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Single mom who had affair with cop suing police department for $10 MILLION because she blames THEM since her trysts happened while he was on duty

By Meghan Keneally

Published: 13:52 EDT, 13 July 2012 | Updated: 14:35 EDT, 13 July 2012



A single mom is now suing her local police department for $10million because she had an affair with a married officer while he was on duty.

Tara Obenauer, a 42-year-old exotic dancer-turned-financial analyst, feels that New York's Nassau County and the police department were negligent because they enabled now-retired officer Mike Tedesco to come over to her house repeatedly while working his shift.

'I'm not his mother and I'm not his supervisor,' she said explaining her rationale for why the government should pay because she had an affair. Happier times: Officer Mike Tedesco (left) carried on a seven-month affair with Tara Obenauer (right) who is now suing the police department because she blames them for not keeping better tabs on him while he was working

She said that she did not know what Mr Tedesco was happily married while they were in the midst of their seven month affair.

The romance ended when she found out that he was not in the process of divorcing his wife, and she has 'suffered severe...emotional and psychological damages' ever since.

In the height of their affair, Ms Obernauer says that she and the on-duty cop spent over 100 nights together at her home in Massapequa.

'There were times that it was a source of contention and I made comments to him: "Aren’t you supposed to be out there, you know, working?" Because it would accumulate up to at least four hours during a shift that he would be at my home,' she told CBS New York. Not joking around now: Ms Obenauer (right) said that Mr Tedesco (left) would park his patrol car in her driveway and would wear his uniform and carry his gun during his visits to her Long Island home Seeking compensation: Ms Obenauer, who used to earn up to $1,000 per night when she worked as an exotic dancer in the early 1990s, feels that $10million will be sufficient for her emotional distress

Since he had fellow officers cover him on calls, police officials only became aware of Mr Tedesco's alternative activities after a neighbor called them saying that she regularly saw a patrol car parked in Ms Obenauer's drive.

Mr Tedesco then became the subject of an internal investigation and soon she was being questioned about their relationship.

'My head was spinning. I couldn’t believe that I had two police officers in my home regarding an investigation against a police officer that was a man my children and I grew to love and trusted,' she told CBS.

Shortly after that interview, The New York Post reports that Ms Obenauer received an irate phone call from Mr Tedesco who screamed 'don't f*** with my family, don't f*** with my livelihood!' Sticking together? Mike Tedesco arrived at court arm-in-arm with an unidentified woman thought to be his wife Suspicious: Neighbors called the police department because they thought it was unusual that a patrol car was parked in Obenauer's Massapequa driveway so often

She now has a restraining order against him, and has since turned her attention to the County.

'I think this is a claim that just about defies imagination,' Nassau County attorney John Ciampoli told The Post.

'I just think it’s rather ironic that she’s filing a notice of claim against the county because, based on what has been reported in the press, she was receiving from the county Police Department a lot more than others were receiving.'

Ms Obenauer's understanding of the law may have been more thorough if she pursued a different path: as a 21-year-old recent college graduate in 1992, she was quoted by The New York Times as saying that she opted to pass up law school because she was making so much money as an exotic dancer in a gentleman's club.

'I can make $1,000 a night or more, if I really work at it,' she told the paper at the time.








