New York Daily News

Sticky fingers

Hooker witness in bribe trial a thief

- BY STEPHEN REX BROWN

The prostitute who accompanie­d a high-ranking cop and a police buff on a raunchy flight to Las Vegas was also a serial shoplifter, prosecutor­s revealed.

Gabi Grecko posed as a flight attendant on the private flight to Sin City on Super Bowl weekend in 2013 with NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant, Brooklyn businessma­n Jeremy Reichberg and others.

The wild weekend features prominentl­y in the government’s case against the two men accused of abusing Grant’s authority to boost Reichberg’s status as a big shot in his community.

Grecko is expected to testify about the lurid episode. In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Tuesday, prosecutor­s asked a judge to forbid defense attorneys to ask Grecko about her “prior shopliftin­g conduct,” referring to her only as “Prostitute 1.”

Grecko, who is now married to an Australian millionair­e, was arrested twice for shopliftin­g and her record does not indicate she was convicted either time, according to the letter.

“Prostitute-1’s prior shopliftin­g conduct is not an appropriat­e topic of cross-examinatio­n as it does not bear on her truthfulne­ss as a witness,” Bell wrote.

On the opening day of trial, both Grant and Reichberg’s attorneys went to great lengths to distance their clients from Grecko. Grant denies having slept with Grecko during the steamy Super Bowl celebratio­n.

Bell said Grecko’s other conduct were fair game.

Meanwhile, testimony in the trial revealed Reichberg marketed his access to the NYPD.

General contractor Boaz Gazit testified Reichberg said he could get a friend of Gazit out of jail — for the right price.

“He said it’s going to cost him $2,500 and I can get him (out) in two hours,” Gazit recalled of the conversati­on with Reichberg in January 2015.

Reichberg boasted he sprung the man when he was busted for driving with a suspended license.

Separately, Gazit said he installed $5,300 worth of windows at Grant’s Staten Island home in 2013 at Reichberg’s request.

Gazit said he’d done the job without demanding a deposit as he normally would. Both Grant and Reichberg never fully paid for the windows, he said.

“My friend told me he’s connected. I know he knows some police,” Gazit said.

“I trusted him.”

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