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Subscribe to RSSA former Nassau County, N.Y., cop who is accused of spending more than 50 nights in his mistress's bed when he was supposed to be on patrol was arrested Friday, the New York Post reported.
According to the newspaper, the charges against Michael Tedesco, 43, include 80 counts of official misconduct, 25 counts of falsifying business records, and four counts of tampering with business records.
“Ultimately, not every lapse in judgment amounts to a crime,” Tedesco's lawyer, Aida Leisenring, told the Post.
Tedesco, who is married with two children and an 18-year police veteran, retired from the force this past spring after his trysts became public. He is collecting a full state pension, the Post reported.
According to the New York Daily News, a police internal affairs investigation found that Tedesco visited the Massapequa home of his mistress, Tara Obenauer, at least 57 times while he was supposed to be on duty.
Obenauer, a 42-year-old divorcee, told the Post earlier this year that Tedesco would park his police car outside her home and spend nights there having sex, watching TV or sleeping. His gun belt would sometimes be left within the reach of Obenauer's kids, the Post reported.
The affair, which according to the Post report began in the summer of 2011, became public when one of Obenauer's neighbors complained to police about Tedesco's frequent visits.
Obenauer has filed a legal notice saying she plans to sue Nassau County for $10 million over its failure to supervise Tedesco while on duty, the Post reported. She claimed she lives in fear of retaliation and has suffered “severe emotional and psychological damages,” according to the Daily News.
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If he were at the doughnut shop he would have been ok.
It kinda pisses me off that he is retired with FULL pension and us lucky tax payers got to pay for him to sleep around on his wife while he was supposed to be doing his job, that we paid for. Now he gets his full pension, which we also pay for. Typical...
Ok why is she trying to sue him now. She slept with him multiple times and now she wants to sue the police department. Really.... Did he not pay enough then?
So lemme get this straight, She allowed this guy in her home at least 57 times suckin' & Fk'n all night and now wants to sue the County for 10 Million for letting him do this.
Hmmmmm. Only in America my friends. Only in America.
GA Creek Dog
Wow, the audacity and you think she has brass balls too?
...oink.
Hi, I am pigotry (to introduce myself). The following is my additional comment:
GA CD and Jack,
I can say this broad is about as brazen as the McDonald's chick that sued for putting something hot between her legs and getting burned by it. I would say let her file, then put her in the slam for prostitution, contributing to the delinquency of a child, extortion, etc. Worst part is that if she gets the right jury, she will win.
A cop is f**king off? If there is a story here, it's that a cop is being prosecuted for it. Now that is news.
Mr. Tedesco was having fun on his job, the rest of you are just jealous of him.
Most of you just work on your dead-end job, without much fun, but can't stand someone who did enjoy his job and have fun. Do all of you have to be such a pig, the jealous type?
GA jack....Tracy,
On second thought,...
He banged her 57 times. She's divorced. He's going to be divorced (if not already) He's collecting full pension.
"THEY" get married and live happily ever after with 10 Million in the bank "AND" his full pension.
Hmmmmmm...Only in America my friends.... Only in America.
Have a nice weekend.
CD
Getting ready to head out but glad I checked in first CD
Now THAT is one hell of a possibility. Keep it quiet, stay away from each other for a bit, then take the money and run.
If it isn't their plan, then it should have been.
Have a fantastic weekend
T
All he has to do is say he is supporting Obama's domestic policies and everything will be alright.
we all parents should just take action and prevent from this to happen else where, we should contact our schools, school districts, governors, even our president and have them install metal detectors at every school, let's be really honest and security systems are not great, anyone can just walk into any school, all you do you just sign in in a piece of paper, let's all take action before this happens again!!:(
do what erika? Wrong thread I believe
ahhh..so this is what they mean by undercover work.
The only difference being that this woman put something hot between her legs and the tax payers are going to get burned for it...
FYI, the McDonald's case was legitimate, and if you saw the pictures of this "chick" (Mrs. Liebeck was 79 years old), you would agree that she was right to file her lawsuit. I think you should apologize for your insensitive comment. Here are the facts:
Stella Liebeck, 79 years old, was sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car having purchased a cup of McDonald’s coffee. After the car stopped, she tried to hold the cup securely between her knees while removing the lid. However, the cup tipped over, pouring scalding hot coffee onto her lap. She received third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, necessitating hospitalization for eight days, whirlpool treatment for debridement of her wounds, skin grafting, scarring, and disability for more than two years.
mozzie-600
and this was McDonalds fault how? by giving her the hot coffee she ordered. Her mistake by putting the cup in an unstable position to try to remove the lid. Good thing stupid isn't illegal.
Here's how, although you could look up the case yourself if you weren't so lazy. The jury found that McDonald's policy of keeping their coffee at 185-degrees was excessive. They have since revised that policy.
With luck, you will be 79 years old some day, and people won't call you stupid, although they would most likely be correct. Some people's mental capacity does not improve with age.
Why didn't she put it in a cup holder? She put it between her legs, and i guarantee you, she squeezed her thighs together to hold it firm popping the lid off and when it started to burn, she freaked out and tried to grab it inadvertently making the situation worse however,
I do agree that 185 degrees was excessive. As we all have opinions, this is my analogy.
