Acting Eastern District U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis said in a statement after Tuesday's sentencing hearing that justice had been served after "reprehensible violations of the public trust" by the defendants. Former Suffolk DA James Spota Sentenced To 5 Years In James - CBS News Brooklyn NY 11201, Telephone: 718-254-7000 McPartland, who worked directly under Spota, also had built a close friendship with Burke, and was the first person who Burke called the morning he discovered that his vehicle had been burglarized," the release from the U.S. Attorney's office said. Together, Mr. Spota, Mr. McPartland and Chief Burke controlled what amounted to a law-enforcement fiefdom in the eastern half of Long Island, prosecutors said. Approximately one year later, prosecutors from U.S. Attorneys Long Island Criminal Division reopened the investigation. Former Suffolk DA Spota sentenced to five years in prison and $100,000 ', Long Island Siblings Saved By Heart Transplants Beat COVID. Leto retired in 2015, later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice and now is awaiting sentencing. Ex-Suffolk County DA Thomas Spota guilty of obstructing federal probe They were accused of helping cover up the 2012 police beating of a prisoner suspected of stealing sex toys and other items from a police chiefs vehicle. Ex-Suffolk DA Thomas Spota, former aide sentenced to 5 years - Newsday Senator Flanagan And District Attorney Spota Join Families To Call For According to federal prosecutors, Spota, McPartland, Burke and other police officers met and spoke by phone to discuss how to conceal Burke's role in the assault on Loeb. The convictions of Mr. Spota and Mr. McPartland make it clear that the days of Long Islands good old boy networks combining politics, power and policing to benefit a select few, at the expense of the taxpaying public, are dead and gone, said Richard Donoghue, the United States attorney in the Eastern District of New York. Loeb was paid $1.5 million after he filed a federal lawsuit against Suffolk County, a report by 1010wins said. They also presented evidence that Spota, as part of his history of covering up for Burke, wrote a 2011 letter to County Executive-elect Steve Bellones transition team. Ex-Suffolk County DA gets 5 years in prison for assault cover-up
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