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NYPD Vice Officer Suspected Of Being Pimp: "I'm Not A Pimp"
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 29, 2012
Modified Jan 29, 2012
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Earlier this month, a seven-year-veteran NYPD officer accused of moonlighting as a pimp was charged internally by the NYPD with promoting prostitution. Officer Monty Green has been the subject of an Internal Affairs probe since 2009, and hasn't been formally charged with anything. But the IAB has amassed a largely circumstantial case in order to try to take away his badge. Green denied all the allegations to the Daily News: “I’m not a pimp. I don’t solicit anyone for sex or pay anyone for sex."
Among other things, Green is suspected of having been involved in prostitution at a downtown Brooklyn club called Rockwell’s Bar & Lounge, as well as pimping women out for “jumping off” bashes ("bachelor parties"). Altogether, Green has been the subject of nine department investigations, including associating with criminals, menacing and official misconduct. He was also placed on modified duty in December 2009 over an unrelated menacing case involving an unidentified woman.
“The Police Department is demonizing me,” Green told the News, adding that he was an active cop who logged more than 300 arrests in Brownsville’s busy 73rd Precinct. No criminal charges have been brought against Green, partially because the suspected prostitutes were intimidated and refused to cooperate with prosecutors.
But police say they have taped proof of a conversation between Green and a prostitute named "Candy" in which they discuss how their pimping arrangement would work, with him asking her “You looking for a daddy?" Green says he was entrapped, and the conversation was taken out of context: “She came to me and told me she needed help,” he said. “I was just talking sh*t with her.” Green characterized the conversation as “flirtatious talk” with a woman he found very attractive. His lawyer says he was simply acting as a "mack daddy" in order to sleep with her, but there was no exchange of money: “He may not be the husband of the year, but he’s not a criminal.”
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