Cop fired after palling around with Roger Stone and Jan. 6 insurrectionists sues NYPD

The NYPD cop fired for associating with former Trump adviser Roger Stone, palling around with the Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis and fraternizing with far-right extremists is suing the city Police Department.

Salvatore Greco — who accompanied Stone on Jan. 6, 2021, the day throngs of supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol — asserts the department and police commissioner violated his constitutional rights and hopes to challenge the NYPD’s restriction on sworn officers consorting with known felons.

“This rule is ‘overbroad’ and its application is in contravention of the First Amendment and must be stricken,” states the suit, filed Sunday in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Greco said that he was not paid to be Stone’s security, and he never wore a badge or gun.

In a statement to the Daily News, he said he was unable to afford a funeral for his father — who died during what he called “this 19-month political persecution” — because he racked up legal fees once the special House committee probing the events of Jan. 6 subpoenaed him.

“The action taken against me has cost me my reputation, my job and my life savings,” Greco stated.

“This lawsuit will hopefully begin the cycle where if you are to conduct political witch hunts, that there will be some semblance of accountability through our great republic.”

The NYPD declined to comment on the pending litigation.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Greco’s case is not unusual in that the department have been engaging in these sorts of ‘political viewpoint’ hit jobs for more than 40 years,” said Greco’s lawyer Eric Sanders.

“With these legal claims, Mr. Greco intends to shed light on the institutional problem and hold the city and the other defendants’ accountable for these actions.”

Greco, who was never accused of taking part in the riot at the Capitol, was recorded by Danish filmmakers hanging out with Stone and former Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis in the Willard hotel in D.C. on the day of the chaos. A video clip published by the Washington Post shows him wearing a badge and a gun in a shoulder holster.

When previously asked about the footage, Stone told the Daily News, “I have no memory of that. Immaterial.”

Greco was found guilty in his department trial in March and April of “wrongfully and knowingly associating with person[s], Roger Jason Stone, Jr., and Kristin M. Davis, reasonably believed to be engaged in, likely to engage in, or to have engaged in criminal activities.”

He was also found to have violated departmental prohibitions on “wrongfully and knowingly associat[ing] with any person or organization advocating hatred, oppression, or prejudice based on race, religion, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or disability” due to his close association with the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, two extremist groups.

Greco said that the Internal Affairs Bureau dug into his phone and internet records and even followed him around, but found no evidence that he was engaged in illegal activity.

Stone was convicted of obstructing a government proceeding and threatening a witness in November 2019, over his conduct during a House probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump pardoned him before leaving office.

Davis was convicted in 2008 of promoting prostitution and again in 2013 of dealing illegal pharmaceutical drugs. She served two years in federal prison.

Greco’s social media accounts are awash with photos of him palling around with top-level members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, but the former cop asserts that he has never been tied to the riot on the Capitol or any attempt to overthrow the government.

He argues that he was booted from the force for his “familial” and “political” ties with Stone, Davis and the right wing groups in violation of his First Amendment right to free assembly.

The former cop previously vowed to sue for $25 million, but no top dollar amount was named in Sunday’s filing. He said that he’s looking to be reinstated as an officer with back pay and benefits.