Daily News | Family claims a top FOP official tried to scam a police officer’s widow out of $20,000
It was a cool, dreary day in January, and Diaz was trying to scrape together money to host a baby shower for her 20-year-old son, who was expecting his first child.
Diaz later repeatedly begged Reid to repay the loans, which Diaz estimated had totaled more than $20,000. But Reid — whose total compensation as the union’s trustee and disability coordinator was $189,000 — often didn’t respond to Diaz’s pleas. FOP president John McNesby told The Inquirer that he was left “speechless” when he learned of Zito’s account, and believed his only recourse was to fire Reid from the union.
“This whole situation has me very nervous, scared, and disappointed,” said Zito, who lives with her husband and her maternal grandmother in Clearwater, Fla. “It makes me feel like I can’t trust the police department. … I am still mourning the loss of my mother, and reliving this horror story all over again. It’s very overwhelming.
“Meagan and Ray were like the best couple ever,” said Michelle Pickup, who grew up with Meagan in Kensington. “You could see the love they had for each other.” Diaz was discharged the following day, and doctors prescribed him hydromorphone, a powerful opioid. A few days later, Diaz’s wife couldn’t wake him. He was pronounced dead at Nazareth Hospital.“When he died,” Pickup said of Meagan, “it destroyed her.”
After reading an email from Zito that outlined her allegations against Reid, he said, the union examined records for any survivors’ fund disbursements made to the Diaz family, to see if money had been misappropriated.Even with assistance from the FOP, Meagan Diaz struggled to reorient her life after her husband’s death.
“Terry knew that Meagan was weak,” Murray said. “She clung to Meagan because she knew Meagan was a kindhearted person.” “I know you’ve help so much [sic] I can pay this back in about two weeks or more,” Reid wrote. “I get my bonus first week in December.” In May, lawyers for the condominium sought a court order compelling the Reids to respond to the suit, under penalty of arrest, after they ignored several subpoenas. A judge granted the order.
She texted Reid that, if she had known she wouldn’t receive the additional benefit, “I wouldn’t have lent any money out. I did lend a lot to you.” The next day, Murray, Diaz’s other daughter, Lexi Negron, and her best friend, Karen Laude, were gathered on a sectional sofa in her house. A family friend, who happened to be a former Philadelphia police officer, was also there. The friend’s cell phone rang. It was Terry Reid.
“A couple times I went to grab the phone,” Murray said, “and she wouldn’t give it back.” When one of them finally snatched the phone from Reid, the text history between Diaz and Reid — stretching back to October, when Diaz had purchased the phone — was gone.Two days later, Zito said, Reid called her phone repeatedly. Zito didn’t answer. Then she heard a pounding on her mother’s front door. She opened it, and found Reid.
With Reid still standing in front of the locked door, Zito felt trapped. “So of course, I’m like, ‘Yes,” Zito said. “She almost fell to her knees.”Zito and her siblings were determined to make Reid pay back what she owed their mother.
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