“Nine-one,” Officer Franklin Mata calls out on a crackling radio transmission replayed for jurors today in the so-called “rape cops” trial.
It’s cop-talk for “job done; condition corrected.” Trouble is, Mata and partner Officer Kenneth Moreno were far from done with the drunken fashion exec they’d been called help out of a taxi cab outside her East Village apartment two years ago, according to the latest evidence in the sensational trial.
As proven in sidewalk surveillance video screened in Manhattan Supreme Court today and yesterday, the two cops would make three more visits to the woman’s home over the ensuing five hours
On the last visit, prosecutors say, Moreno would rape the passed out 28-year-old on her bed as, on the other side of the bedroom wall, Mata sat waiting on a couch.
“That means, ‘condition corrected,’ or ‘no crime committed,’ Eddie Rodriguez of the NYPD communications division told jurors this morning of Mata’s statement, “Nine-one.”
The next voice on the tape is the dispatcher, a woman who crisply answers, “Ten-four.”
“The job would be closed out,” Rodriguez told jurors.
“The job is done?” asked prosecutor Randolph Clarke.
“Yes,” Rodriguez answered.
Prosecutors accuse the pair of cops of lying in paperwork and in further radio transmissions to cover their tracks on the next three visits.
Moreno’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, told jurors in opening statements that his client, a recovering alcoholic, only returned to the woman’s apartment to check on her condition and “counsel” her on the dangers of drinking.



