Named in 3 known lawsuits, $62,500 total settlements.
Cordova, Erik vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 17CV02349,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, April 4, 2017, ended October 24, 2017
$35,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Police officers entered unlawfully into plaintiff's bedroom and had to undergo a cavity search. Plaintiff was then arrested, handcuffed, and charged with crim possession of a controlled substance in the 3rd deg, crim possession of a weapon in the 2nd deg, crim possession of a firearm, and crim using of drug paraphernalia in the 2nd deg.
Palermo, Hector vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV06370,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, August 26, 2015, ended March 23, 2016
$12,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Defendant Officers instructed Plaintiff to get against a wall in the lobby of a building, searched him, tightly handcuffed him, took him to the 41st Precinct (without seat belting him in the car), and charged him with Criminal Trespass in the Second Degree. Charge was eventually dismissed.
Boyd, Jasper vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 14CV06922,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, December 9, 2014, ended October 7, 2015
$15,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On November 29, 2011, at approximately 2:45 p.m., plaintiff had just left his Brooklyn apartment building and was on his way to pick up his 7-year-old son from school, when he was unlawfully stopped and questioned by defendant officers Wilson Gonzalez and Chaim Goldgrab. Despite lacking reasonable suspicion, the defendant officers detained plaintiff, frisked him, and issued him two summonses for disorderly conduct based on false allegations that he was being, inter alia, loud and boisterous. All charges against plaintiff were eventually dismissed on February 27, 2012.
