{"id":192533,"date":"2026-04-10T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:43:12","slug":"nyc-probation-staffer-was-sacked-for-blowing-whistle-on-alleged-tryst-between-mamdani-appointee-and-top-aide-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192533\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC probation staffer was sacked for blowing whistle on alleged tryst between Mamdani appointee and top aide: suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A city Department of Probation investigator was canned for blowing the whistle on an alleged tryst between Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s pick to lead the agency and a top attorney working for her, a new lawsuit claims.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s leadership under new Probation Commissioner Sharun Goodwin, appointed by Mamdani in late January.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani commemorates 100 days in office. William Farrington\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Sharun Goodwin is Mamdani\u2019s commissioner of the Department of Probation. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

That list included the incendiary claim that Goodwin had a \u201cprior intimate relationship\u201d with general counsel Wayne McKenzie, whom the new commish rehired after she was appointed by Mamdani, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday.<\/p>\n

Huntley\u2019s bombshell lawsuit, first reported by Politico<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Department of Probation general counsel Wayne McKenzie. Manhattan District Attorney’s Office<\/p>\n

She also claims the city owes her $200,000 in unpaid wages during her short stint with the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city Department of Probation investigator was canned for blowing the whistle on an alleged tryst between Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35398,57,9,24,55,54,56,103,58,82],"class_list":["post-192533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-firing","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nypd","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}