Co-worker’s tryst lies ruined my life: suit

A BROOKLYN prosecutor’s promising career tanked once a paranoid colleague implicated her in a bogus legal love triangle with an NYPD detective, a new lawsuit charged.

Attorney Stephanie Rosenfeld was forced to quit the job she loved after becoming a target of ridicule and scorn around the district attorney’s office, according to the suit filed Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court.

The prosecutor’s downward spiral began after former assistant district attorney Tara Lenich’s counterfeit charge of an affair between her then-boyfriend Jarrett Lemieux and Rosenfeld.

Rosenfeld “endured months of humiliating looks and behind-the-back comments from supervisors and colleagues at the Kings County DA, defense attorneys in the courthouse, and even judges and court staff,” her suit charged.

“Ultimately, she could no longer endure the humiliation and was forced to resign as an assistant district attorney.”

Rosenfeld, 37, remains unemployed since leaving the office this past May and struggles with diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the suit.

A lawyer for Lenich, once a deputy in the DA’s violent criminal enterprise bureau, declined comment on the allegations.

Lenich pleaded guilty to federal charges in April 2017 for using forged court documents needed to bug the phones of Rosenfeld and Lemieux.

Rosenfeld had no relationship with Lemieux, 46, other than the one manufactured by the disturbed Lenich. The prosecutor was arrested inside her office in November 2016.

Lenich used judges’ signatures clipped from legitimate paperwork, taping the scrawls onto blank forms and then submitting