Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

jfitzgib@lohud.com





WHITE PLAINS – A city parking enforcement officer wanted a 21-year-old woman to perform "ten future acts of oral sex" to fix a $20 parking ticket, according to a City Court complaint filed Wednesday.

Mario Carpenito Jr., 61, is now facing a charge of third-degree bribe receiving, a felony, in the Nov. 19 incident, which police said ended when the woman declined the seedy offer — and later reported it.

Carpenito, a seven-year veteran of the White Plains Parking Department, was arrested Friday and released on bail. He was back in court Wednesday before Judge Jo Ann Fria, but declined to comment.

His lawyer, Michael Romano, also would not comment other than to say Carpenito had an excellent and clean record on the job and was the only member of the department to have received its certificate of excellence.

"All of his performance reviews were classified as exceptional," Romano said. "There have been no prior complaints of official misconduct, sexual or otherwise."

According to the complaint filed by White Plains police, Carpenito, of Thornwood, made the shady proposition to the woman on East Post Road after writing her a summons for being parked at an expired meter at 9:30 a.m.

Carpenito "then rescinded said summons but only in exchange for (the woman) performing ten future acts of oral sex on him," the complaint said.

He was suspended without pay and is free on $1,000 bail pending a court appearance on Jan. 7.

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