BERGENFIELD — The borough is seeking to have a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former police officer dismissed.

Officer Michael Legregni filed his lawsuit in October 2016 alleging that he faced retaliation for raising concerns about misconduct by other officers, which is considered a violation of the state’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act, also known as the Whistleblower Act.

Legregni in the lawsuit is seeking compensatory damages and protection from retaliation, and most of the disciplinary charges brought against him to be expunged from his record.

Legregni, who was hired in July 2010, said in the lawsuit that he engaged in whistle-blowing activities by disclosing or refusing to participate in instances of official misconduct, aggravated assault, fraud, police misconduct, insurance fraud and falsifying records.

Attorney James Dronzek of Secaucus-based Chasan, Lamparello, Mallon and Cappuzzo filed the motion for summary judgment on July 19 in Bergen County Superior Court to dismiss the lawsuit. A decision is scheduled to be issued on September 13.

A trial date for the case had been set for October 21 after being rescheduled from June 10.

Dronzek did not return calls for comment. Charles Sciarra, the attorney for Legregni, could not be reached for comment. Legregni also could not be reached for comment.

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Legregni alleged in his lawsuit that his superior officers prevented him from reporting reckless driving by a colleague who had crashed his personal vehicle at Roy W. Brown Middle School in July 2014.

He also claimed that the police department conducted a “purported investigation” in December 2014 into an incident two years earlier when a colleague, Officer Michael Dymek, allegedly held a gun to Legregni's head and threatened to kill him. The department deemed the allegation "unfounded."

The complaint also said that in June 2015, Legregni objected to conduct that he called "improper" when then-Capt. Cathy Madalone made overtime available only to Lt. Frank Figel as opposed to the entire department.

Madalone became Bergenfield Police Chief in September 2015 and in May left to take the police chief post in Pacific Grove, California.

The lawsuit says Legregni faced a number of internal affairs complaints and disciplinary charges allegedly as a result of his whistleblowing, including the department's pursuit of disciplinary action to have him removed from the force.

The motion filed by Dronzek seeks dismissal on two grounds.

One is that Legregni did not identify a "law or rule or regulation" that was violated that would back his complaint.

The second is that the gun incident and the overtime issue "do not constitute whistle-blowing activities."

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