Creek Dog, the plaintiff was found 20% responsible for her injuries.
Mozzie, the fact that you believe that someone can be only 20% responsible shows a complete lack of common sense. After she was handed her coffee by the employee the "responsibility" shifted 100% to her. Sorry to say that our so called "justice" system is a farce.
"...she plans to sue Nassau County for $10 million..."
I'd blow the guy for half that.
Go to the National Coffee Association website. Optimal temperature for brewing coffee- 195 to 205 degrees Fahrenheit, optimal temperature for storing brewed coffee- 180 to 185 degrees Fahrenheit. It looks like McDonald's was just trying to give their customers the highest quality coffee product they could. What the customer does with it after they purchase and take possession of it is not really McDonald's concern.
Sluts will be sluts =\
This woman is out to screw everybody.
That is a good definition of a prostitute.
(of course, he wasn't any better)
What? How could you say that? He was delivering an important 'public service' - truly living up to our motto 'we sever and protect'!!!!!!!!!
To further prove my point...Tara is a widow, Mr. Tedesco is filling the void and delivering necessary service to our needy public.
$10 million dollars....good luck with that!
HE probably put her up to it in retaliation for being asked to leave w/ pending charges !!!
Notice how the low - class skank had no complaints while she was banging the guy, right? Did she ever call his boss to say "hey, your cop needs to stop sweating up my sheets while he's on duty." No she didn't, of course not. To be expected of a low -class adulteress bitch -- still trying to get something that isn't hers, and to get it for nothing.
This skank was bedding down another woman's man and now she's been harmed?? Can you say WHORE?
She was divorced and he was married. I would think that would make him the whore in the traditional sense but you could easily call her a money whore. Theres no way she will win a dime if there is anyone on this case with half a brain cell.
Finding that half a brain cell in the justice system may be harder than you think.
He is collecting a full state pension, the Post reported. This is wrong, he should be stripped of the pension. And the skank trying to soak the taxpayer's out of ten million, she should be arrested for prostitution.
Not the smartest cop on the force. And he's to get a full pension after only 18 years? Whadda PD.
That's the police unions for you.
They protect criminal activity.
At least he didn't commit bigamy, like my dad's last wife did, and kept from going to jail by claiming: "she thought she was divorced".
Wait. What? The department didn't properly supervise their employee, but she isn't at fault either for sleeping with another woman's husband? Nice logic.
It goes back to the prevalent lazy a$$hole logic of, "it isn't my fault, someone else owes me!"
I so hope that lady doesnt get @!$%# and gets laughed out of court
She obviously ISN'T a lady, though I agree with the rest. The 'ladies' I am aware of are paid per night and do not launch ludicrous lawsuits after they're through with you. :)
The only good that will come of this is that the innocent spouse of the policeman can enjoy the fact the he and his mistress are publicly making themselves out to be the idiots that they are. Not a small amount of poetic justice there.
Yeah....to her brain. $10 million for severe emotional and psychological damages? Unless this guy was abusing her and had her living in fear, she won't get that money. She knew this guy was leaving his gun in reach of her kids and did nothing to stop it. This woman is full of stupidity. And this guy deserves what he gets. She won't win her case.
I always hear lawyers with this kind of headline not cops
You willingly screw with a married man knowing that he visited you while he was supposed to be on duty and you have nerve to sue Nassau County? She didn't care about her children so why should the taxpayers? What gall. I would love to be on that jury.
Another rotten apple for the cider barrel.
A full pension at 43? What is this Greece? It sure as hell will be...
@ makessense-7131188 and others: hopefully NY will do like PA is doing in the Jerry Sandusky situation, and petition the court to STOP him from receiving his pension based on his misconduct.
Maybe she could be asked to pay his salary because she had her own personal police force?
The woman is going to lose that lawsuit...and I hope the retired cop loses his pension. It is legal to take pensions from criminals, right? Or at least freeze his pension until the trial is over (and if he is declared innocent, which we all know he is not!)...
It's 2011 now and this guy think that he can get away with this extreme deriliction of duty by spending the vast majority of his shift at a private residence? How didn't they catch this after the first time he failed to check in regularly nevermind the 80-wahteverth? Great force they've got in that nassau-county if I was a professional criminal of some kind I think that I know where I'd be scouting out some cheap housing...
The neighbor of the mistress filed the complaint and is suing the county. His mistress is not the one suing.
wrong, Obenaeur is the one suing and if you read the article before commenting on it you'd know that but just like this stupid-idiot cop you don't think before you act sir so now you just look like a cretin.
I'm thinking her first husband was the lucky one here, getting away from this A$$hole Bi-och.
Well he got the "To Serve..." part right. Just kinda forgot the "And Protect" part while he was knockin boots on duty and the store down the road was getting held up.
To be truthful, I doubt this isn't all that uncommon. Cops are known to have "groupies" who go for that stuff. I knew a girl who used to have a regular "visit" in the afternoons from a cop. I never knew his marital status, but you would see his car parked at her place in the afternoons for a quickie. This was ten years ago and no longer happening btw.
How nice that he still collects a pension for police misconduct. Gotta hand to the police union