No attempt at an exhaustive list -- just what I happen to come upon when in the mood/have time/near computer to post. Perhaps fairness suggests posts about CJ officers killed in action. But this blog is not a summary of what is going on in the world. Just what I come across when inclined to post.
Sept 16, 2024 (Date reported NYPost)
Two retired FDNY fire chiefs were slapped with a federal
indictment Monday for allegedly accepting $190,000 in bribes – the latest
high-profile corruption case to hit Mayor Eric Adams’ increasingly beleaguered
administration.
Anthony Saccavino and Brian Cordasco – once the two top
highest ranking members in the FDNY’s Bureau of Fire Prevention – formed a
crooked “secret partnership” with a retired firefighter to fast track
inspections in exchange for bribes, according to the indictment filed in
Manhattan federal court.
The retired smoke-eater-turned-businessman, Henry Santiago
Jr., personally delivered bribe payments by cash and checks to the pair during
steakhouse dinners in Manhattan and, brazenly, at the fire prevention bureau’s
Brooklyn office, court papers state.
3FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Brian Cordasco on February 7,
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The nearly two-year scheme involved roughly 30 different
projects across the Big Apple — including fire alarm checks at apartment
buildings, restaurants, bars and hotels, court filings state.
“They allegedly created a VIP lane for faster service that
could only be accessed with bribes,” said Damian Williams, US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York.
“That’s classic pay-to-play corruption.”
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3Cordasco and Anthony Saccavino (above) allegedly accepted
more than $190,000 in bribes.Brigitte Stelzer
Saccavino had schemed with Santiago, a close friend, as
early as 2020, two years before Adams took office, about partnering in a
fire safety business serving commercial and residential building owners in the
city, according to the indictment.
By 2021, Santiago had converted his pre-existing hospitality
and nightlife business into a fire safety company, with Saccovino and Cordasco
as secret partners, court papers state.
Around this time, Saccovino and Cordasco were promoted by
then-FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh – a move that unfolded as she demoted
three other chiefs and sparked a mutiny among the top ranks.
Jan 11, 2024 (Date)
Not as consequential as some police bad actions but aggravating.
An NYPD detective serving in Commissioner Edward Caban’s office was arrested Saturday for shoplifting at a Home Depot on Long Island, authorities said. Detective Specialist Cristina Cancel, 54, allegedly snatched $160 worth of merchandise off the shelves of the home improvement store in Deer Park, according to Suffolk County police. Cancel — who raked in more than $150,000 last year — is accused of stealing $130 in merchandise around 10:15 a.m., and then $30 more just before noon.
The alleged sticky-fingered cop had been serving within the Police Commissioner’s Office since July, the same month Caban was tapped to lead the NYPD. In 2015, Cancel was disciplined by the department for using another officer’s password to search the NYPD’s database for personal reasons. She lost 10 days of vacation for the incident.
Dec 21, 2023 (Date)
A New Jersey police lieutenant swiped cocaine and fentanyl from the county prosecutor’s evidence room — then tried to return the drugs in “substantially different” condition after higher-ups began asking questions about what he was doing, state authorities alleged Tuesday.
Kevin T. Matthew, 47, of Cedar Grove, also allegedly made a “series of cash deposits” at several banks on different days to avoid the financial institutions’ federal requirement to report transactions of more than $10,000, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. Two razor blades were found in his office at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and later tested positive for cocaine, state prosecutors alleged.
Although authorities didn’t say exactly what they thought the cop was doing with the drugs, they wrote in the criminal complaint that his actions were “taken with the purpose to benefit himself by personal use, personal financial profit or concealing his misconduct.” “As alleged, the defendant’s conduct constitutes a shocking and brazen disregard of the law by a high-ranking officer who was sworn to uphold the law,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a statement.
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Six former correctional officers at a West Virginia jail are facing federal charges in the death of an inmate who was assaulted by a group of guards and died last year, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The inmate, Quantez Burks, 37, had been at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., for less than a day on March 1, 2022, when he was beaten by a group of officers and died the same day, said Matt Harman, a lawyer for Mr. Burks’s family.
