Detective in carjacking perjury rap
A DETECTIVE busted for giving false testimony in a carjacking arrest has joined a rogues gallery of NYPD cops caught lying in court or in cases, officials said Saturday.
Detective Michael Foder’s arraignment in Brooklyn Federal Court last Tuesday came just a few days before NYPD Police Commissioner James O’Neill said in an Op-Ed that 87 cops and 11 NYPD employees have either been fired or have quit the department after making perjured statements since 2010.
The number of perjured cops is a “dramatic revelation,” according to Christopher Dunn, associate legal director for the New York Civil Liberties Union.
“The public needs to hear much more about these cases,” Dunn said Saturday. “This new disclosure perfectly illustrates why we must end the secrecy in New York that conceals police disciplinary practices from public view.”
Foder was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.
Prosecutors said he falsely testified under oath about showing the robbery victim mugshots of two suspects in December 2016.
Foder said he showed the victim a photo array that included pictures of the suspects. But prosecutors said he lied about when he did so.
Prosecutors also proved that he couldn’t have shown the victim the “filler” photos in the array since they were taken after the ID was allegedly made.
Foder (photo) was released on $25,000 bail.
In January, a Queens jury convicted NYPD Detective Kevin Desormeau of perjury and making false statements after he arrested a 48-year-old man on drug charges in 2014.
Desormeau said he arrested Roosevelt McCoy after spotting him dealing crack in Jamaica, Queens, but the case collapsed in March 2016 after the suspect’s relative found surveillance video that showed McCoy playing pool at the time he was allegedly selling dope.
McCoy spent 52 days in Rikers Island before Desormeau’s lies were revealed.
Besides the 87 cops who were drummed out of the department over perjury allegations, twice as many officers faced lesser penalties for false statements in roughly the same time period, Larry Byrne, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs, told the New York Times in October.