A New York City man who was accused by city prosecutors of posing as an immigration attorney and fraudulently raking in legal fees pled guilty to a misdemeanor count of petit larceny and was sentenced to time served.
Paul Zangrilli, 44, then an NYPD deputy inspector, allegedly let his girlfriend, Nikole Rupple, 35, drive his unmarked police car after they had been drinking for hours, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The former commander of Manhattan’s 5th Precinct found himself on the wrong end of a grand jury indictment this week for allegedly covering up his then-girlfriend’s drunk driving after a collision in 2022, prosecutors announced Thursday.
The girlfriend of a deputy inspector with the New York Police Department drunkenly rear-ended a cab while the pair drove in the officer’s police car near Penn Station, Manhattan prosecutors say. Then, according to an indictment, the couple fled, switched places so the inspector was behind the wheel, offered the cabdriver money and lied to a police captain who had been called to the scene.
An NYPD inspector let his girlfriend get behind the wheel of his unmarked police SUV after a night out drinking – and then scrambled to cover up evidence that she got into a crash, prosecutors charged Thursday.
