New York – The NYPD has put on modified assignment and transferred four top officials in connection with an investigation into whether officers accepted free trips and other perks from Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish communities.
The head of an Upper East Side police precinct with close ties to the Jewish community was stripped of his badge and gun this morning and placed on modified duty.
The current boss of the Upper East Side’s 19th Precinct accepted diamonds and cash from one of the businessmen at the center of a federal investigation.
He was once a rising star in the NYPD and a finalist to be Mayor de Blasio’s police commissioner.
On the Jewish holiday of Purim, ultra-Orthodox big shots in Brooklyn invite police officials over for holiday meals. Then, they share the pictures on social media in an implicit contest over who drew the highest-ranking officer.
The gifts were lavish — Super Bowl tickets and vacations to China and London. The favors were troubling using NYPD cops to provide security for private cash and jewelry deliveries and police escorts for funerals and airport trips to transfer bodies to Israel.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday that his department will “cooperate fully” with the FBI in its corruption probe into the NYPD which The Post exclusively reported on Tuesday.
The FBI is investigating suspected NYPD corruption focusing on the relationship between two politically connected businessmen and a slew of officers throughout the ranks, multiple sources told The Post on Monday.
An NYPD lieutenant who oversaw the arrest of a US postal worker this month has had his gun and badge taken as a result.
Former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly blamed Belgian authorities for failing to stop the Brussels terror attacks on Tuesday, which claimed four Americans among the 34 victims.