A city Department of Probation investigator was sacked for blowing the whistle on an alleged tryst between Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the agency and a top attorney working for her, a new lawsuit claims.
Ebony Huntley, a retired NYPD lieutenant, said she was fired the day after she reached out to the city Department of Investigation with her concerns about the agency’s leadership under new Probation Commissioner Sharun Goodwin, appointed by Mamdani in late January.
That list included the incendiary claim Goodwin had a “prior intimate relationship” with General Counsel Wayne McKenzie, whom the new commish re-hired after she was appointed by Mamdani in late January, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday.
Huntley’s bombshell lawsuit, first reported by Politico, claims she was retaliated against for being a whistleblower, getting fired from her $170,000-a-year gig as a chief investigator for the department.
She also claims the city owes her $200,000 in unpaid wages during her short stint with the agency.