The wife of retired Rangers legend Brian Leetch and her sister are hoping to score a plea deal after they allegedly started a brawl at a Manhattan bar and injured three people, their lawyers said Thursday.
Mary Beth Leetch, 49, and her little sister Tracy Murphy, 44, were both relaxed in Manhattan Criminal Court during their mid-morning appearance while their lawyers pushed for prosecutors to make an offer and have the case settled by the end of the month.
“We’re hoping for an [adjournment in contemplation of dismissal]… for disorderly conduct,” attorney Arthur Aidala, who represents Murphy, told The Post after the appearance. Disorderly conduct is a violation, not a crime, and an ACD means the record gets expunged as long as the ladies stay out of trouble for a year.
The women are facing a slew of assault, harassment and criminal mischief charges for a May 2018 melee at Brandy’s Piano Bar on the Upper East Side. They’re accused of attacking three staffers after they were asked to leave for refusing to pay their measly $33 bar tab and singing too loudly, according to witnesses and court papers.
Murphy, who’s married to Rosecliff Capital hedge funder Michael Murphy, is accused of kneeing a barkeep in the groin and her big sis allegedly charged at a female waitress and pulled her hair for recording her with a cell phone, court records show.
The feisty sisters are also accused of ripping the bartender’s shirt, hitting him on the head and leaving him with a gash so bad he needed seven stitches, court papers say.
An order of protection against the women had expired during the course of the case and needed to be renewed on Thursday. They’ll be back in court on Jan. 25 and are expected to accept a plea then.
Brian Leetch, 50, retired in 2007 after 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, 16 of them with the Rangers. One of the team’s most popular players, he was a key member of the 1994 Stanley Cup champions and his No. 2 was retired to the rafters of Madison Square Garden in 2008. In 2009, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.