Mayor Bill de Blasio crony Jona Rechnitz revealed in court Friday that he treated his NYPD pals to an all-expenses-paid trip to Miami to catch a college football championship game — complete with prostitutes as “entertainment.”
Rechnitz said he took then-NYPD Deputy Chiefs James McCarthy and Andrew Capul and now-retired cops Eddie Gardner and Stephen McAllister, who is now the police commissioner in Floral Park, LI, on the jaunt to the BCS National Championship game in 2013. It was the first time the alleged trip has come to light.
The deep-pocketed real estate investor paid for travel, “a suite to watch the game, food, everything,” he told jurors in Manhattan federal court.
“Did you pay for entertainment?” prosecutor Martin Bell asked.
“Yes,” said Rechnitz, who is cooperating with feds in a bid for leniency.
“What was the nature of the entertainment?” Bell continued.
“Prostitutes,” Rechnitz responded.
The 34-year-old de Blasio donor-turned-felon was testifying in the ongoing trial for Norman Seabrook, the once-powerful head of the New York City corrections officers union.
Rechnitz has testified that he helped hedge fund pal Murray Huberfeld bribe Seabrook in exchange for the union investing in the failed fund.