According to the indictment, which identified Mr. Burks only by his initials, an officer had called for help after Mr. Burks “tried to push past a correctional officer” while going from a jail pod to a hallway.
Mr. Burks was then taken by three officers to a “blind spot” inside the jail that was not monitored by security cameras, according to charging documents. There, they assaulted him “in retaliation” for trying to get past the officer, prosectors said.
Nov. 29 (Date)
AG Merrick Garland announces bombshell charges against police officers involved in the search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor. He says defendants "took steps to cover up their unlawful conduct" and "met in a garage where they agreed to tell ... a false story." The DoJ alleges three officers — Joshua Jaynes, Kelly Goodlett, and Kyle Meany — conspired to issue an unlawful search warrant for Breonna Taylor's home and then covered it up. It also alleges one officer, Brett Hankison, violated Taylor's civil rights.
Comment: The officers deserve to be punished for what they did. I gotta ask, what were they thinking?
Oct 27 NYPost (Date)
A Rikers Island correction officer didn’t realize his body cam was on — and filmed himself planting a pointed shard of Plexiglas in an inmate’s cell and then pretending he found it, officials say.
Dionisio Rosario, 33, has been charged with four counts of first-degree falsifying business records, six counts of second-degree falsifying business records and two counts of official misconduct, according to a statement from the Bronx District Attorney’s Office on Friday, when it announced the indictment against the suspect.
Rosario — who has worked in the city’s Department of Corrections for seven years — unintentionally engaged his camera while “conducting a search inside of Robert N. Davoren Center” and getting into a scrape with an inmate, the DA’s office said.
The officer was ‘involved in a use of force with an inmate” during the search, authorities said. After the tussle, the staffer was caught on his own body-worn camera grabbing the sharpened 4-inch object and entering the inmate’s cell, they said.
He then placed the sharpened plexiglass underneath “a piece of paper by the sink area,” an investigation by the DA’s office allegedly found.
Grace Rosa Baez, 37, and Cesar Martinez, 43, were charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin and narcotics distribution.
"Grace Rosa Baez took an oath to protect and serve the people of New York City. As alleged, she flagrantly violated that oath by pushing poison, including fentanyl and heroin, which are driving the nation's deadly opioid crisis and have been responsible for thousands of tragic deaths in this city and around the nation. My Office and our law enforcement partners will continue to aggressively pursue those peddling these deadly poisons - no matter who they are," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said.
Oct 22 ABC
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A female NYPD officer who boasted about how much she loved her job was busted this week for allegedly dealing large quantities of narcotics, including fentanyl and heroin, while on duty, federal officials said. A NYPD officer and the man she lived with were arrested for distributing fentanyl and heroin Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York announced the charges against them Friday.
Baez, of the Bronx, had been a police officer with the NYPD for more than a decade. At the time of her arrest, she had been living with Martinez in an apartment. The nature of their relationship was not immediately made clear.
From 2012 up until the date of her arrest, Baez had been employed as a police officer with the NYPD. In 2020, the NYPD began to investigate Baez following accusations of misconduct, and she was placed on modified duty.
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Oct 12 NYTimes (Date)
The employees of the Broward Sheriff’s Office were charged in separate cases of wire fraud in connection with collecting money from the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan, Markenzy Lapointe, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announced at a news conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday.
Sheriff Gregory Tony of Broward County said that the deputies facing charges represented “a cross-section of multiple disciplines” within his agency. Eight of them, including a sergeant, work in the law enforcement department, and nine, also including a sergeant, are assigned to the department of detention.
Katrina Brown, 46.
According to the indictment, Brown applied for and received two PPP loans on behalf of herself as a sole proprietor, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with her applications.
In addition, Brown submitted an application to the SBA for an EIDL that contained materially false information, including, among other things, the borrower’s gross revenues, cost of goods sold, and number of employees.
Brown has been with BSO since 2016 working for the Department of Detention.
Alexandra Acosta, 37.
According to the indictment, Acosta applied for and received a PPP loan on behalf of herself as a sole proprietor, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with her application. Acosta has been with BSO since 2013.
La’Keitha Victoria Lawhorn, 41.
