‘Flip’ for this $1M mansion
9/11 scam cop’s luxe home
SAYING HE WAS crazy really paid off for the bird-flipping poster boy of New York’s 9/11 disability disgrace.
Glenn Lieberman, who prosecutors said illegally collected more than $175,000 in Social Security disability payments since 2009 by claiming he was too wigged out to work as a city cop, rents a $1.5 million waterfront mansion in an exclusive Florida gated community.
Not only does Lieberman’s crib have an in-ground g p pool in the backyard backyard, it also has a dock where he moors one of his two Jet Skis, a neighbor said.
Lieberman became infamous after prosecutors released a photo of him riding one of the Jet Skis and extending his middle fingers.
Now Lieberman is expected to face the music Thursday morning when he turns himself in to the Manhattan district attorney’s office to face a fraud charge that could send him to prison for up to 15 years.
But his lawyer, Gerald McMahon, dismissed the bird-flipping photo.
“The infamous Jet Ski and the double Italian digits was seven years ago in the Mediterranean, long before (Lieberman) ever applied for any disability,” he said.
Lieberman, 44, has become the talk of his highfalutin’ ’hood in Palm Beach Gardens, where he lives with wife Mirla Sanchez and their two young kids.
“When he told me he was a retired police officer and I saw how he was living, I told my husband that something didn’t add up,” said Cheryl Weinstock, from Brooklyn.
Lieberman and 81 other excops, firefighters and corrections officers allegedly soaked taxpayers for $21.3 million by lying that they had stress-related injuries.
Some of them, prosecutors said, used claims of being traumatized by the 2001 terror attacks to land the disability payouts.
The shock waves from the arrests were felt across New York.
In Oakwood Beach, Staten Island, , a neighbor g of 43-year-old y ex- cop Vincent Lamantia’s was stunned after learning he was accused of illegally collecting more than $148,000 in disability.
“He’s a good neighbor, he’s a good guy, he has four young boys,” said 72-year-old Lorraine Kendell.
The former cop who got the most money was identified in court papers as Francis Palmeri, 53, of Wantagh, L.I. From March 1997 through June 2013, he collected a whopping $451,684.70, the papers show.
The scammers were coached to act dysfunctional and steered to shady doctors who helped greenlight disability payments of up to $50,000 a year, the 205-count indictment charges.
Four ringleaders — Raymond Lavallee, Thomas Hale, Joseph Esposito and John Minerva — got a cut of that action, officials said.