FBI probe finds NYPD cops got Super Bowl tickets, lavish trips

The New York Post reports:

The gifts were lavish — Super Bowl tickets and vacations to China and London.

The favors were troubling — using NYPD cops to provide security for private cash and jewelry deliveries and police escorts for funerals and airport trips to transfer bodies to Israel.

New details emerged Tuesday in the FBI’s corruption investigation into the Police Department, including how deep-pocketed businessmen who were the original targets of the probe sought out high-ranking members they knew could “get things done for them,” sources told The Post.


“They don’t go to police officers or detectives. They’re too far down the food chain,’’ a law-enforcement source said of the politically connected businessmen.

“They go straight to the top: the [commanding officer], lieutenants and other top officials at the precinct,” the source added. “They get things done for them. All they need to do is make a call.”

The self-interest of government workers.