John McClave, 51, was canned in September — 17 months
shy of qualifying for a pension — after cops in New Jersey caught him driving
drunk in a PA police car. He challenged his firing, saying that other Port
Authority cops had gotten away with worse.
BY BARBARA ROSS
A former Port Authority Police Department captain who
was fired for drunken driving has gotten another dismissal — this one of the
legal variety.
John McClave, 51, was canned in September — 17 months
shy of qualifying for a pension — after cops in Howell, N.J., caught him
driving boozed-up in a PA police car. He challenged his firing, saying in court
papers that the Port Authority was more lenient with 17 other PA cops, whom he
alleged had done much worse.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Huff dismissed
his case, saying his examples were “hearsay reports.” She focused on the facts
in McClave’s case, “where a commanding officer was involved in multiple
instances of illegal and unprofessional
conduct
