Former NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Harrington is expected to plead guilty in a wide-ranging corruption probe involving other officers of the department, a new report revealed.
Harrington will appear in Manhattan federal court Thursday to answer to the charges against him, according to the New York Post.
Harrington and former Deputy Inspector James Grant were charged in 2016 after they were accused of accepting prostitutes bought by businessmen, as well as jewelry and gifts, in exchange for police protection.
Harrington is now facing up to 10 years in prison.
Former New York Police Department Deputy Chief Michael Harrington is set to plead guilty Thursday in a in a wide-ranging corruption probe against officers of the department (Harrington is shown departing Federal Court in Manhattan after a hearing on June 20, 2016)
Harrington and former Deputy Inspector James Grant were charged in 2016 (Grant is also shown departing the 2016 court hearing)
Harrington and Grant are set for trial on April 30, the Post reported. The former high-ranking cops will be joined by co-defendant and businessman, Jeremy Reichberg.
Former reality TV star and prostitute Gabi Grecko had been previously identified as a woman used to bribe the policemen.
Grecko revealed details about a wild, sex-filled private plane trip to Las Vegas in February 2013 while speaking with the local newspaper in June 2016.
The busty blonde said she had been recruited by New York businessman and Bill de Blasio campaign donor, Reichberg, to perform sexual favors for the men.
The ex-officer is now facing up to 10 years in prison for the charges
Grant and businessman Jeremy Reichberg will join Harrington for trial in April
Former prostitute Gabi Grecko (pictured on Twitter) previously spoke about her time with some of the cops
The prostitute at the time said she serviced Grant and ex-detective Michael Milici on the jet.
‘I was doing it while they were in their seats,’ Grecko revealed in the interview.
‘It was me on top the whole time… front, behind, side. They all seemed really comfortable to take their pants off in front of each other and laugh about it. It’s like they’d done this before.’
Oral and group sex also occurred on the jet, while Grecko said she had no idea the men were cops at the time, although they took out their handcuffs to use on her.
‘I didn’t think they were real,’ she said. ‘They were just waving them around, like to put them on me. I was like, “No way’,” she said.
Businessman Jeremy Reichberg bought the prostitute as part of a bribe for official favors