A former NYPD Deputy Inspector who was accused of selling his badge to accommodate two Brooklyn businessmen in return for lavish meals and trips and hotel accommodations was acquitted of all charges by a jury in Federal Court in Manhattan Jan. 2, even as one of the businessmen was convicted on a series of bribe-related charges, the one exception being a count of paying off the ex-commander.
While ex-Deputy Inspector James Grant emerged from the courtroom in tears and declined to talk to reporters, saying he wanted to “collect my thoughts,” the head of his former union said in a subsequent phone interview, “It’s truly a Happy New Year for Jimmy Grant.”
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