Via NYDN:

Three members of the NYPD and a prominent fund-raiser for Mayor de Blasio were busted Monday morning for corruption charges and bribery — including a free hooker — in exchange for doing favors for politically connected businessmen, court papers say.

FBI agents and cops arrested Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant, and Sgt. David Villanueva, court records show.

Harrington was the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Manhattan North. Grant was the commanding officer of the 19th Precinct on the Upper East Side. Villanueva was assigned to the gun licensing division.

In a case built largely with cooperating witnesses and wiretaps, Jeremy Reichberg, a Brooklyn-based diamond merchant and prominent de Blasio fund-raiser, was also arrested, sources said.

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