Nearly two dozen NYPD officers are under investigation as a result of the recent arrest of a lieutenant and a detective involved in a protection racket for karaoke clubs and bar owners in Flushing, DNAinfo New York has learned.
Two captains, three lieutenants, three sergeants, three detectives and 12 police officers are now under a cloud in the aftermath of a two-year investigation that ended in December with the arrest of Lt. Robert Sung and Detective Yatyu Yam of the 109th Precinct, according to confidential NYPD documents obtained by DNAinfo's “On the Inside.”
The internal records include the names, photos and possible violations of department or criminal regulations each of 23 officers may have committed, but provide few specifics.
Sources say some allegations come from Yam, 35, who was arrested by Internal Affairs Bureau investigators and prosecutors from the Queens District Attorney’s Office, and taken to a secret location in a hotel where he was debriefed over two days.
The strongest evidence, however, was captured on recordings and surveillance tapes that shows Sung and Yam convincing fellow officers not to raid the clubs they were protecting or to free customers being handcuffed for using drugs there.
Sources say that instead of listening to Sung and Yam, the officers should have notified IAB or their supervisors about possible corruption, as is required by NYPD policies.
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I am shocked to find that this could be going on here in Crappy Flushing !
Disturbing.
>taken to a secret location in a hotel where he was "debriefed" over two days.
That doesn't sound sinister at all!
FINALLY! IT'S ABOUT TIME! I could have told them about these cover ups years ago just by looking at flushing! All of flushing is a crime scene!
They sit in their cars and do nothing. The blatant lawlessness all around Flushing can be traced back to and largely blamed on the sleeping 109 precinct.
"....criminal regulations each of 23 officers may have committed.."
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What percent of the total precinct does this represent?
Gee..IT IS about time.
The crooked 109th has been fronting for illegal Chinese activities since the early 1990s.
Prostitution nets crooked cops thousands in tax free income.
They get payed and laid in return for looking the other way to the roughly 41 brothers that were operating RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES since 1989!
We've been waiting for this since those first two cops were arrested.
Yet, as long as there is illegal gambling and peostitution you will continue to breed crooked cops!
That has been the case throughout history in amy country.
The lure of cash and free vagina attracts borderline cops into becoming criminals themselves.
That is the way the world works.
And in Flooshing, the Asian way is illegal sex and gambling.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Now let's clean up the crooked Community Board 7!
Exactly why the feds need to step in here.
Top to bottom corruption everywhere.
How are they able to operate the gambling dens, whore houses, illegal restaurants, hotels all these years is beyond belief.
About 20% now. Will probably be about 50% once the investigation is completed.
Haven't heard much about this on the 5 o'clock newscasts. Why is this story being given a pass??
And how long before Dep. Inspector Conforti looses his command. He has always been approachable, and a gentleman but one has to wonder if he has been tarred by this scandal coming on his watch. The PC seems by recent actions to be keeping a strong grip in dealing with misconduct issues. Just wondering.
RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES since 1989!
Don't forget the brothels were (are) advertising in the local newspapers also.
Talk about blatant, in your face.
After years of blogging about corruption here and at other sites investigators were forced to clean up the mess,it's like EVERYBODY KNEW about the corruption except 1 Police Plaza ?,Now all the investigation has to do is connect the corruption to the pimps who ordered it and those pimps would be the elected officials who ORDERED THE PROTECTION
IT'S A FACT AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
YOU CAN NOT ARREST AND ASIAN IN FLUSHING BEFORE CHECKING WHO HE IS CONNECTED TOO.I'VE SEEN IT FIRST HAND.
God forbid I make an illegal turn near the Main Street are where 90 percent of the turns are illegal. Then 5 cops would be up my white ass
The FUN11 is next.
All it took was a 20 grand fine set up by Chuck Schumer to squash the failed arson of the RKO Kieths to get Tommy Wong back to the USA after he fled to avoid jail,charges had to be dropped to get him back so the money machine could crank back up,they are all corrupt.
Now how about busting the many so-called "Spas" that have proliferated in Flushing. These are just low class whore houses and everyone knows it.
Also, how about further investigation into the Nail Salons. On the east side of Francis Lewis Boulevard between 33rd and 34th avenues there are FIVE Nail joints.
Guaranteed they ain't doing just nails.
To bad the article doesn't mention that the 109 is 99 percent Asian cops,
I wonder how that ever happened?
Wasn't Conforti sent there to clean up the precinct? He's a good man and only wants the best for residents .
When I lived in Flushing years ago I saw cops going through red lights with impugnity. It's like they were entitled to be brazen about flaunting the law.
To bad the article doesn't mention that the 109 is 99 percent Asian cops,
I wonder how that ever happened?
Gee, I wonder. Maybe if they didn't fill the precinct with mirror images of the neighborhood they wouldn't be as inclined to protect the brothels and gambling ring out of some sense of Asian brotherhood.
Follow the money people.
