THE SPOTA TRIAL...assuming he goes to trial.

[hawkshaw]

Joint Task Force is going to crack the case. Hmmm.. I had my pick right after the GB4 were found

 

[GlimmerTwins]

Pete "hawkshaw" alerted me to this amazing Newsday article published just a few days ago. LISK could be a loner, or could be a group of people protected by the powerful; anyone who thinks the latter situation couldn't possibly happen doesn't quote understand what Long Island is like - this article will fill you in on how bad it is. A drunk off-duty cop shoots an innocent cab-driver, and both Nassau and Suffolk do everything they can, for more than a decade, to lie about it and sweep it under the rug. It's a great sign, I think, that Newsday is showing some grit. There can only be more eye-opening stories like this to come. Thanks, Pete, for the heads up!

An off-duty cop shot an innocent cab driver. A decade-long ‘cover-up of a cover-up’ followed.

Bruce Barket defended the cop.

 

[PreciousDust]

Bruce Barket defended the cop.

I noticed that, yes.

 

[hawkshaw]

I noticed that, yes.

Nothing wrong with that

 

[PreciousDust]

Nothing wrong with that

I agree, a defense attorney defends (though they do get to choose who their clients will be). Here, defending this shooter, it seems a tough row to hoe.

 

[GlimmerTwins]

Joint Task Force is going to crack the case. Hmmm.. I had my pick right after the GB4 were found

Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force =
FBI
NY State Police
SCPD Homicide Squad (ask Stuart Namm about them apples)
SCDA ( DA was just put in prison on Dec. 10 along with Chief of Anti-Corruption) ask Bellone how dirty the DA's office is)
Suffolk County Sherrif's office (ever hear of Eddie Walsh?)

Brewer told MacKay that he never was questioned by the FBI, nor Pak. Brewer told MacKay that the SCPD were his lawyers.
Spota Burke & McPartland were known as "the Administration."


"While Burke was clearly one leader of the criminal activity, a criminal activity can have multiple leaders and organizers," Azrack wrote. "Spota’s position as District Attorney and McPartland’s high-level position in the D.A.’s office are relevant to, but not dispositive of, this enhancement."

During closing argument at the trial, prosecutors argued that Spota was the "CEO" of the conspiracy while McPartland, Spota’s former right-hand man, was the scheme’s "chief operating officer" as they broke the law they were supposed to enforce.

The Administration defended their concealed criminal activities from exposure (remember the Burke trial?) Remember the Spota/McPartland trial? They received an upward departure because the judge said in her filing that both Spota and McPartland were "organizer(s) or leader(s) of a criminal activity" that also involved more people.

Spota/Burke is a classic criminal enterprise carried out through wide-ranging criminal activities, including but not limited to, *advertiser censored* (Burke DVD's), internet hacking, stalking (Risco Mention-Lewis et others), mail fraud, phone hacking, installing evesdropping pin hole cameras and tapping phones (Ever hear the story of Loretty Lynch blowing a gasket when she listened to the wires that Spota, McPartland and Constant brought to her in Washington?), gps'ing cars to stalk enemies, theft and Burke threatened to kill his police if they "went off the reservation and tipped to the Feds" so much that officers bolted from Burke's paranoid and violent rage and RAN to the Feds. Hickey, the star linchpin, of the trial, as he was the government witness, was so stressed out that he almost died of alcohol poisoning from drinking to the point of no return.

When Burke and Spota sensed a threat of exposure, they lied, attacked, intimidated any perceived threat by the means of threatening the lives of his "palace guards."

Do you really think Suffolk County is going to investigate their own?

Ink bought by the barrel, yadda yadda yah.

 

[GlimmerTwins]

Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force =
FBI
NY State Police
SCPD Homicide Squad (ask Stuart Namm about them apples)
SCDA ( DA was just put in prison on Dec. 10 along with Chief of Anti-Corruption) ask Bellone how dirty the DA's office is)
Suffolk County Sherrif's office (ever hear of Eddie Walsh?)

Brewer told MacKay that he never was questioned by the FBI, nor Pak. Brewer told MacKay that the SCPD were his lawyers.
Spota Burke & McPartland were known as "the Administration."


