Ex-cabbie Eric Darko has 'no problem' with Playmate Stephanie Adams' $1.2M payday

Ex-cabbie Eric Darko has 'no problem' with Playmate Stephanie Adams' $1.2M payday

Ex-cabbie Eric Darko has 'no problem' with Playmate Stephanie Adams' $1.2M payday  - The cabbie at the center of an ex-Playboy Playmate’s $1.2 million payoff says he has no problem with her jaw-dropping windfall.

Ex-driver Eric Darko sparked the 2006 confrontation between sultry Stephanie Adams and cops when he told a 911 dispatcher the former bunny was packing heat.

The Playboy covergirl’s ensuing scuffle with officers left her with neck and back injuries that a Manhattan jury decided Tuesday entitled her to more than $1 million from the city.

“I’m not in a position to criticize it,” Darko, 47, told the Daily News Wednesday. “I did not prosecute the case.”

In recent years, the city has coughed up increasing amounts of cash in suits involving improper police conduct.

In fiscal year 2010, the city paid out $56.4 million on 3,546 such suits, up 15% from the previous year, according to the city controller’s office.

Adams — Miss November 1992 and the magazine’s first openly lesbian Playmate — testified that Darko started threatening her after she asked him to drop her off closer to her Chelsea apartment.

She called 911, and Darko did the same, claiming that she was carrying a pistol.

Adams testified that she obeyed the arriving cops’ commands, spreading her arms wide to show she wasn’t carrying.

Still, one of the officers hauled her to the ground even though she was wearing jeans so tight they couldn’t conceal a pack of gum, she said.