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Officer Admits To Having Tickets Fixed In Bronx Cop Probe
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 15, 2011
Modified Apr 15, 2011
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It's easy for people to say they think cops are dirty, but how often do you get definitive proof of it? Last week, a grand jury probe began an investigation of approximately 40 Bronx cops, including delegates from the city's largest police union, for a ticket-fixing scheme. And already, they've yielded some damning public admissions.
Bronx Officer Julissa Goris, who is not a target of the probe, admitted in court that she had union delegates take care of two summonses for her. Goris was testifying about her role in arresting DWI suspect Stephen Lopresti, a former Bronx assistant district attorney, in 2006; she was questioned about a cop she was captured on a wiretap talking to: "He's a delegate. That's what they told us in the department. You can call your delegate if you need a ticket fixed for a family member." Goris then admitted that she had tickets fixed for her cousin's boyfriend and for her mother: "I spoke to the sergeant. The sergeant spoke to the officer. He didn't want me to speak to the officer and then that was all. Then, uhm, my mom came to me and said, 'That's it. Everything is done. Everything is fine.'"
The grand jury probe is targeting tickets from all 12 Bronx precincts between August 2009 through last June, before the NYPD started tracking summonses electronically last summer, making fixing tickets much harder to do. Dozens of cops, many of whom are members of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the city's largest police union, could be indicted on bribery, larceny and official misconduct charges in the upcoming weeks. But prosecutors are afraid that the ticket-fixing probe could blow open dozens of other cases, and endanger criminal convictions: "It's a mess—and [Goris is] only the beginning. The potential damage here is huge, because of the volume of cases these cops were involved in," a source in the DA's office said.
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