He got canned for being a thieving cop, and now a former NYPD detective — who still faces criminal charges in a $10 million burglary ring — says police brass ripped him off, using funny math to steal his pension.
Brash ex-cop Rafael Astacio whines in his Manhattan civil suit that he was “singled out for excessive punishment” when then-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly booted him from the force last year.
He says the move is “shocking to one’s sense of fairness.”
The Copiague, LI, resident was five days away from retirement after a 20-year career when the NYPD docked him seven “mystery days” that pushed his retirement date back to Oct. 23, according to court papers.
“The Pension Fund apparently made a mistake in adjusting his retirement date,” the suit says.
In the interim, Kelly suspended him on Oct. 18 — stopping the clock on his pension.
The criminal trial is still pending in Brooklyn federal court, but a departmental hearing last fall found Astacio guilty of burglary and additional charges of shoddy detective work.
But he called the hearing bogus, claiming Kelly overturned the judge’s sentence of 30 docked vacation days and a year’s suspension.
He is also asking the court to put him back on the force.
Astacio, 41, is accused of joining four robbers in dozens of heists at homes and businesses — nabbing $2 million in cash from a plastic surgeon’s office and $3 million in Hobie sunglasses and Under Armour gear from a warehouse.
He served as lookout for the gang — even listening in on fellow cops over a police scanner and using protected FBI databases to pull off the heists, prosecutors claim.
The former Finest was also busted for allegedly breaking into a Lindenhurst home in 2012.
Astacio, who is out on bail, faces up to 17 years behind bars. He is due back in federal court next week.
A city spokesman did not immediately comment.
Additional reporting by Selim Algar