"While Burke was clearly one leader of the criminal activity, a criminal activity can have multiple leaders and organizers," Azrack wrote. "Spota’s position as District Attorney and McPartland’s high-level position in the D.A.’s office are relevant to, but not dispositive of, this enhancement."

During closing argument at the trial, prosecutors argued that Spota was the "CEO" of the conspiracy while McPartland, Spota’s former right-hand man, was the scheme’s "chief operating officer" as they broke the law they were supposed to enforce.

The Administration defended their concealed criminal activities from exposure (remember the Burke trial?) Remember the Spota/McPartland trial? They received an upward departure because the judge said in her filing that both Spota and McPartland were "organizer(s) or leader(s) of a criminal activity" that also involved more people.

Spota/Burke is a classic criminal enterprise carried out through wide-ranging criminal activities, including but not limited to, *advertiser censored* (Burke DVD's), internet hacking, stalking (Risco Mention-Lewis et others), mail fraud, phone hacking, installing evesdropping pin hole cameras and tapping phones (Ever hear the story of Loretty Lynch blowing a gasket when she listened to the wires that Spota, McPartland and Constant brought to her in Washington?), gps'ing cars to stalk enemies, theft and Burke threatened to kill his police if they "went off the reservation and tipped to the Feds" so much that officers bolted from Burke's paranoid and violent rage and RAN to the Feds. Hickey, the star linchpin, of the trial, as he was the government witness, was so stressed out that he almost died of alcohol poisoning from drinking to the point of no return.

When Burke and Spota sensed a threat of exposure, they lied, attacked, intimidated any perceived threat by the means of threatening the lives of his "palace guards."

Do you really think Suffolk County is going to investigate their own?

Ink bought by the barrel, yadda yadda yah.

REAL NICE BURKE. STEALING MY MAIL. OPENING MY MAIL. THIEF.

 

[hawkshaw]

Here's a good one for you.
When my SIL was arrested and convicted the three LE principals in that case were Tom Spota, Jim Burke, and Lt. James Hickey. Hickey actually testified at trial and LIED throughout. One of the criminals that lied got caught in several lies, as well as the other two. That one was Burke's neighbor for more than 4 years. He fled to Florida to run a wide scaled mortgage fraud scheme, and while doing so he was in NY testifying at the trial. There have been posts suggesting he has died at the ripe old age of 42. He seems to have died shortly before a serious fellow was released from prison who made it known he was going to kill Burke's neighbor st the first opportunity.

Jim Hickey testified at trial regarding the burglary at King Kullen. Prior to testifying at trial he was interviewed by SCPD detective Bill Lewis, another operative in the frame job and the detective wrote in his notebook: INTERVIEWED LT.HICKEY REGARDING THE INCIDENT AND HE HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF THE INCIDENT.......or words to that effect. He had no problem (Hickey) recollecting the INCIDENT when he testified.

What makes this even more stunning is when Spota crime family were convicted it was HIckey who testified against him and McP. The basis of the appeal was HICKEY WAS A LIAR . No kidding, Tom. The gall of them. Hey, Spota, didn't Hickey lie for you on many occasions and you couldn't find anything wrong with that.


Plenty more to add later.

Note. - current DA and the one he replaced: SINI could have cared less about the pursuit of justice,

 

[GlimmerTwins]

Here's a good one for you.
When my SIL was arrested and convicted the three LE principals in that case were Tom Spota, Jim Burke, and Lt. James Hickey. Hickey actually testified at trial and LIED throughout. One of the criminals that lied got caught in several lies, as well as the other two. That one was Burke's neighbor for more than 4 years. He fled to Florida to run a wide scaled mortgage fraud scheme, and while doing so he was in NY testifying at the trial. There have been posts suggesting he has died at the ripe old age of 42. He seems to have died shortly before a serious fellow was released from prison who made it known he was going to kill Burke's neighbor st the first opportunity.

Jim Hickey testified at trial regarding the burglary at King Kullen. Prior to testifying at trial he was interviewed by SCPD detective Bill Lewis, another operative in the frame job and the detective wrote in his notebook: INTERVIEWED LT.HICKEY REGARDING THE INCIDENT AND HE HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF THE INCIDENT.......or words to that effect. He had no problem (Hickey) recollecting the INCIDENT when he testified.

