A defense lawyer for one of three BASE jumpers busted for evading security and parachuting from the Freedom Tower blasted NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton for claiming the daredevils had insider help.
“It’s baseless and misguided,” said Timothy Parlatore, lawyer for daredevil Andrew Rossig. “Rather than waste taxpayer’s money searching for other phantom accomplices so the police commissioner can shift blame from the city — which failed to provide adequate security — my client and I are willing to meet with him at the World Trade Center to show him exactly how they got in.”
Bratton addressed the recent mortifying security breaches at the site in an interview Sunday with WABC- 7’s “Up Close with Diane Williams.”
“They didn’t walk up,” he asserted. “They had assistance getting in and out of there, and we’re continuing our investigations as to who helped them get up there.”
But the three men – Rossig, James Brady and Marko Markovich — insist that they simply accessed the Freedom Tower through a hole in a fence that was obscured by a tarp.
Rossig said the infiltration required “no effort whatsoever.”
“God forbid it was somebody else getting in there with intentions of harm to New Yorkers,” he said in an interview last week.
The men videotaped their Sept. 30 jump from the steel beams on the 105th floor.
A New Jersey teen also breached the landmark and climbed the tower’s spire March 16th, the Post exclusively reported.
“They should be embarrassed,” Parlatore said of city brass. “If they’re not — it’s a problem. I’m sure the Commissioner has my number. I hope he calls me.”