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United
States Attorney Preet Bharara
Office
of Southern District of New York
One
St. Andrew’s Plaza
New
York, NY 10007
November
22, 2015
CIVILIAN
COMPLAINT REGARDING THE DEATH OF ANTI-CORRUPTION WHISTLE BLOWER
SUN-MING “SUNNY” SHEU, AND ITS ONGOING COVER UP BY THE NYPD, DOI,
OCA, AND OTHER PARTIES
REGARDING
JURISDICTION: While the mortgage fraud and murder that are central to
this case took place in Queens, New York, this complaint specifically
regards the cover-up of those crimes by the NYPD and the Department
of Investigation, agencies located in Manhattan, and therefore under
the jurisdiction of the Southern District.
Summary
of Underlying Murder Case:
On
June 26th, 2010, on a secluded street in College Point, NY, Queens
resident Sunny Sheu was found mortally wounded and taken to New York
Hospital of Queens, where he died shortly thereafter. The
NY Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be "blunt
force trauma to head with skull fractures and brain injuries."
and
the manner of death is “undetermined”.
Weeks prior to his death, Sheu reported to the FBI that he had been kidnapped by two NYPD Detectives of the NYPD Queens DA Squad and threatened with death if he went to the authorities or media regarding a mortgage fraud ring that involved a NYS Supreme Court Judge. Sheu begged the FBI for witness protection and also went to the Blackstar News who ran a series of stories on the mortgage fraud and the threats against Sheu. Sheu also posted a video on Youtube, stating that if he were harmed, it would be at the hands of NY State Supreme Court Judge Golia"and two Queens District Attorney Bureau NYPD Detectives who had illegally detained him and allegedly threatened his life.
To date has there never been an investigation of Mr. Sheu's death. There is, however, an ongoing, coordinated cover up of the case by the NYPD, DOI, FBI, New York Presbyterian Hospital Chain among others.
Weeks prior to his death, Sheu reported to the FBI that he had been kidnapped by two NYPD Detectives of the NYPD Queens DA Squad and threatened with death if he went to the authorities or media regarding a mortgage fraud ring that involved a NYS Supreme Court Judge. Sheu begged the FBI for witness protection and also went to the Blackstar News who ran a series of stories on the mortgage fraud and the threats against Sheu. Sheu also posted a video on Youtube, stating that if he were harmed, it would be at the hands of NY State Supreme Court Judge Golia"and two Queens District Attorney Bureau NYPD Detectives who had illegally detained him and allegedly threatened his life.
To date has there never been an investigation of Mr. Sheu's death. There is, however, an ongoing, coordinated cover up of the case by the NYPD, DOI, FBI, New York Presbyterian Hospital Chain among others.
Background: The Underlying Mortgage Fraud Case For ten years, Mr. Sheu had been fighting a mortgage fraud case, which threatened his home ownership. Fraudsters illegally acquired the mortgage of Sheu's home by forging the signature of Sheu's brother. Even though the fraudsters were arrested by the police and convicted for forgery and fraud, the bank “Centex Home Equity”, continued to pretend that the fraudsters' mortgage was valid, and refused to accept mortgage payments from Sheu, who was the legitimate owner. When the fraudsters failed to pay the mortgage, Centex got the house. After the fraudsters were convicted, they were released with no penalty.
When
Shue went to court to fight this foreclosure fraud, he found out
that
the
presiding Judge, SCJ Joseph Golia refused to enter the
documentation of the arrest and conviction - proof that he
transfer was fraudulent – into the court record.
Golia
granted Sheu's home to Centex, based on the fraudulent transfer of
deed. Sheu claimed that he was denied due process by Golia, whom
he believed was in league with the fraudsters. For
more details see the Black
Star News series “Junk Justice”.
Sheu Asks the FBI For Witness Protection after Kidnapping by NYPD
According
to Sheu, on January 14, 2009, he was illegally detained by NYPD
detectives Dominick DiGennarro and James Monaco of the Queens
District Attorney's Bureau. Sheu
stated under oath that the detectives told him that his house
"belonged to the bank" and threatened him with death if
he went to the authorities or press to complain about the case or
about Judge Golia's involvement.
