New charges in ex-cop’s mad hit case
The NYPD officer accused of plotting to kill her estranged husband as well as her new lover’s daughter in a bizarre hitman-forhire scheme pleaded guilty on Friday to obstruction of justice charges in the twisted case.
Valerie Cincinelli, 36, who had been charged with murder-forhire, now faces up to 63 months in prison after admitting to deleting messages related to the plot, said U.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
The ex-cop (photo) has been behind bars since her arrest in 2019, when authorities first brought her crazy plan to light. She resigned from the NYPD in disgrace last month.
“For two years I haven’t seen my son,” she said in federal court, weeping after pleading guilty.
Cincinelli was accused of hatching the scheme with boyfriend John DiRubba to hire a killer to whack her husband, Isaiah Carvalho. The plot took an even darker turn when Cincinelli then tried to convince DiRubba to have the hitman take out his own teenage daughter, federal authorities said.
But unbeknownst to Cincinelli, DiRubba tipped off law enforcement to her plans, along with incriminating text messages she had written. DiRubba played along with Cincinelli, letting her believe he’d hired an assassin for $7,000 who would perform both hits.
DiRubba at one point told Cincinelli the killer did not want to rub out DiRubba’s daughter near her school, according to the charges against her.
“Run her the f--- over. How about that?” Cincinelli responded, according to the feds.
The feds got the Nassau County Police Department to show up at Cincinelli’s door in May 2019 — three months into her scheme — to say her husband had been murdered.
Cincinelli began discussing with DiRubba what her alibi would be if she was questioned about his death, and DiRubba recorded it all, the feds said.
An FBI agent even posed as the hitman and sent DiRubba a photo that appeared to show Carvalho’s dead body in his car. But it was all a ruse, as the former cop found out when she was arrested and held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.