The NYPD is reeling after the arrest of two senior commanders as more charges are expected to other top cops.
CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer reported that Deputy Inspector James Grant and Deputy Chief Michael Harrington were arrested on charges of accepting expensive gifts from two politically connected businessmen, including a trip to Las Vegas on a private jet.
Sources told CBS2’s Kramer that more charges are expected at the NYPD involving senior people. They include conflicts of interest charges, department charges and the specter of additional arrests.
So far, nearly a dozen cops have been removed from their posts as the investigation proceeds.
The case against Grant and Harrington centers around two Orthodox Jewish businessmen who are also linked to probes of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s fundraising.
The two reportedly showered the top cops with lavish gifts in exchange for influence, ticket fixing and favors.
“They got a private police force for themselves and their friends – effectively they got cops on call,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Monday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was so irritated over the reported closing of one lane of the Lincoln Tunnel and a police escort to expedite the trip of a visiting businessman that he demanded a full investigation of the Port Authority’s involvement.
“The NYPD has no jurisdiction within the tunnels boundaries,” Cuomo said. “If members of the Port Authority participated in any fashion – through purpose or neglect – that State will deliver immediate and severe consequences.”
Sources said the investigations started with calls to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs tip line. The first call was received in 2012, but the investigation didn’t pick up speed for a few years.
(Source: WCBSTV)
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Where was Cuomo by the closing of the GWB by Christie gang?
Why didn’t he ask an investigation then ?
Corupt corupt corupt
Much ado about nothing.
Cuomo is right, the PA controls the tunnels so the NYPD cops actually had ZERO right to close it, which means they were trespassing and impersonating a cop, serious charges.
One chillul Hashem after another. This has got to stop. Come on Yidden! You know when your doing something wrong. It’s simple – if you don’t want what you are doing something questionable that you would not want to come to the light of the public, it is virtually certain that you are doing something wrong. Nobody is perfect, but c’mon! these stories come out almost daily. It has got to stop! and, yes, “they” hate us, no matter what. Do we need to give them more and more fodder for their hatred? Do we need to give the more and more “proof” that their accusations and slander of the Jews is justified. This has got to stop! Interesting Targum Yonasan ben Uzziel on the Aseres Hadibros; Lo Signov (freely translated) “My Nation, Benei Yisrael, do not be thieves, not friends of thieves, not partners with thieves; and thieves should not be seen in Knesses Yisrael, so that your children when they grow up should not learn to associate with thieves – because for the sin of geneiva, hunger descends upon the world.” He interprets the other four “los” similarly. He was a tanna,and the world shook when he introduced his targum, He “probably” knew what he was talking about. Please, this has got to stop!
Moshe B.
You do know that לא תגנוב is talking about kidnapping?.