The Port Authority is being forced to keep bad cops on the payroll — including one who moonlighted as a masseuse and then got convicted of molesting a female client and another who allegedly helped smuggle hashish through JFK — because their union refuses to submit to the agreed-upon disciplinary process, according to a new lawsuit.
The agency suit against the PA’s Police Benevolent Association over those two cops — one who is making $90,000 a year to sit at a desk — claims the union is stonewalling.
Kennedy Airport cop David Golembiowski was charged in November 2008 with accepting a $1,000 bribe from a Drug Enforcement Agency informant involved in busting a hashish-smuggling ring led by his crooked customs inspector dad, Walter Golembiowski.
The dad was sentenced to 10 years in jail. But his 44-year-old son’s been on administrative duty enjoying full pay the last seven years.
Golembiowski’s attorney, Barry Agulnick, said his client denies the charges and will “fight them 1,000 percent.”
Fellow Officer Brent Richardson, 45, has also been suspended without pay, but with medical benefits. The ex-WTC cop was convicted of indecent assault in 2008 for groping a female patron during a massage at his now-shut Pennsylvania day spa.
The union is blocking a trial on both men disputing the choice of arbitrators, the suit says.
A PA spokesman declined to comment. A union rep said they’ve filed a complaint about the dispute with the PA’s Employment Relations Panel and called the suit an “end run” around that.