Metro

Firefighter faces FDNY trial after revealing scandal to The Post

Another city firefighter is facing a departmental trial for giving an “unauthorized” interview to The Post — and for posing for a photo with his young daughter while in his uniform, sources said.

Firefighter Anthony Harper said in the November 2012 article how his fellow Bravest ostracized him over his decision to no longer eat meat and his refusal to pay for or share in the communal meals at his Brooklyn firehouse.

Harper, a nine-year veteran, was photographed wearing his FDNY dress uniform while holding his child.

He later filed a separate discrimination complaint claiming that once his co-workers found out he’d changed his name from Othaman Muhammad and was Muslim, they started calling him a “sand ­n—-r.’’

Harper then had formal disciplinary charges brought against him over The Post article.

He is accused of “giving an interview to the New York Post and allowing himself to be photographed wearing the Fire Department dress shirt and holding his daughter without having received written approval of the Fire commissioner and without communicating to his audience that his statements to the reporter were not made in his official capacity,’’ according to the city’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH), which handles alleged rule-book violations.

Before the charges, Harper had been on the promotional list to become a lieutenant — just like FDNY firefighter Elizabeth Osgood, whose promotion was yanked after she spoke to The Post about a female recruit allowed to graduate from the academy despite failing a crucial fitness test five times.

A FDNY spokesman has insisted that the department began investigating Osgood for “releasing confidential personnel information” concerning a colleague’s medical status, not just because she spoke with The Post.

Harper is currently performing clerical duties at FDNY headquarters at MetroTech.

The FDNY and Harper’s lawyer, Peter Gleason, had signed an agreement late last month that was supposed to end the flap.

Harper was to lose several days’ pay and drop his discrimination suit in return for being put back on the lieutenant’s list and being reassigned to full duty.

But when the FDNY didn’t hold up its end of the bargain, Gleason said, he decided to move ahead with the suit and push for a hearing over The Post article.

“We thought we had this settled, but the department has continued to show bad faith,” Gleason said.

A FDNY spokesman declined that it has acted in bad faith and added that the agency is moving forward with the hearing.