Queens
DA spokesperson Kevin Ryan confirms Sheu’s detention on that
date, but refuses to state a reason for the detention, provide a
warrant, reveal who ordered the detention or provide any
information of what took place during the detention. The NYPD has
also refused to provide any of this information, except
an email informing Sheu that he was detained due to a complaint
of
"aggravated
harassment”
by
an unnamed party for placing a
letter in Golia's mailbox.
Under
NY law, "aggravated harassment" requires a person to act
"with intent to annoy or threaten" which was obviously
not
the
intent of Shue's letter to Golia. The intent of Sheu's letter was
to request that Judge act lawfully.
In an
April 9, 2010 email to Special Supervising Agent Rachel Rojas
of
the New York FBI, Mr. Sheu told Rojas that he had been "kidnapped"
by the detectives, and been warned that if he went to the media
about his mortgage case or filed complaints against Judge Golia,
he would be killed.. Sheu also met personally with Agent Rojas at
her office at 26 Federal Plaza where he pleaded for witness
protection. He provided her with hundreds of pages of evidence
about the mortgage fraud. Rojas told Sheu that the FBI only
investigates mortgage fraud cases in which the property is worth
over one million dollars. Regarding Sheu's plea for witness
protection, Rojas'
only official reply was a one-sentence email: “Thanks Sunny Be
careful and well”. After
Sunny's death, the FBI refused to investigate.
Sheu
Was Scheduled to Testify Against Golia, Made Video Predicting His
Death
Sheu
was scheduled to testify at a
continuation
of the NY
State Senate hearing regarding Judicial corruption, and
had
prepared a statement accusing Golia of threatening him with death.
Sheu also posted a video on Youtube, which has now received more than 50,000 views, explainging the mortgage fraud, and saying that if anything bad happened to him it would be at the hands of Judge Golia and the two Queens DA's that detained and threatened him. Despite the threats against him, Sunny also went to the Blackstar News, which published an in-depth article about his legal ordeal, including his kidnapping.
Sheu
Appealed to Then Senator Eric Schneiderman For Protection Two
Months Before His Death
On
April 14th, 2010 Sunny Sheu and Will Galison, who was constituent
of Senator Schneiderman, went to see the Senator at his first
campaign appearance at Mr. Dennehy's bar in Greenwhich Village.
Galison
had testified at the recent hearings of the Senate Judiciary
Committee on Judicial Oversight,
of which Senator Schneiderman was a member. Sheu was scheduled to
testify at the next hearing, which was cancelled.
Before the Q and A session at Mr. Dennehy's Bar, Schneiderman's PR man, James Freedland approached Galison and Sheu and asked them what they were going to ask the Senator. That seemed inappropriate, but Sheu said he wanted to ask the Senator what he could do about death threats he had received from two NYPD detectives on behalf of Supreme Court Judge Joseph Golia.
Freedland
told Sheu that he should not ask the question at the public
meeting, but that Senator Schneiderman would have a personal
meeting with them to discuss their concerns. In the following
weeks Galison called Schneiderman's office many times and was told
that he senator was too busy to have a meeting. Likewise, after
Sunny's death, correspondence between the BSN and Schneiderman's
office have continued to be ignored.
Recently, Schneiderman, who had been apprised of the kidnapping and the death of Sheu, nonetheless hired Dominick DiGennarro - one of the two detectives accused of kidnapping and threatening Sheu, as an Inspector of Medical fraud.
Sheu
Investigates Golia’s Finances
On
11/6/2009, Sheu
filed a complaint of financial disclosure fraud against Judge
Golia
with
the Ethics Commission of the NY Office of Court Administration
(OCA). The complaint including allegations of non-disclosure
of real estate properties worth millions of dollars.
The
Ethics Commission felt that Sheu's complaint had enough merit that
they demanded an amended financial disclosure from from Judge
Golia. Shortly before June 23nd, 2010 , the Ethics Commission
informed Sheu that the Golia's amended form was available. Sheu
went to the OCA June 23nd, 2010 to pick up the amended form.
