The CEO of financially reeling furniture giant Jennifer Convertibles drunkenly mowed down a bus-depot security guard crossing a Queens highway on foot, authorities said yesterday.
Harley Greenfield, 65, was driving to his Upper East Side home late Wednesday when he plowed his 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt into Mohammed Rohman, 45, on the Whitestone Expressway, a law-enforcement source said.
Rohman, a married father of two who was taking a dinner break, was then run over by a 2008 Audi A4.
The Summit Security employee, who was as a guard at a nearby MTA bus depot, was pronounced dead at the scene in College Point.
Greenfield, one of the founders of Woodbury, LI-based Jennifer Convertibles, allegedly had “slurred speech and glassy eyes” and admitted to drinking one glass of vodka and a glass of wine, prosecutors said.
The sofabed retail maven was given a portable Breathalyzer test at the scene; the results were not immediately released. He later refused to take an official Breathalyzer test when police from the 109th Precinct took him into custody, authorities said.
Cops then obtained a warrant to draw his blood to test for alcohol.
Greenfield appeared haggard and disheveled at his arraignment last night in Queens Criminal Court, where he was released without bail.
He was charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol. The Audi driver was not charged. Greenfield’s family had no comment at his York Avenue apartment.
At Rohman’s home in Jamaica, Queens, his wife, Rowshan Ara Begam, 32, was mourning her husband of 17 years, along with their daughters Marjana, 12, and Moontarin, 6.
Begam said, “I loved him very, very much. I miss him . . . We’re all praying for him.”
Marjana said, “He was a great father, really caring. He always asked if we were doing our homework, always gave us lots of advice, and made sure that we knew right from wrong.”
Family friend Mostafa Shafiq Housnine said Rohman, a Bangladeshi immigrant, was “the only guy working in his family. How can they survive?”
“We need justice.”
Greenfield’s company has continued suffering financial losses in recent months.
On Tuesday, Jennifer Convertibles reported a net loss of $6.4 million in the recently ended second fiscal quarter, compared to a $2.3 million loss in the same period a year ago.
The company had a combined net loss of $13.3 million over the last two quarters.
Jennifer Convertibles’ losses over two of the past three years resulted in its being booted from the American Stock Exchange last month.