Case Name: In the Matter of Anthony Saccone, Petitioner, v. Raymond W. Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2004-04-27
Citations: 6 A.D.3d 339
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Anthony Saccone, Petitioner, v Raymond W. Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 339–340

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Anthony Saccone, Petitioner, v Raymond W. Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
[775 NYS2d 149]

Opinion:
Determination of respondent Police Commissioner, dated May 27, 2002, dismissing petitioner from his position as a police officer, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [James A. Yates, J.], entered on or about February 25, 2003) dismissed, without costs.
Substantial evidence supports respondent's findings that petitioner, while off duty, was present at a place known to be a brothel, that three days later, while on duty, petitioner solicited sex from prostitutes at that brothel in exchange for a promise of protection against arrest, and that in his official interview, petitioner falsely stated that his off-duty visit to the brothel was in an attempt to sign up a confidential informant. No basis exists to disturb the Hearing Officer's findings of credibility (see Matter of Berenhaus v Ward, 70 NY2d 436, 443-444 [1987]). The penalty of dismissal does not shock our sense of fairness (see Matter of Hogan v Kelly, 4 AD3d 304 [2004]). Concur—Nardelli, J.P., Saxe, Sullivan and Gonzalez, JJ.