Upon reading the amended form, and assessing that that Golia's
misrepresentations on the original form had not been remedied,
Sheu announced to the OCA that he had sufficient evidence to prove
that Judge Golia was guilty of fraud. His exact words - captured
on an audio recording by his colleagues - were: "Now I have
enough evidence to put Golia in jail".
Sunny
Shue is Bludgeoned to Death
Three
days later, On June 26th, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Sunny Sheu was found
lying on a deserted street in Flushing, NY, with severe head
trauma and in a coma. He was taken to New York Hospital of Queens
by EMS, where he died at 8:15 PM.
Medical
Examiner Autopsy Contradicts NYPD and New York Hospital ER Doctor
on Cause and Manner of Death
Zeeshan
Ahmed, the ER doctor attending Sunny, LIED about the cause of
death to Sheu's designated “next of kin”,
saying that a CAT scan showed that Sheu died of a “sub arachnoid
hemorrhage” and that there was “no head trauma... not a lump,
not a bump, not a scratch on his head". Within one hour of
Sheu's death, Detective Chris Austin of the 109th Precinct also
falsely stated that there was "no head injury” and that
Sheu died from an "aneurism" with “no head trauma”.
However,
the
Official Medical Examiner's Death Certificate
confirms
that Sheu died from "blunt force trauma to head with skull
fractures and brain injuries" and that the manner of death is
"undetermined" (no "aneurism" is mentioned in
autopsy) Under NY State law, and federal law, “Undetermined”
deaths require an investigation. Dr. Ahmed later confessed to Blackstar News editor Milton Allimadi in a phone conversation that he had known there was head trauma at the time of the incident, and that "foul play" was involved.
Two
weeks after the Medical Examiner determined that Sheu had died
from "blunt force trauma to head with skull fractures and
brain injuries", the
NYPD
continue to maintain that Sheu died “naturally” of "a
seizure" and that there was “no head trauma",
a position they presumably still hold, despite its blatant
contradiction of the Medical Examiner's official autopsy findings.
The
obvious significance of the NYPD's alteration of the M.E.'s
determination is that “undetermined” deaths mandate an
investigation, while “natural' deaths do not” The NYPD tried
to influence the M.E. into changing his ruling from “undetermined”
to “natural”, and when he refused, they changed it themselves.
Of course, under law, the NYPD has NO AUTHORITY to rule on the
cause and manner of death. That is the exclusive purview of the
Medical Examiner.
The
ME has confirmed that Sheu's body was cremated shortly after his
autopsy,
by a party falsely
claiming to
be the executor of Sheu’s estate,
yet another crime never investigated by law enforcement.
NYPD Gives False Evidence to the Medical Examiner to Sway His Determination.
On
June 28th,
2015, NYPD detectives, NYPD/
Medical Examiner liaison William "Billy" Grant and 109th
precinct Detective Chris Austin, conveyed a memo to Dr. Michael
Greenberg, the Queens Medical Examiner who autopsied Sheu,
claiming
that a “911 witness” who had seen Sheu "collapse"
and "strike his head". The NYPD memo also informs the
M.E. that due to the testimony of the “witness”, the homicide
squad of the 109th
had
determined that Sheu's death was “accidental” and with “no
criminality”. This was clearly an attempt to explain the head
trauma, which they could not hide from the M.E.
911 Tapes Acquired Through FOIL Prove that the Memo From Detectives Austin and Grant was Fraudulent: No Witness Saw Sheu Fall. This memo was fraudulent. Tapes of all the 911 reports obtained through a FOIL request, prove that not one of the three 911 callers mentioned seeing Sheu collapse. They all report a man “lying on the ground”. There are no corroborating police records mentioning any interview with a witness, and 109th Precinct Detective Ardisano (who was clearly not in the loop) told the BSN that according to his NYPD records, there was “no witness”. Furthermore, On September 16th, 2010, Queens ADA Laura Weinstock told the Blackstar News that there was no investigation ongoing because “there was no witness”.
