Metro

Cop was a ‘three’ timer

The married Long Island cop accused of spending hundreds of hours in the beds of two mistresses while claiming to be on duty also had an affair with at least one other woman, a source told The Post yesterday.

In a tragic twist, retired Nassau County cop Mike Tedesco’s third gal pal had been involved with a second married cop, Joseph Casazza, who killed himself last March when he learned he was under investigation, the source said.

Tedesco was finally busted yesterday after an investigation that took more than eight months. Cops compared at least six months of GPS records from his patrol car with reports he filed describing the calls he was supposedly responding to.

He was charged with official misconduct, falsifying business records and tampering with public records in connection with time spent with two of the women, and sprung on a $10,000 bond. He faces up to seven years behind bars.

The story broke in March when The Post reported that neighbors of a sexy Wall Street exec named Tara Obenauer noticed a marked patrol car regularly parked in her driveway.

The curious residents notified cops.

“I’m not surprised about the third woman, or more,’’ Obenauer, the only one of the three who has gone public, said yesterday.

“He’s someone with great psychological problems. I thought I knew him, but I only knew the persona he put forth — I didn’t know him at all. He’s an egomaniac.’’

Obenauer had previously said he let other, younger officers — whom he called “my assist bitches’’ — answer police calls, so he could goof off while collecting his $182,000 salary.

She had believed he was divorcing his wife, Sharon, who has remained loyal.

But when Internal Affairs cops knocked on her door in February, she learned that not only was he still married — he was also cheating on her.

After Tedesco’s arraignment, Nassau DA Kathleen Rice said he “endangered the public with his selfishness’’ by reporting to his bosses that he was en route to calls — including a cardiac arrest — when he was still at the women’s houses for as long as a half an hour.

“He was late to calls and lied about his whereabouts. His crimes could have cost people their lives,’’ said Rice. “He betrayed the public trust. He violated his oath.’’

She added that the first two girlfriends “overlapped,’’ and that both lived in his precinct.

Rice said officials will calculate how much time he spent having sex on the taxpayers’ dime and demand that he pay it back.

Defense lawyer Kevin Kearon said, “Our position is no crimes were committed.’’

He added that he hoped to accomplish “the restoration’’ of his client’s position. He did not explain how he could do that in view of Tedesco’s retirement.

The third woman went to police after reading about Tedesco’s other affairs. She told investigators that she, too, had sex with Tedesco and other Nassau cops, sometimes in her van, the source said.

One of her paramours was Casazza, a married dad and 25-year veteran, who hanged himself in a park in Bellmore after he was questioned, the source said.

It was reported at the time that he was being probed for seeing a girlfriend while on duty, but it had not been previously known the woman was part of Tedesco’s harem.