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Court records reveal that despite allegations that he took an all-expenses-paid trip and hired prostitutes, a tiny Long Island village’s police commissioner got reappointed to a position that earns him a yearly salary of $245,000.

Back in 2010, Stephen McAllister was first appointed as the head of Floral Park’s 35-member police force, then on April 2, according to official minutes, he was voted in for a fifth term as top cop.

A mere three weeks later McAllister was pinned by the feds as an unindicted co-conspirator in an NYPD corruption scandal that will have its day in court soon. will soon head to court. McAllister makes $19,000 more a year than New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill, who oversees a force of approximately 36,000 officers.

According to The Post, “The records don’t show any discussion before the vote, even though McAllister was the subject of an internal probe last year over testimony that he joined two NYPD cops and others who flew to Miami in 2013 for a college football championship game. Admitted cop-briber and former Mayor Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz said he paid for ‘everything from A to Z on that trip,’ including an evening of ‘entertainment’ by prostitutes. McAllister was cleared of wrongdoing by the village probe, but federal prosecutors on Friday implicated him in the corruption case against ex-NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant and former de Blasio donor Jeremy Reichberg, set for trial this month. Court papers allege that McAllister — a retired NYPD inspector — interfered with three arrests of an unidentified Reichberg associate on Feb. 16, 2014, and on Oct. 28 and Dec. 16, 2015.”

According to prosecutors McAllister received “gifts that appear to have included event tickets, discounted or free jewelry, a ride on Rechnitz’s private plane, and home improvements,” from Reichberg.

According to the filing by the feds on March 12, “In exchange, on at least one occasion, Reichberg sought and obtained [McAllister’s] assistance in releasing a person who had been arrested.”

The feds also said that Rechnitz was named a Floral Park police chaplain, which allowed him to get a “law-enforcement parking placard” as well as install “lights and sirens” on his car.

According to the website of The Island Now, after McAllister’s waiver to continue raking in his NYPD pension was denied, the village board gave him his sixth raise, which increased his yearly salary by $55,000, last year.

The Post asked the mayor of Floral Park Dominick Longobardi about the decision to reappoint McAllister. Longobardi responded to the news outlet saying that “at the time, yes, we all agreed that it was the best thing and the best for the residents.”

By Mark Snyder

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