Peter “PistolPete” Valentin has cost the City of New York $1.3M. He’s a cop.
The NYPD detective has been sued multiple times, the settlements now totaling the aforementioned $1.3M.
Reports the New York Daily News:
Since April, the city has quietly paid out $402,000 to settle six of the eight remaining lawsuits where oft-sued NYPD detective Peter Valentin is a named defendant.
That’s on top of the $884,000 the city had already paid out to plaintiffs who said they’d been preyed upon by the Bronx narcotics cop — bringing the grand total to $1.286 million.
“We evaluated the individual merits of each of these cases and it was determined that settlement was in the best interest of all parties,” said Law Department spokesman Nicholas Paolucci.
A Daily News investigation earlier this year revealed Valentin was the most-sued member of the 34,000-plus police force — he’d been sued a whopping 28 times since 2006, and he was hit with a 29th suit in June, court documents show.
The most recent case to settle was Richard Velez and Jessica Cruz’s 2011 lawsuit, which alleged Valentin, 36, and members of his Bronx narcotics team had illegally raided their apartment not once, but twice that same year.
Valentin is currently on modified duty for conducting “dubious raids” and his time in the field has been marred with struggle.
Besides raids that concluded with no charges being made, a woman spent a week in Rikers after Valentin claimed he found cocaine in her home. In actuality, the drugs in question were crushed egg shells.
Most people that cost their employers that much money are usually fired, no?
[Spotted at Animal New York]
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