One Police Plaza or Peyton Place? More details of NYPD sex scandal emerge

John Marzulli New York Daily News 07/26/2010 20:15

Valentim Neves had 'well in excess of 100' hookups with his married subordinate officer, according to an IAB probe.

One Police Plaza is turning into Peyton Place. More sordid secrets emerged Monday about forbidden affairs between the top cops and the women they supervise.

In the latest installment, a deputy inspector featured on Monday's page one of The Daily News is now wagging his finger at his former boss.

Valentim Neves' lawyer is dishing that Assistant Chief Gerald Nelson was less than truthful when he, too, was questioned about his dalliances with a School Safety Division underling.

"This case is really about an assistant chief [Nelson] who is having a personal relationship and giving that officer favors, giving that officer's friends favors," Neves' lawyer Edgar DeLeon said in Brooklyn Federal Court.

"Chiefs have a lot of power in the Police Department. That doesn't mean everything they do is right," DeLeon said.

Both men are being dragged down into the mud by an explosive lawsuit that alleges that the bosses at the NYPD's School Safety Division are treating the women they're not dating unfairly.

It was Neves' lie to lawyers in that suit, filed by Officer Robin Marable, that got him in hot water in the first place.

After a fight, his wife, a retired cop, turned him in to the Internal Affairs Bureau, which launched a year-long probe that found he hooked up with his married lover, Officer Mareli Hnatko, more than a hundred times. She and Neves are facing dismissal for fraternization and false statements.