NYPD Cop Accused Of Swiping Title To Home With Forged Deed To Sue Local DA For False Arrest After Judge Throws Out Most Charges Against Her

In Brooklyn, New York, Gothamist reports:

• An NYPD cop who prosecutors have accused of stealing a townhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant through a fraudulent deed transfer is striking back, announcing her plans to sue the city for false arrest after a judge threw out some but not all of the charges against her.
  
  Police arrested veteran NYPD beat cop Blanche O'Neal, 46, last year on charges of possessing and filing forged documents, grand larceny, and perjury, alleging that she carried out the bogus purchase of the abandoned property from one of the heirs to the deceased owner, claiming he was the "sole heir," and later lied to a grand jury by saying she was the owner of the house. In March, a judge threw out three of the four charges against her, leaving only the perjury charge, which stems from a grand jury proceeding where she testified as a prosecution witness against a burglar.
  
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  Sanders and O'Neal allege that the prosecution is actually an extension of the efforts of the people behind an LLC with a central Long Island address to take over the property by fraud. They claim that the company, 23A Vernon LLC, and its principal, Yotam Michaeli, have concocted fake heirs to the property, doctored a death certificate for its late owner, and improperly acquired a Sheriff's Office investigator's interview notes with O'Neal to bolster their civil case to take the property. The owners have also, O'Neal's lawyers claim, repeatedly sent men to harass O'Neal, at the three-story Vernon house, as well as at the 83rd Precinct where she works, and threatened her livelihood.
  
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  The floundering of the prosecution of O'Neal could be seen as demonstrating the difficulty of untangling ownership in such cases.
  
  O'Neal's trial is set for October 19th. She faces as many as seven years in prison, not to mention the loss of her job, and of the house, which is easily worth more than a million dollars. The DA's Office is appealing the judge's decision to throw out her other charges.

For more, see Cop Accused Of Stealing Brooklyn House To Sue For False Arrest.