HudsonReporter.com – By:Madeline Friedman – Reporter staff writer
Now a ‘real’ woman, Lt. Aiello talks about life after Hoboken PD
In the spring of 1995, Hoboken motorcycle police officer John Aiello told his superiors that when he returned from his leave, it would be as a woman named Janet.
Rumors of the situation began circulating around the mile-square city, but police officials refused to confirm them for the press. Finally, in July of 1995, the New York Post landed an interview with Aiello, then slapped the officer’s photo on their cover with the headline, “Sex-op cop fights for job.”