Jerry Ramrattan claimed to be a police officer, but he wasn’t. He was actually a private investigator who ran a Queens-based firm called Most Wanted Inc. He used his knowledge of law enforcement as a weapon against people who had offended him or his clients in some way.

The allegations tell a story that goes back to the early 1990s: It’s about a man clever enough to use the police as a weapon with the right motivation or for the right price. One of the allegations was that a man served time in prison in 2009 after Ramrattan fabricated robberies because the man owed money to one of Ramrattan’s friends. The man was released after proving he was at a trade show at the time of the robbery. Another man was framed by Ramrattan for a hit-and-run accident in 2007 after the victim’s wife hired Ramrattan’s private detective agency to investigate her husband.

The craziest and oldest story, however, comes from a Queens businessman named Richard Persaud. Persaud was arrested for attempted murder in 1993 after Jerry Ramrattan testified. According to Persaud, Jerry Ramrattan framed him for attempted murder by telling police that Persaud shot Ramrattan in the chest through the open sunroof of his car. Ramrattan did indeed spend some time in the hospital with chest injuries, a collapsed lung, and a broken shoulder, but Persaud insists that Ramrattan was either shot in the chest by someone or shot himself in the chest to frame Persaud for the crime.

Persaud pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of second-degree assault and spent six months in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. Persaud believes Ramrattan fabricated the shooting because by that time one of Persaud’s cousins ​​had started dating Ramrattan and Mr. Persaud had told that cousin not to date Ramrattan. Persaud pleaded guilty to the lesser offense on the advice of his attorney to spare his family, who are first-generation immigrants, from bankruptcy through lengthy legal proceedings.

Voluntarily getting shot, even with a bulletproof vest or some other form of protection, makes the whole story sound crazy enough for a Dick Wolf show. However, the end result of Ramrattan’s accusation against Richard Persaud lends the whole thing some credibility. He is alleged to have framed Persaud for a serious crime and used the legal system as a weapon to exact revenge for a perceived insult. That’s not far from what Ramrattan was trying to do with Seemona Sumasar, herself a first-generation immigrant, and the other people who came forward to tell their story at the time of Ramrattan’s arrest and conviction.

Even after Jerry Ramrattan was found guilty in 2012 on 10 counts, including rape, perjury and conspiracy, he still had supporters in the audience shouting at Sumasar and calling her a liar for her testimony. His mother had to be escorted out of the courtroom after an angry outburst. Despite all of this, he had connections and supporters. Ramrattan used his sentencing to make one final threat against Sumasar. Just before learning of his 32-year furlough courtesy of the New York State prison system, Ramrattan ominously told the court, “I maintain my innocence and intend to turn over motions and other records on Ms. Sumasar. I am not finished yet.”