A Port Authority cop who moonlighted in a heavy- metal band while claiming to be disabled was indicted on a charge of insurance fraud yesterday, authorities said.
PA Police Officer Christopher Inserra, who performed as the lead singer of a Brooklyn band, Cousin Sleaze, stands accused by a Brooklyn federal grand jury of defrauding the AFLAC insurance company and the PA, according to the indictment unsealed yesterday.
Inserra, 31, who was arrested on the charges in March, was accused of scheming to defraud the insurance company and his employer between June 2010 and March 2012 by falsely reporting a “debilitating injury while on duty to the lower bicep and elbow region of his right arm,” according to the two-count indictment.
Despite the supposed injury, Inserra performed regularly in a four-member rock band, the indictment states.
Investigators for the PA’s inspector general videotaped Inserra using “his right arm in a manner that was inconsistent with his claimed injury.”
He could face 30 years in prison.