Prosecutor indicted in 2012 police brutality cover-up
Source: Associated Press
Frank Eltman, Associated Press
Updated 3:56 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Photo: John Dunn, AP
IMAGE 1 OF 2 FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota, center, leaves Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A district attorney in eastern Long Island and a top aide were charged Wednesday with intimidating witnesses in a federal civil rights investigation into the beating of a handcuffed prisoner by a police chief.
Democratic Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, Christopher McPartland, were named in an indictment charging them with obstruction of justice, witness tampering and other offenses related to the case against former county Police Chief James Burke.
Both pleaded not guilty at their arraignment in federal court on Long Island.
"While FBI agents were working to restore justice in a civil rights investigation, (the defendants) were conspiring to obstruct it, as alleged today," said William Sweeney, head of the FBI's New York Office. "The crimes they're charged with are rivaled only by the conduct they allegedly attempted to conceal."
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