Mark Peters: Commissioner of the Department of Investigation

DOI COMMISSIONER MARK PETERS ILLEGALLY TRANSFERRED THE CASE TO THE NYPD/DOI SQUAD - WHICH IS PROHIBITED FROM INVESTIGATING THE NYPD - AND CONCEALED THE CASE FROM THE PROPER AUTHORITIES. FOR TWO MONTHS PETERS FALSELY MAINTAINED THAT THE CASE WAS BEING INVESTIGATED, WHEN IT WAS NOT.

WHEN PETERS' SUBORDINATE PHIIP EURE TRANSFERRED THE CASE TO NYPD INTERNAL AFFAIRS, HE CONCEALED THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE NYPD DOI, AND PETERS.

On May 12th, 2014, the case was presented as a formal complaint to the NY Department of Investigation, which was forwarded to Commissioner Mark Peters and his Chief Investigator John B Kantor.. On May 30th, 2014 Kantor referred the case to NYPD Detective Eddie Lebron of the "NY DOI NYPD Squad". On June 12th, 2014 Lebron wrote the BSN that “The NYC Department of Investigation ( DOI ) is currently conducting an investigation into this matter.” Email correspondence and phone conversations between Lebron and the BSN, regarding the case, continued until the end of June, 2014. On July 2, 2014, the BSN was informed by a source within the DOI that complaints to the DOI against the NYPD were not under the jurisdiction of the NY DOI NYPD Squad which, on account of being a bureau of the NYPD, was strictly prohibited from investigating complaints against the NYPD. A detective from the DOI NYPD Squad, who wished to remain anonymous, also confirmed that the squad has no jurisdiction over complaints because of the obvious conflict of interest that would entail.  The BSN was further informed that as of March, 2014, complaints made against the NYPD were being investigated by the recently formed Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD, headed by Inspector General Philip Eure. Immediately upon receiving this information, BSN wrote a letter and forwarded to Commissioner Peters and Kantor, asking “Have you or Mr. Kantor brought the Sunny Sheu case to the attention of Mr. Eure?” There was no response from Peters, Kantor or Lebron,and no explanation why the case had been improperly transferred to the NYPD DOI Squad, which had no jurisdiction over the NYPD.  When the Sheu case was formally submitted to the OIG on July 19th, 2014, the OIG said that they had no information about the Sunny Sheu case, had never heard the name, and had never been contacted about it by NY DOI NYPD Squad. Incredibly, for over six weeks, with the full knowledge of Commissioner and Chief Investigator of the DOI, the DOI NYPD Squad had: - never told the complainants that the case was not under their jurisdiction -pretended to run an investigation on the Sheu case, despite the case not being under their jurisdiction, -failed to alert the complainant that the OIG was now in charge of complaints against the NYPD -failed to alert the OIG about the complaint, or to transfer their files to them

"THE NYPD DOI SQUAD HAS NEVER HANDLED COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT"

- Thomas Mahoney (NYPD ret.), Chief of Investigations at the Office of the Inspector General on NYPD affairs.