According to the indictment, Lawhorn applied for and received three PPP loans on behalf of herself and her company, Home Empire Enterprises, LLC, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s average monthly payroll and annual gross receipts, as well as falsified IRS tax forms submitted with her applications.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Lawhorn sought forgiveness of the fraudulent PPP loans she received.
Lawhorn has been with BSO since 2007.
Jewell Farrell Johnson, 46.
According to the indictment, Johnson applied for and received two PPP loans, one on behalf of herself as a sole proprietor and one on behalf of LRJ Enterprises of South Florida, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s average monthly payroll, as well as falsified IRS tax forms submitted with her applications.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Johnson sought forgiveness of the fraudulent PPP loans she received. Additionally, Johnson allegedly applied for a loan through the EIDL program for her company, G.I.G Productions LLC, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s annual gross revenue in 2019.
Johnson has been with BSO since 2017 working for the Department of Detention.
Carolyn Denise Wade, 48.
According to the indictment, Wade applied for and received a PPP loan on behalf of herself as a sole proprietor based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with her application.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Wade sought forgiveness of the PPP loan she received.
Wade has been with BSO since 2002 working for the Department of Detention.
Rorie Brown, 42.
According to the indictment, Brown applied for and received one PPP loan on behalf of himself as the sole proprietor, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2020, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
In addition, Brown submitted an application to the SBA for an EIDL that contained materially false information, including, among other things, the borrower’s gross revenues, cost of goods sold, and number of employees.
Browan has been with BSO since 2005.
Alexis Monique Greene, 47.
According to the indictment, Greene applied for and received two PPP loans based upon materially false information about the borrower’s gross income and purpose for the loan, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with her applications.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Greene sought forgiveness of the PPP loans she received.
Greene has been with BSO since 2007 working in the Department of Detention.
Ritchie Noah Dubuisson, 25.
According to the indictment, Dubuisson applied for and received a PPP loan based upon materially false information about the borrower’s gross income and purpose for the loan, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Dubuisson sought forgiveness of the PPP loan he received.
Dubuisson has been with BSO since 2019 working for the Department of Detention.
Keshondra Tameisha Davis, 37.
According to the indictment, Davis applied for and received a PPP loan based upon materially false information about the borrower’s gross income for the year 2019 and purpose for the loan, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with her application.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Davis sought forgiveness of the PPP loans she received.
Davis has been with BSO since 2016 in the Department of Detention.
Allen Dorvil, 33.
According to the indictment, Dorvil applied for and received a PPP loan based upon materially false information about the borrower’s gross income and purpose for the loan, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
The indictment further alleges that, as part of the fraud scheme, Dorvil sought forgiveness of the PPP loan he received.
Dorvil has been with BSO since 2017.
Jean Pierre-Toussant, 35.
According to the indictment, Pierre-Toussant applied for and received one PPP loan on behalf of himself as a sole proprietor based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
Pierre-Toussant has been with BSO since 2017.
Ancy Morancy, 33.
According to the indictment, Morancy applied for and received one PPP loan on behalf of himself as the sole proprietor of Moore Services Investment Group, LLC, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
Morancy, a sergeant with the Department of Detention, has been with BSO since 2016
Marcus Errol Powell, 37.
According to the indictment, Powell applied for and received one PPP loan on behalf of himself as the sole proprietor of Bonvivant Industries, LLC, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2020, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
Powell has been with BSO since 2016.
Derrick J. Nesbitt, 46.
According to the indictment, Nesbitt applied for and received two PPP loans on behalf of himself as the sole proprietor of Designer Life, LLC, based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
Nesbitt has been with BSO since 2002.
Keith Dunkley, 46.
According to the information, Dunkley conspired to cause the submission of false and fraudulent applications and received funds for one PPP loan and one EIDL on behalf of himself as a sole proprietor and for Global Group Alliances, LLC, which applications included materially false information about, among other things, the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application.
Dunkley was hired by BSO in 2007.
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According to the indictment, Anthony applied for and received one PPP loan on behalf of himself as a sole proprietor based upon materially false information about the borrower’s total gross business income for the year 2019, as well as a falsified IRS tax form submitted with his application. In addition, Anthony unsuccessfully applied for a second PPP loan using the same false information.
Anthony, a sergeant, was hired by BSO in 2001.
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