A former Tenafly police officer who retired in 2022 due to complications from long COVID has won an appeal that will recognize his disability was due to his illness and thus increases his monthly pension.

However, collecting the pension is complicated, because Joseph Grieco, 39, is serving a prison term for fatally shooting his retired NYPD officer husband in 2023 during a night of drinking at their Vernon home. Grieco said it was accidental; he was demonstrating how to shoot a snake .

He’s not collecting a pension while serving an 11-year-sentence, however the new ruling will increase his payout for the time he was eligible — and could possibly result in him getting paid again once he’s out of prison.

His pension attorney, Christopher Gray, said Grieco’s effort to secure a higher p

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