The
fraudulent memo also raises the question of how
the NYPD knew that
Sheu had suffered head injuries when ER doctor Ahmed, who tended
to Sheu for four hours before his death and examined CAT scans of
Sheu's skull, allegedly could not find any trace of head injuries,
and that the presiding detective on the case, Chris Austin, also
claimed to somehow know that Sheu died of an aneurysm with no head
trauma. According to Arturo Sanchez of the NY Department of
Investigation which subpoenaed the Medical Examiner's findings,
the M.E. also found “lots of wounds” all over Sheu's body,
which, like the head trauma, were not reported by Dr. Ahmed.
No Investigation by NYPD or Queens DA - Coordinated Cover-up by NYPD, Queens DA, NY Hospital, OCA, DOI, OIG for NYPD and Others
To
date, there has been no investigation into the death of Mr. Sheu.
Rather, the response of the NYPD to Mr. Sheu’s death indicates a
coordinated effort to obfuscate and cover up the circumstances of
his death. Specifically; the NYPD:
- dispatched personnel to the New York Hospital of Queens to “identify” Sheu’s body and summarily transfer the body from the hospital to the Medical Examiner for immediate autopsy, even before the body could be officially identified by his next of kin,.
-
stated that the cause of death was an "aneurysm" with
“no head trauma” and that the manner of death was
"natural”- in direct contradiction to the Medical
Examiner’s report.
-
sent a false memo to the Chief Medical Examiner stating: "the
squad is holding this case as an accident with no criminality”.
But detective Ardisano
of the 109th pct states that the squad was not informed of Sheu's
death because
"there
was no head trauma"
-
falsely claimed that they interviewed a “witness” who had
called 911 to report Sunny's condition, and who Sheu "collapse"
and "strike his head". Tapes
of all the 911 reports obtained through a FOIL request, prove that
not one of the three 911 callers mentioned seeing Sheu collapse.
They
all report a man “lying on the ground".
- refused
to comply with any of the FOIL requests filed by The Black Star
News on December 2, 2010. In
abject violation of New York State law.
No Response from NYPD Commissioners Ray Kelly or William Bratton
On
May 18, 2011, the Black Star News sent a certified letter to
Commission Kelly,requesting
an investigation and a response to FOIL requests. Receipt was
confirmed, but Kelly has not responded. A
similar letter was sent to NYPD Commissioner Bratton on November
17th 2014,
which was likewise ignored.
Moreover,
letters
were written to the Chairman and President of the Queens HospitaL
alerting
them to the fact that in the best case, their ER Dr, Zeeshan
Ahmed, allowed a patient to die by failing to recognize “severe
blunt force trauma to the head with skull fractures and brain
injuries” (despite being told specifically to look for that
condition on CAT scans), and in the worst case was coerced into
ignoring these fatal wounds and lying to the patients next of kin
about them. These letters were likewise ignored.
NYPD
In Violation of New York Freedom of Information Law
The
NYPD has repeatedly violated the crucial NY State FOIL laws in
regard to this case. Recently
the NYPD ignored its final deadline to respond to an appeal of the
Blackstar News' original FOIL requests. Among the Unanswered
Questions in the FOIL Request:
-who
ordered the detention by complaining about a letter put in Judge
Golia's mailbox, if not Golia ?
-what
was the official purpose of the detention?
-who
was the alleged "911 witness" who reported seeing Sunny
"collapse"
-What
EMT workers transported Sunny to the hospital?
-what
NYPD officers identified Sunny Sheu's body, and how did they do
it?
-who
ordered the illegal transfer of Sunny's body eight hours after his
death?
-who
at the NY Hospital authorized the illegal transfer?
-why
did the NYPD send a false report to the Coroner?
-why
has there been no investigation of an "undetermined"
death?
Despite
maintaining that there was “no criminality” involved in Sheu's
death, the NYPD has refused to furnish documents regarding any
aspect of the case, except
the recordings of the 911 calls,
and a facsimile of the notebook of Detective Campuzano, who was on
the scene. As noted previously, these records prove that no
witness saw Sheu fall. The NYPD did not deny the requests for
the other documents by citing exceptions under FOIL law. Rather,
They simply have ignored the FOIL requests over the past four
years.
