The New York Post by MURRAY WEISS and LORENA MONGELLI
March 19, 2008 -- A 22-year NYPD veteran was forced into retirement after being snared in a sleazy Internet sex talk with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, authorities said yesterday. Lt. Michael Kealy, 45 - known in the department by the nickname Touchy Feely Kealy - got into the salacious conversation in a Web chat room visited by women who want to talk with NYPD officers. It turned out that the teenager was actually an undercover Internal Affairs Bureau detective.
Kealy was brought up on departmental charges and eventually pleaded guilty to "inappropriate communication with a person believed to be a 14-year-old girl." He also pleaded guilty to departmental charges involving an accident two years ago with his personal car in which a pedestrian was injured. In that case, Kealy admitted leaving the scene of an accident, failing to notify a patrol supervisor, failure to prepare a police report and abuse of authority, police said.
Besides being forced to retire early, Kealy forfeited 30 days of vacation time and underwent a 30-day unpaid suspension.
Kealy had an impeccable record as a police officer, said his lawyer, James Moschella, who maintained yesterday that the charges aren't entirely true.
"The fact is, Lt. Kealy, to secure his pension, had to admit to things that he had never admitted to," Moschella said.
Kealy was most recently assigned to housing projects in the Bronx and Queens. murray.weiss@nypost.com
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