POLICEMAN ‘PIMP’
Cop charged with having hooker stable
A Brooklyn cop moonlighted as a pimp with a stable of 11 hookers — sometimes heading straight from work at his NYPD station house to his seedy side gig, authorities said Tuesday.
Eduardo Cornejo, an Army vet whose wife is an NYPD sergeant, used his personal car to ferry the prostitutes to hotsheet motels around the area — charging johns $100 for 15 minutes and $150 for 30 minutes, officials said.
The rogue cop was well aware of the risks he was taking, according to a wire tap made while Cornejo was talking with several women in a car on Jan. 21.
“That might make it hot though, standing outside with a bunch of girls . . . [The cops] are going to know what’s up real quick,” he allegedly warned them.
Cornejo, 33, was fired as a cop after 11 years last month after failing a drug test — and busted for prostitution Tuesday at the Nissan dealership where he had just taken a job.
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau and the FBI were first alerted to his alleged shenanigans after getting a tip last spring that he was pimping out a woman.
In July, undercover officers saw Cornejo bringing young women from Long Island to New Jersey motels and actively negotiating with customers, according to Brook lyn federalcourt documents.
Sources said Cornejo worked in the 67th Precinct before being transferred to the 79th Precinct around 2012. He was transferred after getting into a dustup over changing seats with a Citi Field security guard during a Mets game.
Last October, cops stopped Cornejo in his personal car for erratic driving after seeing him pimping women at a motel in East Meadow, LI, officials said.
“During the car stop, members of law enforcement observed female attire, including thong underwear, inside the Cornejo vehicle,” papers state.
A judge authorized agents to install a bug in Cornejo’s car last month, and he was caught on tape explicitly discussing prostitution activity, the complaint states.
He was arraigned and held without bail Tuesday. His estranged wife, Kema Cornejo, was in court, but declined to comment.
His brother told The Post Cornejo was being framed.
“He’s always been a good guy . . . I don’t know where all of this stuff came from,’’ said the sibling, who declined to be named.
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram, Larry Celona and Gabrielle Fonrouge