Lingerie cop settles with Edison for more than $200K

EDISON -- The township has agreed to settle a legal battle stemming from a 2012 incident, which coined the Edison officer involved the lingerie cop after he admitted to showing up at an area hotel in uniform and asking a woman to model underwear.

"I was approached by counsel for officer Anthony Sarni with whom there has been a tremendous amount of litigation over the years," town attorney William Northgrave said during the Dec. 14 council meeting. "If you approve these agreements tonight all issues with Officer Sarni are behind us."

"He would go away," he said.

Sarni, 42, will retire as part of the settlement resolving two lawsuits related to the patrolman's suspension in 2013 and his firing last year as a result of his involvement in what came to be known in the department as the "lingerie episode."

Sarni was on the job responding to a fire alarm call when the incident first started and later off-duty but still in full uniform with his sidearm as the encounter continued, according to Internal Affair documents.

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