Is News 12 covering this up for yonkers?
This is an article that was in lohud three weeks ago. News12 had extensive coverage of the shooting in 2006, yet this article portrays a potential coverup by Yonkers police and high up officals and yet no coverage whatsoever by News12? Is news 12 in the City of Yonkers pocket that there has been absolutely no coverage of this?? Ex-Yonkers peace officer says he was fired for saying partner was suicidal By Ernie Garcia • elgarcia@lohud.com • December 9, 2009 •Comments (3) •Recommend •Print this page •E-mail this article •Share •Del.icio.us •Facebook •Digg •Reddit •Newsvine •Buzz up! •Twitter •Text Size: Normal | Large | Larger Next Page•1 •| 2Previous Page YONKERS — A former peace officer claims his supervisors fired him to try to cover up the fact he had expressed concern about a suicidal coworker who later shot his own wife and killed himself. In a federal civil rights lawsuit, Carl Amato, 51, of Yonkers claims that high-ranking Yonkers police officials created a hostile work environment, involuntarily committed him for psychiatric observation, linked him with illegal activity and then fired him after the death of his regular work partner Gerard Moray. Moray, 47, committed suicide on April 19, 2006, after shooting his wife, Angela, twice in their Cortlandt home. She survived. Amato alleges that prior to Moray's death, Moray told him he was depressed and planning the murder-suicide. In response, he took Moray's gun away from him and turned it in to the department, describing his concerns to a supervisor, John Bennett. A few days later, Moray returned to work with his weapon and confronted Amato for telling Bennett he was concerned Moray might be suicidal. In the Nov. 16 lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in White Plains, Amato claims that Yonkers Police Commissioner Edmund Hartnett and five other city officials attempted to conceal Amato's prior warnings about Moray by creating an onerous work environment. On Dec. 5, 2006, Amato, frustrated with his treatment, complained to co-workers that he was looking forward to "getting off this job," and someone subsequently reported that Amato was suicidal, his lawsuit says. Three days later, police officials confronted Amato about his co-worker's expression of concern, and he was forcibly taken to a hospital for observation. "Amato is not nuts," said Thomas G. Cascione, Amato's attorney. "They had him in a mental hospital and they found him perfectly lucid." Hartnett declined to comment on the matter on Thursday, citing his policy of not discussing ongoing litigation. Yonkers Corporation Counsel Frank Rubino said on Monday that he could not comment on the matter because the city has not yet been served with a copy of the suit. While Amato was in the hospital, Yonkers police raided his home and seized a gun collection that Cascione estimated is worth $100,000. Cascione said the police have not returned the collection. Amato is a gunsmith. Amato wants the court to reinstate him to his position with back pay and benefits, require the Yonkers police to return his gun collection and force the department to pay punitive money damages for civil rights violations, defamation and suffering. According to Yonkers' 2007 employee salary data, Amato was hired by the city on July 25, 1988, and his gross pay in 2007 was $101,148. The city fired him on Nov. 11, 2007 — only months before he could retire — after accusing him of failing to cooperate with a criminal investigation. Cascione said Amato was never charged with a crime in what was a police investigation into an illegal massage parlor. Amato was fired for refusing to give a statement without the presence of Cascione, who said he was unable to attend the interviews at the times set by police.
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Probably a big cover up, I believe we never hear the total truth.
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