A federal judge has batted down former New York Jets star Wayne Chrebet’s lawsuit against five Nassau County cops and other officials ​that claimed they targeted his ​since-shuttered Long Island nightspot with bogus inspections and violations.
Chrebet claimed that Nassau cops​​ and fire marshals relentlessly harassed patrons and conducted needless inspections of his eponymous bar and grill because his business partner testified against an officer in an unrelated case.
Opened to great fanfare near the campus of his alma mater, Hofstra University, Chrebet claims that his once bustling business was forced to go under because of the non-stop police presence
Nassau officials “used bogus raids and similar means to deliberately drive plaintiff’s business into the ground,” the suit states.
But after a five-year legal wrangle, Judge Dennis Hurley dismissed the case on a slew of legal technicalities.
Hurley argued that Chrebet claimed that he personally suffered damages in the suit but that the restaurant was actually controlled by a corporation.
According to the suit, Chrebet claims that cops, fire marshals and building inspectors descended on the upscale establishment more than ten times in under 18 months and buried him in summonses and tickets.
Chrebet claims that officers wanted to stick it to him because his manager, Matthew Prince, had told a grand jury that cops were lying about being attacked by a patron in an unrelated case in Nassau County.
Kenny Kramer vowed to appeal the ruling. “I look forward to a day in court where I will have the opportunity to defend (and shamelessly promote) The Kramer Reality Tour and my good name,” he ​told The Post.
“Fred better settle this with me or lawyer up and be ready for a lot more litigation because I’m not going away anytime soon,” Kramer added.