City settles case vs. vengeful DA

The city has agreed to shell out millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit against a disgraced Brooklyn prosecutor who illegally wiretapped her NYPD cop ex-boyfriend and a fellow prosecutor, the Daily News has learned.

The city is in preliminary agreement to pay $950,000 to Detective Jarret Lemieux and $1.4 million to Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Rosenfeld, who were both targeted by ex-ADA

Tara Lenich (inset).

In a separate class-action lawsuit against Lenich and the Brooklyn DA’s Office, $3.2 million will go to 350 plaintiffs who argued their privacy was invaded in the scheme.

“This individual clearly abused the authority entrusted to her as a prosecutor. She illegally used her tools and training for personal gain instead of furthering the interests of the public, and cleverly concealed her scheme,” said Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesman for the city Law Department.

Lenich, 44, thought Lemieux and Rosenfeld were dating and spent 18 months forging court orders so she could monitor calls and texts from them. She pleaded guilty in April 2017 to illegally intercepting oral and electronic communications and was sentenced to a year in jail.

Lenich was also fired from the Brooklyn DA’s office, where she oversaw the Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau.

She wept in court at the time, saying she was in “a completely destructive” place at the time of the wiretaps.

DA Rosenfeld said the case caused her so much anguish that she had to resign from the office. Her lawyer claimed she had no relationship with Lemieux, and any talk of a love triangle was nothing but “outrageous allegations and scuttlebutt.”