Ex-NYPD Cop Sues City After Being allegedly Fired Over Friendship with Trump Advisor

An Ex-NYPD Cop, Sal Greco, is part of an ongoing lawsuit over his alleged firing due to a friendship with President Trump’s adviser Roger Stone.

Greco believes that he was wrongfully relieved from his job due to his friendship and support for President Trump.

The lawsuit initially included an alleged violation of Greco’s freedom of speech, but the judge stuck that down Tuesday.

Despite this, the judge is moving forward with the case regarding Sal Greco’s wrongful termination.

Let’s take a look at what the folks at Fox News have to say:

A former NYPD officer alleging that he was wrongfully terminated due to his friendship with former President Trump’s one-time adviser Roger Stone is pushing forward with his federal lawsuit despite a judge dismissing some aspects of the cased related to First Amendment protections. 

Sal Greco alleges that then-NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, Deputy Commissioner Legal Matter Ernest Hart, Commanding Officer of the Internal Affairs Bureau Group Daniel Cutter and Internal Affairs Group Sergeant Jeremy Orenstein “collectively investigated and terminated him due to his personal ‘familial’ and ‘political’ relationships” with Stone, Kristin Davis, members of the OATH Keepers and Proud Boys and “others who support Trump’s America and the political paradigm of Making American Great Again[.]” 

The lawsuit, filed in August 2022, makes allegations including that the defendants violated his First Amendment rights of free speech and association.

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In a new order Tuesday, Brooklyn Senior U.S. District Judge Frederic Block said the defendants’ motion to dismiss was granted in part and denied in part, ruling that Greco’s First Amendment “intimate association claim” and his New York Labor Law claim related to alleged discrimination on the basis of political activities undertaken outside an employee’s working hours were dismissed. 

And furthermore:

However, the judge also wrote that Greco has a valid expressive association claim and that “qualified immunity is inappropriate at this stage.” Block allowed the claim that Sewell, Hart, Cutter and Orenstein could have retaliated against Greco for his political support of Stone. 

The lawsuit goes after each defendant individually and in their official capacities as employees of the NYPD. 

“I am pleased by the court’s decision to allow this case to move forward and prove that the defendants terminated me not only because of my friendship with Roger Stone, but my support for President Donald Trump. I look forward to my day in court,” Greco told the New York Daily News, adding that he was fired following a “14-year unblemished record of service.”

“The main argument is preserved and going forward,” Greco’s lawyer Eric Sanders added, saying he “looks forward to discovering further evidence to prove these defendants retaliated against Mr. Greco because of his support of the MAGA Movement coined by President Donald J. Trump.”

Here is to praying that Greco gets the justice he deserves.

It, unfortunately, happens too often that these Democrats punish true American patriots for supporting President Trump.

One year ago today, I was terminated by the @NYPDnews for being a friend of @RogerJStoneJr and a supporter of @realDonaldTrump Today the judge presiding over the case that it will proceed forward. See you in court @NYCMayor Eric Adams. https://t.co/2ZpGy4GCJS

— TheSalGreco (@TheSalGreco) August 8, 2023

SAL GRECO DID NOTHING WRONG #TheFinestUnfiltered pic.twitter.com/tu8aeNRvIW

— John D. Macari Jr. 🗽 (@JohnDMacari) March 24, 2023

New York Daily News has some more on the story:

Greco sued in August 2022 after then-commissioner Sewell signed off on his termination. The suit alleges that by firing him, NYPD officials infringed on his First Amendment right to free personal and political associations. 

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Greco insisted publicly and during his departmental trial that he and Stone are friends, and therefore he had no reason not to associate with him.

 

He also alleged Internal Affairs Bureau investigators went to extraordinary lengths in their investigation, including trailing him to visit his ailing father and using “illegal” subpoenas to get his phone records.

 

But in this case, the NYPD hewed to the letter of the Patrol Guide, which bars cops from associating with people who have engaged in criminal activity, including convicted felons. The prohibition, the department argued, extended even though Trump pardoned Stone in 2020.

 

The department also alleged he was working as unofficial security for Stone in Washington, D.C. during the Jan. 6 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Greco and Stone have said they didn’t leave their hotel during the unrest.

The people need to wake up to the facts.

The fact that these influential figures seek to punish the righteous.

Those who stand up to their wrongdoings and support someone who does good, like President Trump.

Sal Greco is a great guy, and the NYPD let go of some real talent.

He’s over at Twitter now and continues to fight the good fight.

New York City is being run by the swagger mayor and “ Joe Biden Of Brooklyn “ @NYCMayor Eric Adams, who has let alot of chaos engulf his administration, inner circle, and the @NYPDnews #GetStuffDone https://t.co/5sE7xyDioc #JoeHoft via @JoeHoft

— TheSalGreco (@TheSalGreco) August 5, 2023

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