New York Daily News

Feds: Let hooker tell all on cop

- BY LARRY McSHANE

KABATCELA;SUBRAHDRAH­CIR HE GOT off on skirting the law — whether he paid for the sex or not.

NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant can’t block a high-flying hooker from testifying at his corruption trial just because he paid the tab for her services, federal prosecutor­s argued in court papers.

The payoff for Grant was not the sex, but the “particular­ly unusual and rare” opportunit­y to indulge without risk in erotic midair antics aboard a private jet, prosecutor­s said. “Gaining access to a prostitute at all would presumably be difficult for a person with heightened obligation­s to follow the laws,” prosecutor­s argued in the Manhattan Federal Court

“That access could reasonably have been something on which Grant placed value even if he ultimately paid (her).”

Defense attorneys argued the jury in the NYPD corruption case will hear that Grant (bottom inset) paid $1,500 cash to prostitute Gabi Grecko (top inset), meaning she was not part of the alleged quid pro quo involving the inspector’s February 2013 wild weekend. Grant’s lawyers want to block Grecko from recounting the seamy details of the flight on which Grant, co-defendant Jeremy Reichberg and three other passengers had milehigh sex with the hooker.

Reichberg, a major donor to Mayor de Blasio, stands accused of lavishing gifts on Grant in return for favors that included arranging police escorts and gun permits.

The prostitute’s proposed court appearance was intended to make Grant look bad in front of the jurors, his lawyer John Meringolo argued in court documents.

Prosecutor­s disagreed, arguing that Grecko — regardless of her inflight services — should be permitted to recount the full gamut of the weekend’s all-expenses-paid festivitie­s.

Those included the private jet and a posh suite in a luxury hotel.

The would-be witness’ account “is relevant and highly probative . . . and thus admissible,” the prosecutio­n argued. “The evidence regarding (Grecko), even if salacious, is not unduly prejudicia­l.” papers.

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