Mayor Eric Adams is a “morally corrupt” leader who appointed a band of “clowns” to run his police department and should have no place in City Hall now or in the future, former top cop Tom Donlon fumed exclusively to The Post.

A judge upheld a temporary restraining order, keeping the officers on the job as the legal fight over their employment status grinds through the courts.

A hearing on the court order temporarily stopping the cops from being fired is scheduled in Manhattan Supreme Court this afternoon.

The former interim police commissioner has accused Mayor Eric Adams and his top cop cronies of running the NYPD as a “coordinated criminal conspiracy” to commit fraud to reward loyal lackeys and

More than two dozen NYPD officers may soon be out of a job because they were hired illegally, the department said Thursday.