The New York Police Department officer who accused of paying her boyfriend to hire a hit man to kill her estranged husband also ordered him to murder his own daughter.
Valerie Cincinelli, 34, a mother of two and NYPD employee since 2007, was arrested Friday by the FBI after she allegedly paid her boyfriend $7,000 to put out the hit.
The New York Post identified the boyfriend as John DiRubba, 54, “a bald-headed, tracksuit-wearing accused felon whose Orange County bakery was a hangout for TV tough guys Tony Lip and Vincent Pastore of ‘The Sopranos.'”
“Run her the f— over,” Cincinelli reportedly told DiRubba, whose daughter was, she said, “getting in the way” of the relationship.
In May, according to court documents, she told DiRubba “to have the hitman kill Jane Doe over the weekend and then wait a week or a month to kill John Doe.”
DiRubba decided not to go through with the murders and got the help of the FBI to wear a wire and fake the crime. The FBI made a mock-up picture of the crime scene showing Cincinelli’s husband dead. DiRubba used the photo to convince his girlfriend that the hit was successful.
Cincinelli and DiRubba had an explosive on-and-off-again relationship. In 2018, Cincinelli reportedly called her boyfriend in violation of a court protection order. After being arrested for harassment and criminal contempt, Cincinelli called DiRubba again and said: “You ruined my life. You’ll see what happens to you. You better keep your mouth shut. I hope your daughter dies.” In another incident, she pulled a gun on DiRubba.
DiRubba has his own rap sheet complete with felony grand larceny and a plea deal in which he admitted to receiving stolen property.
Cincinelli, who has been charged with conspiracy to murder, was already on modified assignment with the NYPD since 2017 because of domestic incidents involving both DiRubba and her estranged husband.
Cincinelli’s husband, Isaiah Carvalho Jr., said he did not learn that his ex-wife planned to kill him until “everybody else” found out in the news. His attorney Matt Weiss said that “all things considered, he sounds OK.”
