Sweeney v. Safir

—Determination of respondent Police Commissioner dated December 31, 1997, dismissing petitioner from his position as a police officer, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Elliott Wilk, J.], entered September 18, 1998) dismissed, without costs.

No basis exists to disturb respondent’s finding that petitioner knowingly made false statements, in police reports and Grand Jury testimony, that he was the victim of a gunpoint robbery of his fiancee’s car when, in…