Mistress blames county for affair with cop, and more

The former mistress of a Nassau County police officer says his supervisors should have stopped him from sleeping with her.

Mistress blames county for affair with cop

The former mistress of a Nassau County, N.Y., police officer is suing the county, claiming his supervisors should have stopped him from sleeping with her. Tara Obenauer, 42, a Wall Street executive, says the department was “negligent” for not knowing Officer Mike Tedesco often visited her home while on duty, and that the affair caused her “severe and substantial emotional damage.” A lawyer for the county said the claim “defies imagination.”

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