{"active":true,"first_name":"Chris","last_name":"Morello","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DC","command":{"command":"POL ACD","assignment_date":"2025-08-25","id":"310"},"taxid":"923414","complaint_ids":[201012593,200906576],"command_history":[{"command":"INS TRN","id":"844"},{"command":"IAB","id":"IAB"},{"command":"PBQN","id":"PBQN"},{"command":"NARCBQN","id":"177"},{"command":"PSA 5","id":"PSA5"}],"appt_date":"1994-02-28","age":54,"middle_initial":"D","shield_no_history":[8952,1443],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Elleby, Taye vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-04-15","disposition_date":"2016-08-11","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"15CV00109","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Morello, Christopher","summary":"On May 9, 2015, Plaintiff was at his home when Officers M. Prior and Sgt. Ortiz of NYPD arrived and placed him in handcuffs. The officers had been responding to a tip from a woman in Connecticut alleging that plaintiff was holding several girls hostage and forcing them into sex work against their will. While handcuffed, officers asked plaintiff if the allegations were true and he denied them. He was cuffed and held for two hours with his chest to a fence while officers questioned the alleged victims, who also denied the allegations. He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal trespass. He was detained for over 72 hours in booking. Plaintiff was indicted and stood trial, where he was convicted. Plaintiff alleges that the ADAs Caruso, Carty, and Derose conspired to obtain an indictment without a complaining witness and that police officers coerced the witnesses into testifying falsely at trial.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.436897/gov.uscourts.nysd.436897.43.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5579495/elleby-v-prior/"},{"name":"Colon, Jonathan vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-08-18","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"157980/2014","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Morello, Christopher","summary":"On or about September 8, 2013 POs John Does wrongfully touched, grabbed, handcuffed and seized Plaintiffs in an excessive manner without legal justification. Plaintiffs were arrested and falsely accused of, inter alia, resisting arrest. The accusations were non-processed while Plaintiffs were in custody. Plaintiffs suffered great physical and mental pain and anguish, indignity, humiliation, ridicule, reputational damages, shame, and derogation as a result of this incident.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=RWpPK7UUkV9atd9S7_PLUS_Fg3g==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Harris v. The City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","disposition":"Settlement","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923736-Harris-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923737-Harris-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"13CV07790","officer_name":"Chris D. Morello"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/ENMT-chris-morello.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"227306","regular":"224595","overtime":"7675","other":"29163","total":"261433"},"socials":[{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-morello-0a239474","type":"linkedin"}],"news":[{"url":"https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/jessica-tisch-ousts-dozens-of-nypd-bosses-in-shocking-purge/","title":"Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch ousts dozens of NYPD bosses in shocking purge — one week after sex scandal that rocked department","source":"New York Post","date":"2024-12-28"}],"id":"ENMT","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/ENMT"}