from www.nydailynews.com – A kinky ex-cop who bought porn and blowup dolls for his ex-girlfriend with her credit card can’t have his job back, a Manhattan judge has ruled.
Mario Buonviaggio had filed suit to challenge his January dismissal, which followed his guilty plea last year at an NYPD trial where he admitted to a series of raunchy stunts.
The 19-year veteran contended that he had been left without health insurance as he faced spinal-fusion surgery to treat a line-of-duty injury.
The former narcotics detective was arrested in 2005 for yanking his cop girlfriend’s hair and spitting in her face.
He was later accused of using Sgt. Joanne Guidice’s credit card to order $400 of pay-per-view events, and to send her unwanted merchandise, including breast-enlargement devices and a blowup doll.
“Given the seriousness of the conduct alleged and admitted to by {Buonviaggio], the court does not find the penalty of dismissal to be shocking to one’s sense of fairness and thus the Police Commissioner’s determination must stand,” Supreme Court Justice Eileen Rakower wrote.
Buonviaggio, 42, admitted to using Guidice’s checking account and credit card to mail her filthy packages. His lawyer previously described his antics as “sophomoric stuff.”
from www.nypost.com – Bon voyage — the NYPD can ship out perv sergeant Mario Buonviaggio for roughing up his police sergeant girlfriend and then tormenting her with porn and sex toys.
Buonviaggio, 42, had sued the city earlier this year seeking to get his job back, contending he hadn’t been in his right mind at the time of the incidents, and that it was unfair to can him just a year before he’d qualify for his 20 year pension.
In a ruling made public, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Eileen Rakower disagreed.
“[G]iven the seriousness of the conduct alleged and admitted to by [Buonviaggio], the court does not find the penalty of dismissal to be shocking to one’s sense of fairness,” Rakower ruled.
Buonviaggio had pleaded guilty in a departmental trial to shoving Sgt. Joanne Guidice, pulling her by her hair, spitting in her face, and forging her checks to have porn, lingerie and a blow up doll delivered to her home.
He’d asked the NYPD for a lesser penalty, noting the “good works” he’d performed both as a police officer and a private citizen, and contending his judgment had been “clouded” from the pain he’d suffered in line-of-duty injuries. The NYPD countered that he’d offered no medical evidence that the painkillers he was taking might have contributed to his behavior.
He was let go in January.
Buonviaggio told The Post earlier this year he was still in disbelief about getting the ax.
“What happened is ridiculous. I worked hard for the city, and they fired me for nothing,” he said.