The Queens DA Makes an Outrageous Excuse for Not Investigating the Case:
In
an email to retired
NYPD Detective Joe Mazzilli, Queens DA spokesman Kevin
Ryan stated:
"With
regard to Mr. Shue's death, we do not have any evidence of any
criminality in his death and the case was never ruled a homicide
by the Medical Examiner's office.” We
do not have to explain to Mr Bharara that the Medical
Examiner does not need to rule a death as “homicide” in order
for an investigation to be mandatory. Any case ruled
“undetermined” by the M.E. must be
investigated, because it
could be a homicide.
In fact, the Medical Examiner who autopsied Sheu stated
that he could not tell from the autopsy if Sheu's
injuries were caused by falling down or by “being hit in the
head with a pipe”.
If
the Queens DA has “no evidence of criminality” in the case, it
is only because they have corruptly and illegally refused to
investigate. It should be noted that Judge Golia is a close
personal friend of former Queens DA Richard Brown and worked as an
ADA under Brown for years. Golia's daughter is now an ADA at the
Queens DA, under Brown and has
represented Brown in court.
The
NYC Department of Investigation Continues the Cover Up
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 DOI 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 had never been under the jurisdiction
of the NY DOI NYPD Squad and
had in fact been processed by the Inspector General for the NYPD
since
March, 2014.
That day, BSN wrote a letter and forwarded to Commissioner Peters
and Kantor, asking why the case had been referred to the NYPD DOI
Squad and not the OIG. “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.
The Office Of The Inspector General for NYPD Affairs Continues the Cover Up On July 19th, 2014, the Blackstar News filed a formal complaint with the Office of the Inspector General, the NYPD watchdog agency convened by Mayor DeBlasio in May of 2014. This was in the form a of a letter directly addressed to Philip Eure, the Inspector General for NYPD Affairs (“OIG”). The letter was sent by certified mail and also by email and by Linkedin to Mr. Eure, and its receipt by him was confirmed by OIG Deputy Inspector General Sandra Musumeci. 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.
A
detective from the DOI NYPD Squad, who wished to remain anonymous,
also confirmed that
the squad is
forbidden from investigating
complaints against
the NYPD
because of the obvious conflict of interest involved.
After
the complaint was accepted by the OIG, the corruption and cover up
continued unabated. On
January 16th,
at
the DOI Headquarters, BSN Publisher Milton Allimadi and reporter
Will Galison met with OIG Investigator Edward Sanchez and Chief
Investigator Carhina, a 28-year veteran detective of the NYPD.
From the outset, Carinha was defensive of the NYPD and even
implied that Sheu had brought the illegal detention and death
threats upon himself. During the interview, in fact, neither
Sanchez nor Carinha asked Allimadi or Galison a single question
regarding the case.
The only questions were asked by Allimadi and Galison, and while
most answers were vague and evasive, some revealed important clues
as to the nature of the OIG's investigation, specifically:
-The
OIG had
never subpoenaed the
CAT scans made by ER Doctor Zeeshan Ahmed, who falsely told
Sunny's friends and
the
NYPD that they showed no indication of head trauma. When asked if
Ahmed would be interviewed, Carhina responded: “if he's willing
to come in, obviously we can't force him to come in...”. That
statement is patently untrue, as the OIG is empowered to
subpoena a statement and all medical records from Ahmed, who is a
critical witness - if not perpetrator- at any time.
-
The OIG never investigated the disposition of Sheu's computer
after his death or even inquired about its whereabouts. The
computer would hold evidence of the NYPD's illegal hacking of
Sheu's emails before his murder, which Sheu reported to the BSN
and, under oath, to the FBI
-
The OIG never interrogated ER Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed, who allowed Sunny
Sheu to die by either failing to recognize "blunt force
trauma with skull fractures and brain injuries" (negligent
homicide) or - more likely- by being compelled to allow Sheu to
die and to lie about it by the people responsible for his death
(first degree murder).
-
The OIG had never
investigated the
identity of the critical “witness” that the NYPD told the M.E.
had seen Sheu fall, whose existence would exonerate the NYPD and
whose non-existence would prove an NYPD conspiracy to mislead the
M.E. They promised to look into this, but have never updated the
BSN on the case, and have ignored every communication since the
interview.
