Driving Mrs. Kelly (another NY scandal?)

[brooklynite]

For nearly five years, NYPD detectives assigned to protect and drive Police Commissioner Ray Kelly regularly chauffeured his wife on personal trips at taxpayer expense, say detectives with first-hand knowledge of the practice.

Only late last year amidst accusations about State Comptroller Alan Hevesi — who was forced from office in a chauffeuring scandal — did Kelly abruptly end the practice at the NYPD, the detectives said.

“It all has stopped. Completely,” says a detective.

Between 2002, when Kelly returned as commissioner, and late 2006, when the accusations against Hevesi surfaced, plain-clothes detectives from Kelly’s nine-man security detail had driven his wife Veronica in unmarked police cars on hundreds of personal trips about the city, these detectives say.

One detective said the detail drove Mrs. Kelly as many as three or four times a week.

http://nypdconfidential.com/

Ray Kelly has been discussed as a possible successor to Mayor Bloomberg in the 2009 mayoral election, presumably as a Republican candidate.