{"active":true,"first_name":"Joseph","last_name":"Morgante","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"MC/SQD","assignment_date":"2025-02-03","id":"142"},"shield_no":5020,"taxid":"953142","complaint_ids":[202002143,201901933,201807495,201807041,201804756],"command_history":[{"command":"GVSD Z1","id":"236"},{"command":"106 PCT","id":"106pct"}],"appt_date":"2012-07-11","middle_initial":"J","shield_no_history":[26895],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Butt, Areeb vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-03-12","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"703743/2021","court":"Supreme Court - Queens","summary":"On March 15th, 2020, Plaintiff Areeb Butt was lawfully at Apna Bazar Farmer's Market at 124-16 Liberty Avenue, Queens, NY when Defendants--NYPD Police Officers Nicholas Cupolo, Joseph Morgante, James Perino, John Toto, John Does-Police Officers as yet unidentified, and Police Sergeant Doheny--approached and assaulted Plaintiff by beating Plaintiff repeatedly and forcefully placing him in handcuffs. There was no indication that Plaintiff committed/was committing or that Defendants had any probable cause to arrest Plaintiff. Defendants then took Plaintiff to the NYPD 106th Police Precinct, where he was held for several hours until he was released later that day. Because of Plaintiff's arrest, Plaintiff suffered severe injuries throughout his body, pain, mental anguish, distress, mental shock,  psychological trauma, and other mental injuries.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=kFXzRvyXrSXte452yxuZDQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Hines, Thomas, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-06-26","disposition_date":"2025-06-10","payout_amount":45000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"708436/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Queens","officer_name":"Morgante, Joseph","summary":"On or about December 6, 2017, police officers Stephen Giustino, Joseph Morgante, John/Jane Doe 1-10 improperly arrested Thomas Hines and Jarrell Wynn based on improper biased based profiling. The officers approached Wynn and pointed guns at him when he was walking towards his vehicle. The officers then grabbed and slammed Wynn to the ground. Wynn was subject to tight handcuff, causing severe physical pain. The officers at no time had a justifiable cause of doing so. Wynn was not read his Miranda rights nor had access to his lawyer, but was subject to intense interrogations by the officers. Several hours later, on the same day, Hines was stopped, searched, grabbed and violently slammed against a wall by the officers near the 139-02 Lakewood Ave. of Queens even though the officers had no probable cause to do so. Hines was then subject to tight handcuff, causing him severe pain. Similar to Wynn, Hines too was not read out his Miranda rights. At no time did the officers have a warrant or a justifiable cause to arrest Hines. \n\nThe officers then fabricated evidence that Hines and Wynn possessed illegal drugs and fabricated a story regarding Wynn and Hines in order to further their own personal interest. During the interrogation of Wynn and Hines, the officers continuously threatened them with severe punishment unless they agree to the false evidence. Other officers, despite having the chance and duty to intervene, failed to do so. All charges against Hynes and Wynn were ultimately dismissed. As a result, Hines and Wynn suffered from physical injuries, permanent emotional distress including fear, embarrassment, humiliation, traumatization, frustration, extreme inconvenience, and anxiety.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=pMTHQKLKqDbztuwPnzp7OA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Starks, Deandre vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-08-28","disposition_date":"2020-11-05","payout_amount":2500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"19CV04658","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Morgante, Joseph","summary":"Early in the morning on August 17, 2018, Plaintiff was arrested in a violent, unreasonable, and excessive fashion. The three arresting officers, Michael Renna, Joseph Morgante, and Kaitlyn Bazarewski, repeatedly struck Plaintiff in the face and head with a walkie talkie after Plaintiff had surrendered to the arrest. Each of them failed to stop the others from pursuing the excessive force, which led to physical injuries, pain and suffering, scarring, lacerations, bruising swelling and cuts to left eye and forehead, blurred vision, extreme fear, and emotional trauma. The officers were motivated by racial animus and their desire to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate plaintiff because of his race.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.437360/gov.uscourts.nyed.437360.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16051963/starks-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21026743-morgante-7a25e16244b37bca87f1c8ba69b4bf24dd2164ff","type":"brady-giglio"}],"payroll":{"salary":"119980","regular":"115263","overtime":"36716","other":"16110","total":"168090"},"id":"9DQH","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/9DQH"}