Ex-NYPD officer gets up to 23 1/2 years for ticket fixing, selling fake DVDs, plotting to kill witness, more
In return for pleading guilty to the laundry list of crimes, Jose Ramos, 45, was sentenced to 15 1/2 to 23 1/2 years behind bars. That sentence will run concurrently with the up to 14 1/2 years he’s already serving on attempted robbery and drug charges
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 6:42 PM
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MICHAEL SCHWARTZ FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWSJose Ramos at Bronx Supreme Court with his lawyer Matt Kluger, during his sentencing, on December 10, 2014.
A corrupt to the core former cop who sparked a massive investigation into ticket fixing in the NYPD pleaded guilty to a slew of crimes in the Bronx on Tuesday, including outing a confidential informant and plotting to kill a witness against him.
Jose Ramos also copped to insurance fraud, selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs — and ticket fixing.
In return for pleading guilty to the laundry list of crimes, Ramos, 45, was sentenced to 15 1/2 to 23 1/2 years behind bars.
That sentence will run concurrently with the 12 1/2 to 14 1/2 he's already serving on attempted robbery and drug charges — meaning he could wind up serving only an extra three years for his mountain of dirty dealings.
Terry Raskyn, a spokeswoman for the Bronx District Attorney's office, noted that Ramos gave up his right to appeal as part of the plea deal.
Internal Affairs started investigating the 40th Precinct cop in 2008, after getting a tip that he'd been secretly running two barber shops in the Bronx and that his best friend, a convicted felon, was selling "pounds and pounds of marijuana out of them."
He'd also let the dealer use his NYPD parking placard, prosecutors said.
The information checked out — so police put a wiretap on Ramos and heard him talking about widespread ticket fixing with his brothers in blue.
The ensuing investigation led to 15 police officers being indicted and hundreds of others being disciplined.
The dirty deeds of former NYPD cop Jose Ramos Ramos sparked a probe that led to 15 police officers being indicted and hundreds of others being disciplined.
The probe into Ramos, meanwhile, found he was as dirty as could be.
He stood trial last year for failing three NYPD "integrity tests."
Those "failures" included taking money from a drug dealer to drive a van he thought was filled with drugs, robbing a drug dealer's empty hotel room and helping another crook swindle somebody out $30,000 — unaware that undercover cops were involved in each crime.
At his sentencing for those crimes in December, he said, "I don't deny I've done wrong," but "I have not hurt anyone. I would not hurt anyone."
During his guilty plea Tuesday, he admitted ratting out an informant to drug dealers and plotting to dip into his NYPD pension to hire a hit man to whack a witness against him.
He was sentenced by Justice Michael Gross, who told him in December that he had "utterly disgraced your badge and your uniform."
Ramos, a 17-year NYPD vet, was fired from the department after his first conviction last year.
