denied the accusations. 

Following his resignation, John Chell was appointed interim Chief of Department, and Tisch officially removed the interim rubric connected New Year's Eve.

'At my direction, the Internal Affairs Bureau of the New York City Police Department is moving with instrumentality enforcement authorities to analyse allegations against erstwhile Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey,' Tisch said successful a Jan. 2 statement.

'Maddrey was suspended from the Department this morning, arsenic instrumentality enforcement agents executed hunt warrants astatine respective locations, including his residence. Any further inquiries astir this substance should beryllium directed to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.'

Video footage shared by Freedomnews TV connected X captured national agents leaving Maddrey's Rosedale, Queens residence connected January 2, carrying boxes and entering unmarked achromatic vehicles.

The raid adds Maddrey to the increasing database of officials linked to Mayor Eric Adams who person faced national scrutiny. 

Others see erstwhile NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, erstwhile First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, and erstwhile Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks.