Audio recordings of the police bathroom? Yeah, we'd like to hear them, too...

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From: John Patten
To: Lori Stelzer, city council, Julie Williams
Date: June 21, 2010

Lori:

I would like to see everything that Frascatore is provided with and I would like to see any and all denials and responses to his recent public records request(s).

For the uninitiated, you may remember Chief Williams at a recent city council meeting speaking of an officer resigning to join the NYPD -- Williams claimed that this was a great officer who didn't want to quit and who Williams hated to lose and that the officer even (sniff) had a tear in his eye (sniff) as he fought back a well of wailing over leaving his beloved Julie Williams.

Remember that?

Yeah, well, that would be Officer Frascatore (actually, now former officer). Looks like he wasn't so weepy after all. In fact, one might even refer to him as disgruntled, although Williams insisted that there was only one disgruntled officer in the department, an officer she referred to as "despicable" in the Herald-Tribune a month or two back.

Ya think maybe Williams was fibbing about that whole tear in the eye story? Cuz that story now has the smell of pure Grade-A government inspected and stamped bull-sheeeeeee-it.

If I'm reading Frascatore's email correctly, he's stating that Williams stated that she has the bathrooms at VPD bugged. Now here you have a sworn officer of the law accusing in writing another sworn officer of the law of admitting to a crime (you can't bug bathrooms EVER and you can't audio tape without either the subject's knowledge or a court order UNLESS it is part of an ongoing CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, and it's usually best to get a court order even then).

I would like to point out that this screams of requiring some kind of investigation, something besides the typical asking of Williams, "Did you do this?"

Oh, back to you, Lori: I asked last week for records about Turner's knowledge of the Mike Rose thingie, never got a response. So I'd still like that info (see my email of last week). So there's that, then copies of whatever Frascatore is asking for, and I'm probably going to ask in the next day or so to see all of Kim Hackett's requests that she has made in the past four weeks (I don't want to see what you have provided her with, I want to see the requests that she has made -- the emails from her asking you for stuff).

Oh, and Julie, since you are getting a copy of this:

(sorry, but I have always wanted to do that)

Wow. It's like George Hunt and Marty Black are both back in office. I haven't seen this much ducking and weaving since Dean Calamaras stated I was the worst thing that ever happened to Venice, then had to resign a week later in the media backlash aftermath.

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Ciao, baby.

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