Mistress Reveals Cop's Overnight Shifts in Her Bed

Under ‘covers’ 
The New York Post by Kieran Crowley  -  April 30, 2012

• Cop’s overnight shifts in my bed: mistress 
• Mistress says Nassau cop spent ovenight shifts shacking up at her place and other cops covered for him

The sexy mistress of a Long Island cop says she enjoyed wild romps while he was on duty with his police cruiser parked in her driveway. Nassau Officer Mike Tedesco allegedly would tell other cops to cover for him while he got out of uniform to get intimate with single mom and Wall Street exec Tara Obenauer — who said he’d leave his pistol and gun belt draped over the foot of her bed during their trysts. “He was cheating on the county, and he was cheating on me, and he did the same thing to his own wife and children,’’ said Obenauer, who claimed she’d thought he was divorcing his wife. “He would be at my house for hours during his shift, hanging out in his uniform on the couch, watching TV with my kids, taking a nap,” said Obenauer, who is single. Her children are from a previous relationship; the officer is married with two kids. “He was stealing time from the county for six months. He [would ask his pals to] take his calls.’’ Obenauer, 42, of Massapequa, said Tedesco, 43, got defensive when she confronted him about his no-show work habits. “I did ask him why he wasn’t out working.” Obenauer said. “We argued about it, but I’m not his mother and I’m not his supervisor. “I’ve been doing this for 22 years,” Tedesco bragged, according to Obenauer. a vice president of a global financial firm. “Let the f--king newbies chase these kids from their parties and go to house alarm calls.’’ She said he called the other cops his “assist bitches.” The under-cover operation came to a screeching halt when a suspicious neighbor blew the whistle. Obenauer cooperated with Internal Affairs and says she’s afraid he’ll try to get back at her. She obtained an order of protection to keep him away. Both were in court Friday, where it was renewed. The officer refused to comment when approached in court by a reporter. “I’m very afraid of his retaliation,” Obenauer said. “I’m a prisoner in my own home because of him.’’ Tedesco has filed for retirement while the matter is still under investigation. He has not been charged. Obenauer said the cop had his own key to her lavish waterfront home, where, she said, he’d spend part of his 10-hour shift from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Averaging at least four hours a night for 100 nights at her home, he may have cheated taxpayers out of more than 300 hours’ pay, an estimated $25,000 of his annual $175,000 salary, Obenauer said. Tedesco, who lives with his wife and kids, would use his police car to chauffeur her daughter and deliver ice cream for her kids, she claimed. Tedesco, 43, was suspended after cops compared the neighbor reports with GPS records from his squad car. They showed at least 57 visits, sources said. Obenauer said that when Internal Affairs detectives showed up at her home Feb. 9, she at first though Tedesco had been shot. But the news they delivered was nearly as bad. They said her boyfriend “was a fully married man” with no intention of divorcing his wife. “I was devastated,’’ Obenauer said. “It had been years since I had let a man into our lives. This was an extreme level of betrayal. It was all lies.’’ Tedesco later called her to ask what she told Internal Affairs, she said. “He screamed at me, ‘You f--king tell them that I’m just a friend who stops by once in a while,’ ” Obenauer said. “I told him, ‘They have your GPS records, you moron. I’m not perjuring myself for you. We’re over, and I want my key.’ ” Obenauer said the relationship began last July, while she was struggling with breast-cancer chemotherapy, when another cop came to her home for a routine call and told Tedesco she was good-looking. Later, he allegedly used a story about loud music coming from her house as an excuse to return. About a month later, they began a relationship. Tedesco, who is getting a full pension, was on the Nassau force for 17 years. Before that he had been a New York Housing cop for about four years. kcrowley@nypost.com