New York Post

Excessive expletives haunt Dietl

- Natalie O’Neill

He can’t stop f--king cussing! Local firebrand Bo Dietl — who vowed not to curse after being dropped from Mayor Adams’ legal defense trust for telling a reporter to “suck somebody’s d--k” — slammed the controvers­y as “political bulls--t” to The Post on Thursday before catching his own potty mouth.

“As far as this political bulls--t — I shouldn’t curse — as far as this political nonsense goes, it’s such a nothing issue compared to crime in this city,” the NYPD detective-turned-private investigat­or said in a phone interview.

“When you have people punching young women in the face, there are more important problems,” he said, referencin­g a recent crime spree.

During the brief conversati­on, Dietl cursed twice while offering an excuse for telling a Politico reporter to “Go suck somebody’s d--k” and snapping that, “I wouldn’t f--king tell you any f-king thing” at a Daily News scribe earlier this week.

Dietl said he berated the reporters with vulgar language because two of his friends had recently died and he was having a hard time.

“I lost two close friends in the last couple days. I was wrong, and I apologized to the reporters. I said, ‘I was under a lot of stress,’ ” he told The Post. “I was in a very bad place.”

The reporters had called to ask him about a $13,000 payment that Adams’ legal defense trust had sent to Dietl’s private detective firm when he began ranting at them.

Dietl was fired Wednesday over the curse-filled tirade because “the mayor believes that that language is unacceptab­le,” Vito Pitta, an attorney for Adams’ trust, told the Daily News.

Dietl then pledged not to “curse anymore,” telling the paper he “went to my priest today and did an act of contrition.”

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