It looks like Eric Holder is going to get away with running guns into Mexico but not the expendable lackeys that make up the NYPD. The system has throw a group of active and retired NYPD police officers from the 68th precinct under the bus in this gun running, slot machine and cigarettes smuggling scheme. A group of NYPD cops were busted in a sting operation for smuggling illegal guns and supposedly stolen slot machines, cigarettes and counterfeit goods, the feds said Tuesday. A criminal complaint details schemes by a cabal at Brooklyn’s 68th Precinct to betray their badges with help from on-the-job cops, retired officers and civilian pals. “The complaint describes how a group of crime fighters took to moonlighting as criminals,” Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said. “How a gang of police officers who should have been keeping guns off the street instead smuggled 20 firearms into the city, and how a number of men once charged with enforcing the law are now charged with breaking it.” Mayor Bloomberg said if the charges prove to be true “it would be a disgraceful and deplorable betrayal of the public trust.” The allegedly corrupt cops were snared by a confidential informant on the FBI payroll – and caught on tape hatching and carrying out the off-duty misdeeds. “I’m getting a good army set up here,” Officer William Masso, 47, bragged to the informant about his growing crew, according to one recording. Prosecutors say Masso was the ringleader and met the informant in late <b>…</b>