This includes the so-called "Gilgo Four," young women whose bodies were found in late 2010 within a quarter of a mile of each other near Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s south shore.
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You better find out fast, if it’s not too late,” Spota said, the officer testified.īurke, a long-time protégé of Spota, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to depriving a person of civil rights and conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice.Īmid this cover-up, Burke became connected to the ongoing “Long Island Serial Killer” case, which involves the murders of at least 10 people, mostly female sex workers, who have been found dead on Long Island over a nearly 20-year period. At trial, an officer testified for the government about a 2015 meeting at Spota’s office, where he explained that as federal investigators began probing Loeb’s beating for a second time, Spota asked him to find out if anyone who was aware of the attack had “flipped.” Spota was recruited into the conspiracy at this point, along with McPartland, who was then the chief of investigations of an anti-corruption bureau. He then ordered that multiple high-ranking commanders in the Suffolk County Police Department ensure “officers who had witnessed the assault would never reveal what they had observed.” The chief “shook Loeb’s head violently, punched him in the head and body and attempted to knee Loeb,” according to court documents. Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota leaves the courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y.Īfter learning of Loeb’s apprehension, federal authorities say Burke rushed to the police station where he found Loeb “handcuffed, hunched over and manacled to the floor” and began beating him. In 2012, Long Island resident Christopher Loeb had been arrested after being accused of breaking into Burke’s department-issued SUV and stealing his gun belt, ammunition, and a duffel bag, which contained “cigars, sex toys, prescription Viagra and pornography,” prosecutors said.
The septuagenarian said he hopes not to “die in prison alone.” Prosecutors made the case for both men to spend eight years behind bars, telling the court that in covering up a top police officer’s crime, they were doing “the exact opposite” of their jobs. Spota told Azrack that his prosecution was the lowest point in his life and that he believes it will be his legacy after a long career as a respected prosecutor. District Judge Joan Azrack said at sentencing on Tuesday. “This was not a momentary moral lapse but years of criminal cover-up,” U.S. Spota was also ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. Thomas Spota, 79, and his top aide, 55-year-old Christopher McPartland, were handed their sentences on Tuesday by a federal judge following their December 2019 convictions on conspiracy, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and civil rights violation charges related to a vast cover-up of the beating of a suspected thief by Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke in 2012. The disgraced former New York prosecutor who helped cover up the jailhouse beating of a man who stole items including a duffel bag containing sex toys from a local police chief - whose name was dragged into the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case - was sentenced to five years in prison this week.
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