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.
