Posted on 06/08/2019 1:04:13 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
The scene was more surreal than the accusation: The 12-year NYPD veteran busted for hiring a hit man to whack her estranged husband now begging for his help.
Imprisoned officer Valerie Cincinelli, her weeping audible via speakerphone Thursday in a Nassau County courtroom, proclaimed her innocence in a pair of murder-for-hire plots before directly addressing her skeptical spouse Isaiah Carvalho.
“Isaiah, can you hear me?” asked Cincinelli in a disembodied voice as their divorce case hearing wound to a close. “Hello, can you hear me? You know I didn’t do this. You know me for how many years? You frickin’ know me. You know I’m a good mom.”
A stone-faced Carvalho, whose “death” was staged earlier this month as part of the federal case against his wife, sat mutely and stared down at a courtroom table while Cincinelli spoke. The two were married four years ago, and Carvalho sued his wife for divorce last year in Nassau County Supreme Court.
By then, she was cheating with a boyfriend who contacted the FBI and wore a wire against Cincinelli after she asked him to locate a shooter this past February.
Cincinelli earlier noted that she was only charged and not convicted when the subject turned to an order of protection granted to her 5-year-old son in the wake of her May 17 arrest for the alleged schemes to execute Carvalho and the 15-year-old daughter of her beau John DiRubba.
“Your honor, it’s an allegation,” said Cincinelli, 34, who remains locked up inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. “And I’m going to be found not guilty. I assure you that. It’s just going to take a little time.
"I raised (my son). I’ve done everything for him, and I didn’t do anything wrong. It’s an allegation.”
Her stressed-out spouse declined to discuss the case against his wife, who was indicted Thursday on two counts of murder for hire and one for obstruction of justice. Prosecutors charged that she allegedly destroyed a pair of iPhones in a failed cover-up of the planned homicides.
She was busted after DiRubba, a mob wannabe described by a former neighbor as a “poor man’s Tony Soprano," cooperated with the FBI to bring her down. The suspect turned homicidal toward DiRubba’s 15-year-old daughter because the girl was cutting into the couple’s time together, authorities alleged.
The high school student, like Carvalho, escaped unharmed after DiRubba contacted the FBI and the wheels were set in motion for Cincinelli’s arrest.
Both her lawyer in the divorce matter and her criminal defense attorney asserted their client was innocent.
"I don’t think she did any of this,” said marital attorney Vincent Trimarco. “There was never any indication to me that she did any of this or that anything like this was possible.”
Defense attorney James Kousouros, who took on the case last week, echoed those sentiments.
“We are contesting these charges vigorously,” he said. "There’s clearly more than to this case than meets the eye. We intend to prove Ms. Cincinelli’s innocence in this matter.”
Carvalho said he was unaware of the indictment unsealed Thursday against his wife. At the end of the Long Island hearing, the husband was granted access to the couple’s home to pick up their son’s belongings.
Cincinelli was arrested after federal agents staged a murder scene using the still-alive Carvalho. The “victim” was posed slumping into the passenger seat of his car, and authorities scattered broken glass across the floor and Carvalho’s supposed corpse. A Suffolk County detective actually visited Cincinelli’s Long Island home to notify her of the husband’s fake murder.
Authorities said the bogus death pic of Carvalho was texted to Cincinelli on her cell phone. Under the deal with the “hit man,” the cost for killing Carvalho was $7,000 while the slaying of the teenager would add $3,000 to the terrible tab, authorities said.
According to the indictment, Cincinelli trashed an iPhone 6 and an iPhone X Max to prevent their use in a grand jury investigation of the alleged double murder plot.
If convicted, the maximum prison sentence for murder for hire is 10 years —while obstruction of justice carries a potential 20-year term.
The callous Cincinelli — the mother of a 10-year-old daughter from a previous relationship — was unmoved when the phony hit man blanched at the plan to murder the teen near a New Jersey school, according to a source.
“Run her the f–-- over," she allegedly replied. "How about that?”
There are a handful of places you could not pay to to live. Chicago is on that list. They are all dem strongholds, which of course include the subject city of NYC.
The Governor "FatBoy" JB Pritzker is from the city. Billionaire. Never worked an honest day in his life and just jacked up taxes and fees in this state a whopping $45 BILLION dollars without cutting a single penny from the state's bloated spending.
I've taken to calling it "Illizuela" ...
She must be pretty damn cunning and smart as well considering she managed to keep the badge and gun for 10+ years.
But, hey.... it's NYPD...Blue wall and all....
[the Jussie Skillet defense]
LOL. I like that.
It’s beautiful.
Ending a relationship is like knocking over a Coke machine. It doesn’t tip over the first time. You have to rock it back and forth.
[ She was busted after DiRubba, a mob wannabe described by a former neighbor as a “poor man’s Tony Soprano,” cooperated with the FBI to bring her down. The suspect turned homicidal toward DiRubba’s 15-year-old daughter because the girl was cutting into the couple’s time together, authorities alleged. ]
O.K. so the married woman has a poor man’s Tony Soprano as a boyfriend. BUT he has a 15-year-old daughter, who cuts into her time together with him (the boyfriend).
So, she wants the boyfriend to take out her husband and the boyfriend’s own daughter. Sloppy writing when they finally introduce the boyfriend’s name.
I guess he “Di Rubba them out” - if possible. For $10,000.
Yeah, she’s a good mom. I can totally see that.
This lady has been fired from NYPD...
It was disclosed. Spending time at boyfriends while supposed to be working. This woman is a real slut.
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NYPD disciplined her for sharing confidential information with her boyfriend...The same guy who went to FBI to reveal the murder plot...
may 17th by post reported she was suspended and later placed on modified duty after the bf told internal affairs she was at his home while on duty.
Her brother was FBI...
FBI agent brother to cop accused of murder-for-hire plot, dead by suicide: sources
7/25/2019, 11:07:10 AM · by Marcell · 38 replies
New York Post ^ | July 24,2019 | By Larry Celona, Craig McCarthy, Emily Saul and Bruce Golding
The FBI agent brother of an NYPD cop accused in a murder-for-hire plot killed himself while out of town with other agents, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Wednesday. Salvatore “Sal” Cincinelli, 41, was found with at least one gunshot wound inside the Container Bar in Austin, Texas, when cops arrived there shortly before midnight on July 16 in response to a report of gunfire, a spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department said. The incident is being investigated as suicide, the spokeswoman said. She wouldn’t elaborate. Cincinelli was a former Wall Street trader who joined the FBI in 2011 and...
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