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Episode 250: Suffolk County Police (LISK Part 3)

The First Degree

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Chris and James Burke: A PR Disaster

Suffolk County police chief James Burke was sentenced to 46 months in prison, but served more like 30 months and was released early. He didn't get any extra time for being found with Oxy in his cell; he still got out early. "According to pretty much every piece of evidence I've personally uncovered," says author Chris O'Mara,. "Burke, by all accounts, was protecting himself" A civil case that Chris won awarded him $1.5 million from the Suffolk County PD.

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