A former New York City cop begins a year-long prison sentence today after a criminal court judge blasted him this morning for repeatedly lying to jurors about the night he spent with a naked, intoxicated young woman in the bedroom of her apartment.
- "You've ripped a hole in that fabric of our society," Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Gregory Carro said at the sentencing hearing.
- "You wanted to get into the apartment so badly that you committed a crime to do so"
- "By your own admission, being in bed with a vulnerable, intoxicated young female," "You're a trained police officer."
- "We want her drunk enough that she had a faulty memory," "So you came up with this story. She was a lonely soul that needed comfort."
- "You told a story that was incredible: Admitting what you couldn't deny; denying what you couldn't admit," the judge said. "You had a duty to testify truthfully, and it's clear that you didn't."
- "'Simpleton,' like a fox," "interwove the witness's memories with your own explanation of what those memories meant."
