The federal trial started Wednesday for the Paterson police sergeant accused of being the “ringleader” of a group of corrupt cops who stole money from residents across the city over multiple years. Sgt. Michael Cheff, currently suspended from the department, faces charges of conspiring to deprive an individual of civil rights under the color of law and falsifying a police report followinghis arrest in 2020. Federal prosecutors have identified Cheff as the supervisor for five patrol officers who roamed the streets of Paterson from 2016 to 2018, targeting residents and illegally stopping and sea…