I see plenty of half unmarked cruisers waiting for slightly speeding drivers in Flushing, mostly on the residential streets and avenues.
Easy tickets! Revenue generating.
Especially now that 25Mph is the speed limit.
At 30Mph you get clipped.
Heck even at 26Mph.
Meanwhile gambling, prostitution and various illegal activities are ignored.
I don't blame the *good* cops as they take orders from higher ups.
Now imagine what happens when a bad cop figures out the system?
1% raise, ticket quotas, pressure to generate revenue.
In order to stop all this non-sense the system needs to be reformed and pay the police officers good salaries, raises , so bribes are less attractive.
Imagine if officers would get $32K raises like the lazy political hacks.
I just happened to be speaking to a retired Mid MANHATTAN NYPD detective who lives in northeast Queens.
He noted that the 109th PCT has "always been a problem".
It's been always known as the "promotion precinct". Only federal monitoring of this shady precinct can guarantee this will not happen again.
And where was Peter Koo... pulling on his sausage? Does he ever know what is going on? All you get is his blank Oriental smile whenever he is questioned on anything important. When Julia Harrison was the council member, she was fully in touch with the issues going on within her district. She once went after one of the 109th's commanders for something, and he wound up,being posted up in the Bronx somewhere.
Yeah...and for Julia's concern she got railroaded and branded as anti Asian.
She was too effective in her job so they had to soil her hard working reputation and tarnish her with phony accusations.
At her lowest ebb, after the hatchet job, she still won re-election with 65% of the vote!
If she wasn't term limited out she would still be our Councilmember, and Flushing would have looked and smelled a whole lot better!
I hate to sound racist, but: 162nd STREET IS A CESSPOOL! CLEAN IT UP, 109!
Oh wait, that wasn't racist at all. I'm just sick of whorehouses, gambling dens and 24 hour churches.
I just happened to be speaking to a retired Mid MANHATTAN NYPD detective who lives in northeast Queens.
He noted that the 109th PCT has "always been a problem".
All of us who live in the area for long time now made the same observation.
Something is not right.
As for Julia Harrison, she was really great! What a lady!
These newer generation hacks can't even shine her shoes.
Yesterday people here were commenting in this thread that the police only seem to be interested in giving out petty driving tickets for absurd new rules.
Today Crappy confirmed that those tickets are officially the city government's new and main priority: http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2016/03/is-dot-ignoring-graffiti-due-to-vision.html
How about the gambling den disguised as a one family house (not) on the corner of 160th Street and 25th Drive? I know I have seen the pictures here.
http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2014/08/this-is-not-new-building-flushing.html
Who the fuck is protecting the owners in this fucking business that pays no taxes and ruins everybody's quality of life by turning this sleepy neighborhood into Main Street Flooshing better yet Macau of Queens?
Where the fuck is 109 on this one? over 30 complaints of illegal business, prostitution.
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/ComplaintsByAddressServlet?requestid=1&allbin=4110500
Talk about fucked up.
Where is the community officer? Is he protecting this criminal enterprise?
Federal investigation now!
What about the half dozen "clubs, foot massage, skin care,etc" businesses operating around Depot Road, 164th St. Crocheron vicinity?
WHORE HOUSES! Pick up and deliver sex. This quiet little area is not so quiet. Then there is drugs on the underpass ramp at the Broadway station. The authorities were informed.NADDA! Next time the FBI gets called. The crooked 109th is in on those activities too.
Cops have been seen there. We're they getting a foot massage? Cash is always a happy ending.
The listed owners of the property at 25-19 160 Street are Guo Qing Liao and Yuping Ye.
I really like Police Commissioner Bratton. I really do.
But in this case I have to disagree with him.
Doesn't matter if 2 cops are corrupt or 23.
Needs to be fixed, cleaned up and move on by restoring the quality of life in the area.
http://qns.com/story/2016/04/01/one-cop-fired-amid-bribery-probe-in-flushings-109th-precinct-bratton/
Also thanks to Commander Conforti and all the *good and honest* cops of 109th by starting to clean up the neighborhood.
http://qns.com/story/2016/03/30/deputy-thomas-conforti-massage-parlor-illegal-crackdown-will-continue/
Please don't stop, keep going and lets get this mess cleaned up.
Much appreciated!
WTF is BFHA doing about the 164st whore houses?
Not much. As long as assistant DA Hanophy, their president, is cozy with law enforcement, nobody can bring up this issue of police corruption. One hand washes the other.
When Hanophy's term is up, do not let him remain on BFHA's board. He is a do nothing.
LOL! Hostess Maria is going to give those massage parlors historic plaques.
Both Maria and Bobby are always kissing Paul Vallone's ass. Why hasn't ol' chrome dome done anything about 164th Street? He's too busy lobbying for his developer clients to give a shit about quality of life problems in his fucking district!
I have see Parking ticket officer. have 3-4 tickets printed from the handheld, never leave it on the windshield. although I show photo proof, no one care.
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