– The
OIG also never investigated the obfuscation by their DOI
colleagues at the DOI NYPD, Squad, including the Squad's attempt
to hijack the case from the OIG and bury it.
DOI
Chief Investigator Finds “Nothing Suspicious About the Sunny
Sheu Case”
When
BSN Publisher Allimadi cut to the chase by asking Carinha :
“Do you see [anything in the Sunny Sheu case] that looks
suspicious?” to which Carinha answered without hesitation: “No”.
In summary, the things that do not look suspicious to Chief
Investigator Cahrina include:
-
Illegal detention/ kidnapping 2 by Queens DA NYPD squad and no
investigation thereof
-
Illegal suppression by the NYPD of information requested by FOIL
-
Failure to investigate death of manner ruled “Undetermined” by
the M.E.
-
NYPD memo to the Medical Examiner citing a witness “saw
[Sheu] collapse”with zero corroborating evidence or
documentation, in violation of basic Police procedure.
-
Lying to victim's friends regarding cause and manner of death and
no investigation thereof
-
Official files of the 109th
reflecting
that Sheu died of a “seizure” with “no head trauma”, weeks
after the M.E. determined that he died of “Blunt force trauma to
the head”.
-
Illegal removal of unidentified body and no investigation thereof,
influencing a witness in felony case and no investigation thereof
-
Cremation of the body by a person falsely claiming to be the
executor of Sheu's estate
-
No response the NYPD Commissioner to a certified report of the
above
-
deception of the complainant and the OIG by the DOI NYPD Squad
Letters
sent to OIG
Chief of Investigations Thomas Mahoney,
and
forwarded
to
Inspector
General Eure
and
DOI
Commissioner Peters,
complaining
about the flagrant bias and dishonesty of Detective Carinha have
all been ignored.
The New York Department of Investigation Violates FOIL Law The OIG also prevaricated about the status of the case, and, like the NYPD, flagrantly violated NY FOIL law by refusing, illegally to furnish a single document pertaining to the case or to abide by FOIL exemption protocol in denying them. Their delinquency was confirmed by COOG Commissioner Robert Friedman, who wrote a stern admonition to OIG legal Counsel and FOIL director Asim Rehman. The OIG Sends the Case to the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau, but Withholds the Allegations against the NYPD DOI Squad and All Evidence Collected by the OIG Investigation. On April 14th, 2015, the OIG announced that they had transferred the case to the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, lead by Joseph J. Reznick, who famously called an NYPD whistleblower a “rat” for reporting police misconduct.
A
Detective
of Internal Affairs Bureau told the BSN that the only complaint
transferred to them by the OIG was the original
letter sent to Mark Peters and John Kantor of the DOI via Lee
Contes.
This means that the
letter to OIG Philip Eure,
detailing the fraudulent sham investigation by the NYPD DOI Squad
was withheld from the IAB by the OIG. Thus, the
letter to OIG Philip Eure,
detailing the fraudulent sham investigation by the NYPD DOI Squad
and specifying other systemic corruption in the NYPD was withheld
from
the IAB by the OIG.
Furthermore, according to the IAB Detective, when the complaint was transferred to them from the OIG, it contained no evidence collected by the DOI or OIG during their ten month investigation. This is remarkable in light of the OIG Investigator Sanchez' assurance: “I can tell you unequivocally that we are working very hard to find answers – we have requested medical records…”. The DOI claims that the investigations of the DOI, NYPD/DOI Squad and OIG, between May 12, 2014 and July 19, 2015 all yielded "No Substantiated Findings". NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Transfers the Case to the NYPD Chief of Detectives Bureau, Which Summarily Close the Case. On September 19th, 2015, the IAB transferred the case to the NYPD Chief of Detectives squad.
A
Detective
of Internal Affairs Bureau told the BSN that the only complaint
transferred to them by the OIG was the original
letter sent to Mark Peters and John Kantor of the DOI via Lee
Contes.
So, the OIG also deprived the Detective Bureau of the allegations
against Detective Lebron and the NYPD/DOI Squad, which is squarely
under their jurisdiction.
