Detective Scott Munro Jr. (proper) urges Mayor Eric Adams to research alleged corruption inside the NYPD's Inner Affairs Bureau.
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An NYPD detective who was demoted for calling out alleged corruption within the division’s Inner Affairs Bureau has been reinstated, and is now calling on Mayor Adams to probe the bureau.
Scott Munro Jr. claimed in a 2021 lawsuit that IAB head Joseph Reznick protected a crooked detective who drummed up bogus sting operations on colleagues so he might line his pockets with additional time.
Munro blew the whistle on the cop, who he claims went after Munro with false accusations of assault that resulted in Munro’s demotion from detective to police officer.
Munro, who has since gotten his job again, desires Adams to order an investigation of the bureau and the allegedly crooked cop, Lt. John Dandola.
In a letter to the mayor to be delivered on Monday, Munro’s lawyer John Scola requested that “the NYPD formally examine Lt. Dandola, hear the proof gathered by Munro and overview every case wherein Dandola investigated as a member of the Chief of Detective Investigation Unit to make sure there are not any different members of the [Detectives’ Endowment Association] who might have had their careers senselessly ruined.”
Munro’s lawsuit in March 2021 towards the IAB, targeted on Dandola, then a part of the IAB’s Integrity Testing Unit, often known as Group 52 and tasked with conducting undercover checks on its officers.
Dandola would allegedly “manipulate” sting operations to line his pockets with additional time pay, the lawsuit stated — however the ruse was uncovered in 2016 throughout a test-gone-wrong on a Detectives’ Endowment Affiliation trustee’s officer son.
Dandola and Group 52 Sgt. Jack Wu are accused of ordering their underlings to destroy the audio tapes from the botched operation — prompting Reznick to switch them to separate precincts, a transfer he known as “punishment sufficient,” the go well with stated.
Dandola’s switch to the 111th precinct slashed his additional time pay — and served because the “catalyst” for his impending “vendetta” towards the DEA that additionally focused Munro, the go well with says.
One 12 months after the switch, Deputy Inspector Edward Armstrong, Dandola’s former Commanding Officer in Group 52, requested him to go the Investigations Unit within the Chief of Detectives, a transfer accredited by Reznick, the letter to the mayor alleges.
The letter claims that in 2019, Dandola turned conscious of allegations relating to an altercation made towards Munro in Suffolk County and “made it his private mission to convict Munro.”
Regardless of being past his jurisdiction, Munro claims Dandola coordinated the arrest after he had persuaded a fellow service member to press fees towards him.
After Dandola was known as to testify on the matter he allegedly “strangled and assaulted a fellow NYPD lieutenant who accepted service of the subpoena,” the letter stated. Armstrong allegedly ordered Dandola to make money working from home and no different disciplinary motion was taken.
Munro pleaded responsible with out admitting any wrongdoing in an effort to keep away from going to trial, the letter states.
“Dandola would then proceed to fraudulently misrepresent the info of the Munro matter in a number of inside NYPD memorandums which finally resulted in Munro being demoted to police officer on June 29, 2020,” in keeping with the letter.
Munro subsequently filed “grievance after grievance” to IAB about Dandola’s “witch hunt,” the letter stated. Nevertheless, every time a grievance was filed it “could be routed by Joseph Reznick to Edward Armstrong to research himself and his hand-picked subordinate, Dandola.”
Munro obtained his detective badge again on Jan. 18, 18 months after he was demoted, after studying the NYPD could be dropping the matter in December 2021.
“One other expert detective is again on the road serving all New Yorkers,” stated DEA President Paul DiGiacomo about Munro’s reinstatement. Munro is the son of DEA Secretary Scott Munro Sr.
Regardless of his reinstatement, no motion has been taken towards Dandola, Reznick or others.
“We consider that a thorough investigation might absolve different members of service [who] have been terminated or demoted on account of the condoned corruption inside the Chief of Detectives Division,” the letter states.
“We hope that with the brand new administration and refreshing turnover inside the NYPD, that this matter will lastly be correctly investigated and hopefully lead to no DEA member or member of service normally being pressured to endure the identical malicious and illegal assaults as my consumer,” the letter states.
Reznick and the top of the division’s worker relations Robert Ganley have been requested to depart final month as new Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and her administration slowly started cleansing home, police sources advised The Put up.
The 2 NYPD executives have been accumulating a hefty pension on prime of their massive salaries as deputy commissioner, regardless of not really carrying the title by legislation.
Reznick, 70, was making a wage of $241,116 and had been accumulating a $177,825.72 annual pension since 2016, when he turned 65.
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