It's the New York Post  to the rescue of its hometown hero?  The headlines shouts, "16-year-old hooker told friend: I didn't have sex with Taylor."

Lawrence Taylor, football hall of famer, ex star with the New York Giants is in the legal soup with law enforcement in Rockland County, New York. The 16-year-old, whose claims about having sex with ex-Giant star, in a hotel located in that county, that led to a rape charge against him, actually bragged to a friend about making “easy money” because “I didn’t even have to f— him,” a source told The Post.

The friend, who drove with the 16th year old to meet Mr. Taylor, that night, gave a sworn statement, that the girl told her immediately afterward, that Taylor had engaged in masturbation before paying her $300 — not sexual intercourse or oral sex, said the source. If what the friend is saying is true, the source noted, “that clears him of rape-3” — the third-degree rape charge lodged against Mr.Taylor.

The Post reports, the Rockland County prosecutors did not respond to a request for comment. and that Lawrence Taylor’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, declined to comment, yesterday, when this story broke of the sworn statement of 16-year old's "friend." Last week, after Mr Taylor was released on $75,000 bond, Aidala said to the press, L.T. told him -- “I didn’t have sex with anybody, period.”