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Burke was a New York City police officer in the 1980s. He later began working for the Suffolk County Police Department in Suffolk County, New York.In 1995, a Suffolk County Police Department internal probe found that Burke had "had a relationship with a woman engaged in prostitution and drug dealing, and had engaged in sex acts in police vehicles while on duty and in uniform".
James Burke, Suffolk County’s police chief from 2012 to 2015, was arrested around 10:15 a.m. at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Farmingville after exposing himself to the ranger and saying he ...
Already-disgraced ex-Suffolk County police chief James Burke was arrested Tuesday morning for soliciting a sex worker inside a Farmingville park, Long Island officials announced. Burke, who joined ...
In November 2016, former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke was sentenced to 46 months in federal custody. He was convicted of assaulting a man in 2012 during an interrogation and obstructing a federal investigation.
The federal inquiry subsequently expanded beyond Burke to investigate a broader pattern of corruption in both the police department and the office of the Suffolk County district attorney, Thomas J. Spota. [15] In October 2017, Spota and an aide were indicted on charges of obstructing the investigation of James Burke for police brutality.
Shortly after taking over the Suffolk County police department in 2012, James Burke moved to end cooperation with the FBI amid federal scrutiny of his own misconduct.
On December 10, 2015 Suffolk County Police Commissioner Tim Sini announced that the FBI had officially joined the investigation. The announcement came one day after former police chief James Burke was indicted for civil rights violations and conspiracy.
Charges that the former Suffolk County District Attorney and a deputy covered up an assault and other crimes by the county police chief — who at the time oversaw the Gilgo Beach serial killer ...