An NYPD chief linked to some recent police controversies has been approved for a three-quarters disability pension, the Daily News has learned.
Deputy Chief Michael Marino, 57, will collect $135,000 a year, most of it tax-free. The 35-year veteran is still the second in command at Patrol Borough Staten Island and is due to work his last day in the upcoming weeks.
Marino raised eyebrows last year during the federal stop-and-frisk trial, testifying that when he ran Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct in 2002, he set arrest and summons goals.
He also led the operation in 2009 when Officer Adrian Schoolcraft of the 81st Precinct, also in Brooklyn, was pulled from his Queens home and taken to Jamaica Hospital, where Schoolcraft alleged he was held as payback for blowing the whistle on precinct corruption.
Marino did not respond to a request for comment.
The pension board could not be reached for comment, and the NYPD said it couldn’t discuss Marino’s medical condition because of confidentiality laws.
