The former head of the NYPD school safety bureau was charged Thursday with taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes from a self-described “sugar daddy” seeking a lucrative city contract for his school shooting response app.
Kevin Taylor, 52, ensured that Florida-based company SafeWatch got a $19,830 contract — with no competing vendors — for a pilot program in September 2023, in exchange for the cash and perks from its CEO, Geno Roefaro, according to an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court.
Roefaro even allegedly paid for Taylor to take a trip to Las Vegas, where the head of the NYPD’s School Safety Division and a date enjoyed a helicopter tour and “medieval-themed dinner theater,” court papers state.
The allegedly corrupt ex-cop also urged the police department to award SafeWatch an $11 million contract and touted the supposed merits of Roefaro’s app in testimony to the City Council, according to the indictment…