Thanks Deedee! Yes I posted that before I started reading. Just got all caught up! From my POV I think Suffolk police are traumatized from the Marty Tankleff case years ago. I mean that was a mess and so they are super careful and stingy with giving media any info about ongoing/active investigations. Hence there reluctance to release 9-11 calls and such. It sucks because the public can be a huge help in investigations. There may be someone out there who knows something but may have missed the one article or whatever that was released.
I would suggest the best way to understand anything about any case in Suffolk County is to first listen to what the PD/DA tells you and think the opposite. The lies they tell are monumental because they know when they are caught there is no DA (Spota) that will prosecute them. Truth is that the DA guides them through the lies.
You do realize in the Tankleff case there was a juror that was accused by two other jurors of improper conduct. This juror was giving hand signals to the ADA about which jurors were against the DAs case. That juror also came into the jury room and told the fellow jurors that Tankleffs own sister was now against him.
Judge Tisch dismissed it all away.
After the conviction the juror and the ADA, and the prosecution team had a round of golf and a round of drinks at the golf course clubhouse.
A few years ago, or many years after the conviction the juror is arrested for mortgage fraud. No problem because the juror has more on them than they have on him. He doesnt have to pay for a lawyer.
In the case of my former son in law the mentally challenged DA/PD had a witness that just happened to be Burkes neighbor tell them on 11/13/03 that the SIL participated in an armed robbery on of a Strathmore Bagel company on 7/25/00. In case you are wondering that Strathmore is the same Strathmore of Tankleff infamy.
The lie stood until at least 7/2/04, or when the witness repeated the lie before Suffolk County Judge James C Hudson, his lawyer, Ray Perini ( see Newsday the Prosecutor and the party boat ), and NO ONE seemed to bother to find whether or not the SIL was even in the country. After 9 months living with that lie with the intention of prosecuting it the morons finally decided maybe we shouldnt rely on his not being able to prove where he was 5 years earlier so why not get his credit card records Were they surprised to find out he was in Europe.
They were going to charge the son in law with that crime which carried a 20 year minimum on conviction. When they realized they were caught they just switched that crime for another crime that never happened.
They are the lowest form of pond scum ever created.