What makes this even more stunning is when Spota crime family were convicted it was HIckey who testified against him and McP. The basis of the appeal was HICKEY WAS A LIAR . No kidding, Tom. The gall of them. Hey, Spota, didn't Hickey lie for you on many occasions and you couldn't find anything wrong with that.


Plenty more to add later.

Note. - current DA and the one he replaced: SINI could have cared less about the pursuit of justice,

Good call on Tierney. Sini - buy bye
Hickey testified he was petrified that either Burke or Spota would kill him for talking to the Feds.

 

[hawkshaw]

Read that attached clip and tell me how they could use such a person to testify at a trial. I like the stories how he and his partner used to bring suspects to open graves in cemetery and put a gun in their mouth to confess. EVERYBODY knew that. Why do you think he was made the commanding officer of criminal intel?

And why do y9u think if Hickey is so bad he didn't have to spend a day in prison. WHY?

One thing I can say for Burke is he didn't want the FEDS within 1000 miles of Suffolk because he knew they wer4 worse than him.

 

[GlimmerTwins]

Read that attached clip and tell me how they could use such a person to testify at a trial. I like the stories how he and his partner used to bring suspects to open graves in cemetery and put a gun in their mouth to confess. EVERYBODY knew that. Why do you think he was made the commanding officer of criminal intel?

And why do y9u think if Hickey is so bad he didn't have to spend a day in prison. WHY?

One thing I can say for Burke is he didn't want the FEDS within 1000 miles of Suffolk because he knew they wer4 worse than him.

a) Burke hates the Feds cuz his daddy hated the Feds and killed 14 people after Lufthansa so they could not talk to Feds.
SELF PRESERVATION - who's the most important man on the planet, why Jimmy the Gent, that's who.

b) Hickey ratted out just like Sammy the Bull ratted out Gotti.

 

[Disco1]

Ordinary Citizens can make requests to investigate crimes. Recently a 20 year old solved a cold case on his own that police failed to solve. Let’s make sunshine requests for records and get these unsolved doe’s a name!

 

[Ruminations]

Dear Frankie "liar liar pants on fire" Mackay

This text is from Joe Scalise Jr.

"Originally Bellone did not want make Burke the
top cop....Spota forced him into it"

Interview Scalise and let him tell you what he told me years ago 'bout Spota forcing Bellone to make Little Jimmy
top cop

and make sure you ask him about the hit-and-run
in Pennsylvania that Spota and Burke and prince
of darkness set Scalise up to get put in jail for pot
grow house & guns. Allegedly Scalise was investigating
corrupt Bellone and others in same fashion you are
bloviating all over your microphone Frankie, but
you are free to barf all over your microphone and
Scalise was set up to go to jail.

things that make you go hhmmmm

For real? Not doubting you. But I'm curious.

I had Smithtown family, and was about the age of that murdered child that Burke appears to have helped Spota nab a questionable kid.

I have always felt that Shannan was done very wrong, starting with the upside down laws that make it nearly impossible for sex workers to work safely, and devolving from there. The story encapsulates many layers of abuse of power. As small as boyfriends, and growing through "drivers," escort services, crime rings and government corruption. And frankly, Suffolk County has always given me the creeps, since way back when that poor kid was suffocated with rocks. I didn't know the players, but there was something really creepy about the interviews I read in the paper about the case as a teen. There was a lot made of sneaker prints, and it even seemed to me then that SOMETHING was sus and it wouldn't be uncovered with sneaker prints.

So, I knew about pot growing and getting busted in Philadelphi. But I considered it all more evidence of what kind of place Oak Beach was... an enclave with excessive privacy. And a Suffolk cop homeowner. A really unusual response to Shanan.

I didn't know about any bad coming out of all the pot, especially compared to murder. It seemed a little big for personal use- but there was no bust for distributio, was there? Are you saying that an open secret was outed in revenge? What did the Fluke folks do that caused real harm to the power brokers?

MOO