NEW YORK — Roger Stone, the disgraced longtime adviser to Donald Trump, made a surprise appearance at NYPD headquarters Wednesday to support a cop on departmental trial for working off-duty as Stone’s armed bodyguard.
Looking tan and dressed smartly in a pin-striped suit and gray tie, Stone sat in the front row of the NYPD trial room at One Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan flanked by a small entourage.
He watched intently as NYPD prosecutors went through phone records and hotel bills they say prove Officer Salvatore Greco and Stone were in repeated contact and were at the Willard Hotel together during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Stone, Greco and a few others also spent the lunch break together, sharing a pizza. Stone declined to comment on the proceeding when the lunch break began.
The NYPD seeks to discipline Greco for violating departmental rules by allegedly acting as Stone’s bodyguard.
He also may have violated NYPD rules against associating with known felons. Stone was convicted of lying to Congress and was sentenced to 40 months in prison before being pardoned by then-President Trump.
Greco also palled with Stone’s friend “Manhattan Madam” Kristin Davis, who was convicted of prostitution-related activities and selling prescription drugs.
An NYPD prosecutor says Greco carried a gun as he worked “uncompensated” security for Stone and Davis during the Jan. 6 riot.
Greco allegedly accompanied Stone’s Oath Keepers security team. Members of the militia are accused of leaving the Willard that day and storming the Capitol.
Greco’s lawyer Stuart London claims Greco merely picked Stone up at the airport and took him to the Willard hotel, then accompanied him on various outings to the mall and even to get his hair cut. Greco didn’t leave the hotel during the riot, he said.
Stone defended Greco on The Gateway Pundit, describing the cop as an upstanding officer who followed the rules.
“I can honestly say I have never seen his badge or his service weapon,” Stone wrote.
Video published by The Washington Post, however, showed otherwise.
Footage captured by a documentary crew shows Stone and Greco in a room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Greco stands an arms-length away from Stone, his gun in a shoulder holster and his NYPD shield on his belt.
When previously asked about the footage, Stone replied to the Daily News, “I have no memory of that. Immaterial.”
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(New York Daily News writer Graham Rayman contributed.)
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