A former NYPD lieutenant who was fired after pleading guilty at departmental trial to receiving $100,000 for hours he did not work — mostly in fraudulent overtime — will not go to prison as long as he is not rearrested, a Manhattan judge said this week.

Prosecutors said Thomas Fabrizi was sentenced Tuesday to a conditional discharge in his grand larceny case. His sentencing and previously unreported firing come amid continued scrutiny over the NYPD’s high overtime costs and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s moves to address corruption within the department's ranks .

Fabrizi declined to comment Thursday when reached by phone, and his lawyer did not respond to an inquiry about the case. He pleaded guilty to the felony charge in court early last month, according to the Manhattan distr

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