		<div class="wpcnt">
			<div class="wpa">
				<span class="wpa-about">Advertisements</span>
				<div class="u top_amp">
							<amp-ad width="300" height="265"
		 type="pubmine"
		 data-siteid="109460728"
		 data-section="1">
		</amp-ad>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div><header id="ra-headers">
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Thomas Spota DA of Suffolk County, NY stepping down after feds indict him for covering up police chief beating </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Spota, 76, was indicted for intimidating witnesses in a federal civil rights investigation into ex-Suffolk County police chief, James Burke </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Feds say Spota abused his power and shamed his office by trying to cover Burke’s alleged beatdown of a handcuffed suspect inside a Smithtown </strong><strong><span style="color:#0a0101;">p</span>olice precinct in 2012</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Christopher Loeb, was attacked after breaking into Burke’s police-issued SUV and stealing the police chief&#8217;s sex toys, porn video, gun belt, cigars and humidor</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Spota and the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, Christopher McPartland, 51, engaged in a coordinated campaign to quash the case by pressuring witnesses from cooperating with the feds</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Spota and McPartland both pled not guilty Wednesday, each posted bail of $500,000</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Former chief of the Suffolk County Police Department, James Burke, was sentenced to 46 months in 2016 for the beating<br />
</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Thomas Spota, who held the post of DA for 16 years, was not see</strong><strong>king re-election</strong></span></h6>
</header>
<div id="ra-body-wrap">
<aside id="ra-left">
<section class="ra-meta"></section>
</aside>
<article id="ra-body">
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-276055" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/thomas-spota-1.jpg" alt="Thomas Spota 1" width="1200" height="904" />Thomas Spota, after 16 years as Suffolk County DA , stepping down amid federal charges accusing him of covering up an assault by a disgraced police chief</h6>
<p>Veteran District Attorney for Suffolk County in Long Island, NY, Thomas Spota, Wednesday announced that he is stepping down amid federal charges accusing him of covering up an assault by a disgraced police chief.<br />
Spota made the announcement a day after he was indicted for intimidating witnesses in a federal civil rights investigation into ex-Suffolk County top cop James Burke.<br />
“I will be leaving my post as District Attorney at the earliest opportunity after the resolution of normal administrative matters relating to my retirement,” Spota said in a statement. “The Governor will be notified of my decision today.”<br />
The 76-year-old Spota, who held the role for 16 years, was not seeking re-election.<br />
The longtime Suffolk County District Attorney and one of his chief aides on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, were indicted on federal charges that they were involved in a cover-up of former Suffolk Police Chief James Burke&#8217;s assault of a suspect in 2012</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-276111" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/christopher-mcpartland-and-thomas-spota-2.jpg" alt="Christopher McPartland and Thomas Spota 2" width="705" height="395" />Spota, [center], and Christopher McPartland the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, have been indicted in the coverup</strong></h6>
<p>Federal prosecutors say the lawman abused his power and shamed his office by trying to sweep under the rug Burke’s alleged beatdown of a handcuffed suspect inside a Smithtown police precinct in 2012.<br />
The beating victim, Christopher Loeb, was attacked after breaking into Burke’s police-issued SUV, and stole the police chief&#8217;s sex toys, a porn video, a gun belt, cigars and a humidor.<br />
The former chief of the Suffolk County Police Department, James Burke, was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 46 months in 2016 for the Christopher Loeb beating.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-276053" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ex-suffolk-county-top-cop-james-burke-2.jpg" alt="ex-Suffolk County top cop James Burke 2.jpg" width="1200" height="799" />Suffolk Countay DA, Thomas Spota was indicted for intimidating witnesses in a federal civil rights investigation into Suffolk County&#8217;s former police chief, James Burke, [Center]</h6>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-276134" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/christopher-loeb-and-ex-suffolk-county-police-chief-james-burke-1.png" alt="Christopher Loeb and ex-Suffolk County police chief James Burke 1.png" width="700" height="505" />After a duffel bag containing pornography and sex toys was stolen from Police Chief James Burke’s [right], parked SUV, Christopher Loeb [left], was brought to a station house and shackled to the floor of an interrogation room and beaten.</h6>
<p>Spota and Christopher McPartland, 51, the chief of his anti-corruption bureau, engaged in a coordinated campaign to quash the case by pressuring witnesses from cooperating with the feds, according to federal prosecutors.<br />
Both entered not guilty pleas and posted $500,000 bail on Wednesday.<br />
Spota’s lawyer, Alan Vinegrad, said outside of court that his client “committed no crime” and “looks forward to vindicating himself in court.”<br />
In his statement, Spota said chief assistant district attorney Emily Constant will take over his role.</p>
<p> ;</p>
</article>
</div>

Veteran DA in NY, Thomas Spota, stepping down after fed indictment for covering up beating by disgraced police chief