Futhermore, according to the IAB Detective, when the complaint was transferred to them from the OIG, it contained no evidence collected by the DOI or OIG during their ten month investigation. This is remarkable in light of the OIG Investigator Sanchez' assurance: “I can tell you unequivocally that we are working very hard to find answers – we have requested medical records...” We know that the OIG did uncover at least some significant information from their investigation, including the Medical Examiner's statement that Sunny had “a lot of wounds” all over his body. So why was this important fact and all other evidence complied by the OIG withheld from the IAB and the Detective's bureau? Like the IAB, Bocola confirmed that neither the OIG nor the IAB had furnished him with any evidence from their respective investigations, and only furnished him with the original complaint to Lee Contes, Mark Peters and John Kantor. This means that Bocola had no knowledge of the complaint to Inspector General Philip Eure which included documentation of the fraudulent claims by the NYPD OIG Squad that the DOI had investigated the case. Why did the OIG only send the initial complaint to the IAB and the Detective Bureau and not the more comprehensive complaint to Eure? We know that Mark Peters and John Kantor were responsible for improperly referring the initial complaint to the NYPD DOI Squad, and that they took no action against Detective Lebron for fraudulently stating that there was an ongoing DOI investigation. As Lebron is an active NYPD officer, under the jurisdiction of the Detective Bureau, it would appear that the DOI and its OIG are protecting Lebron from investigation. Of course, the letter to Eure also implicates DOI Commissioner Mark Peters himself (who employs Eure), swhich is abnother good reason fro them to keep the Eure letter under wraps.
The
NYPD Detective Bureau's Investigation is Completed in Less than
Eight Days.
Although Sgt Bocola refused to make any comment about his investigation of the Sunny Sheu case, one very important aspect is apparent; the “investigation was astonishingly brief. Sgt. Bocola received the complaint on September 19. The Lieutenant of the Detective Bureau, Simmons, would not give a specific date for the closing of the case, but he told me “it was closed in September of this year”. Since September has only 30 days, this means that Bocola's investigation of the illegal detention/kidnapping, the death threats, the false statements of Dr. Ahmed, the unauthorized removal of the body by NYPD Detectives, the false witness” story sent to the Medical Examiner by Austin and Grant, the false reports given by Ardisano about the cause and manner of death, the unauthorized cremation of the body by a party falsely claiming to be the Executor of Sheu's estate, the violation of FOIL law by the NYPD and above all, the NYPD's failure to investigate a case ruled “undetermined” by the Medical Examiner for over five and a half years, was conducted in the maximum of six to eight working days, depending on which dates his days-off fell upon. Bocola Investigate and Closed the Case Without Interviewing Any of the Primary Witnesses, or Examining Any Evidence Not only does Bocola claim to have investigated all these matters in a maximum of eight days; he managed to this without making a single inquiry to the primary witnesses in the case, myself, Milton Allimadi and Dr. Brobowsky, none of whom were informed of the case's transfer to the Detective's Bureau, until this investigation uncovered that fact. It is self evident that no investigation into the myriad of questions and allegations raised in the complaint could be even be initiated in eight days or less. Furthermore, Bocola also stated that the Detective Bureau only has jurisdiction over “active duty NYPD personnel”. It is interesting to note that the two Detectives accused of kidnapping Sheu are no longer on active duty, and therefore were not under the jurisdiction of Bocola's “investigation”. However, it is Bocola's duty to report the alleged crimes of all former NYPD agents to the proper authorities, which he clearly did not do. The only positive thing that can be said about Bocola is that it only took him eight days days exactly what it took the OIG eight months to do, and the IAB six months to do, namely conduct a sham investigation, with the intention of covering up the murder and protecting the murderers of Sunny Sheu. Every fact in this complaint is documented with evidence, which we will make available to your office at your request. Your failure to request this evidence will be understood as a disinterest in this case.
I
swear under penalty of perjury that every fact stated in the above
is true to the best of my knowledge. A more in-depth account of
the Sunny Sheu case up to 2012, with limited links to documentary
evidence can be found at:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/10943-the-death-of-sunny-sheu and
elsewhere on the internet.
Signed,
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