Ex-Port Authority Cop Sentenced To Probation After Touring With Metal Band While Collecting Disability
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A former Port Authority cop who was busted touring with his heavy metal band while collecting disability checks was sentenced to three years' probation Wednesday.
Christopher Inserra pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn court in April to one count of fraud.
Inserra was collecting his full $90,000-a-year salary for 20 months while touring with the band Cousin Sleaze, WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported. The singer was caught touring and thrashing around onstage despite that he reported injuring his right arm in 2010 while on duty at the World Trade Center.
Federal Judge Leo Glasser said it was a case of pure greed and that he lost sleep while coming up with an appropriate sentence. Glasser said he walked into the courtroom intending to send Inserra to prison, but after hearing the rocker's lawyer attribute the crime to an oxycodone addiction, the judge had second thoughts and sentenced him to probation instead.
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