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An ex-NYPD officer awaiting trial for allegedly paying her boyfriend to kill her estranged husband failed on Tuesday to convince a judge to release her from jail to avoid catching coronavirus.
Central Islip federal Judge Sandra Feuerstein was not swayed by Valerie Cincinelli’s argument that she is at high risk for catching COVID-19 because she works in the laundry facility at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center — noting that the former cop was not tasked with handling inmates’ dirty clothes.
“She voluntarily took the job,” the judge said. “She was folding clean laundry.”
Feuerstein also said the circumstances of the case haven’t changed since Cincinelli asked for bail following her shocking arrest last year in the alleged murder-for-hire plot.
Cincinelli, 35, is accused of paying boyfriend John DiRubba $7,000 to bump off both estranged hubby Isaiah Carvalho Jr. and DiRubba’s own teenage daughter.
But the 12-year NYPD veteran has argued that she intended to give the money to DiRubba so he could use it to buy gold coins, as she had done in the past.
DiRubba was arrested in January 2019 for the gunpoint robbery of a $54,000 diamond ring from his gold coin dealer — in which the purported mob wannabe threatened to kill the victim while spouting off about his connections with the Gambino crime family.
DiRubba ended up copping to a violation and was ordered to pay restitution, court records show. Cincinelli was collared after DiRubba — who ran an Orange County bakery that served as a hangout for TV wiseguys Vincent Pastore and Tony Lip — dropped a dime on his lover.
DiRubba told authorities that Cincinelli wanted to have Carvalho killed because of a custody battle over the couple’s two children.
Cincinelli was not present for her bail hearing, which was held by teleconference.
As of Tuesday, four inmates at MDC and 13 staff have tested positive for coronavirus.
James Kousouros, Cincinelli’s attorney, said Cincinelli is not among the confirmed cases. He said he was disappointed with Feuerstein’s ruling on the bail application.
“Working in the laundry room, she is exposed,” Kousourus said. “Whether it’s voluntary is not the point.”
