Four ranking NYPD cops have sued the city, contending that they were cast as straw men to conceal corruption at high levels when they were forced out of the department nearly two years ago.
The action, filed in Federal court, resuscitates allegations and suspicions resulting from a wide-ranging Federal bribery investigation that sent the former head of the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association to prison and for a time reached to Mayor de Blasio's office and the NYPD's top uniformed officer.
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