NYPD brass are using department cars to evade tolls while driving to work — even as thousands of furious commuters are forced to pay steep congestion-pricing fees, according to a whistleblower lawsuit.
An NYPD boss claims many cops are pulling the scam, according to court papers.
Lt. Joseph Abdelmessih names nine department bosses he says have been using NYPD vehicles for their personal commutes — enabling them to dodge the same congestion-pricing tolls that everyday New Yorkers can’t escape — in the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Abdelmessih himself was the subject of a February Post exposé detailing his shady commuting practices — parking his Mercedes at his Staten Island home and commuting to Manhattan in a department vehicle on job time.
It helped him duck roughly $20,000 in toll

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