An openly gay lieutenant in charge of investigating NYPD sexual discrimination goes on departmental trial this week, charged with tormenting two subordinates with “lewd” and “bizarre” conduct, including stroking his genitals and simulating oral sex.
Lt. Kieran Crowe, 46, faces four disciplinary charges in the alleged sexual harassment of Sgts. Dominic Coppola and Sean Gallagher, who worked under him in the NYPD’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity from 2001 to 2004.
Their federal suit, filed in 2005, alleges that the 23-year NYPD veteran rubbed his inner thigh while moaning, licked the back of his hand and stared at Gallagher’s crotch so often that the sergeant took to covering himself with folders.
Coppola said Crowe would call him into his office and “take his forefinger and middle finger and squeeze his testicles.”
Crowe’s lawyer, Rae Koshetz, accused the sergeants of simply “looking for this guy’s job.”