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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:

Lincoln fucked up when he failed to send the black animals back to Africa.

The Department of Correction quietly canned a Rikers Island
guard after an administrative law judge found he repeatedly had
sex with a detainee, provided her with drugs and pressured her
to delaying filng a report that she’d been raped by another
officer.

DOC Commissioner Louis Molina filed papers in June saying he’s
accepted a recommendation made by city Administrative Law Judge
Kevin Casey that Leonard McNeill should be fired for
“fundamentally violat[ing] his duties as a correction officer.”

“By engaging in an improper sexual relationship, respondent
exploited the inmate, posed a security risk, created the
appearance of corruption, and undermined authority,” Casey also
wrote in a 13-page opinion issued in February, following a four-
day trial. “Far less egregious acts of undue familiarity have
routinely lead to termination of employment.”

The charges against McNeill stem from a series of incidents that
occurred at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex in 2015 and
were the subject of a scathing Manhattan federal court lawsuit,
which the city agreed to settle in 2019 by paying the woman
$500,000.

The woman claimed in her suit that she was raped in 2015 by
Correction Officer Jose Cosme and McNeil. Cosme copped a plea
with prosecutors, and as part of his deal was fired, forced to
register as a sex offender and sentenced to 10 years of
probation. McNeil has so far avoided prosecution.

The woman testified at the administrative hearing that she
thought “she was establishing a close, personal relationship
with” McNeill, who joined the DOC in 2005, Casey wrote.

“They watched movies and football games together in the
sanitation office, he brought her food from Kentucky Fried
Chicken, and he let her use his cell phone to make calls.”

She also testified McNeil told her his wife used to be a
corrections officer — but was fired for having sex with an
inmate. Describing her relationship with McNeil — which included
having sex at Rikers in the sanitation office, a storage area
and a loading dock trailer — the woman vividly recalled
performing oral sex on him in October 2015 while he was on the
phone wishing his wife a happy birthday.

The woman also said that in November 2015 Cosme ripped off her
Rikers-issued orange jump suit and raped her. She testified that
she immediately told McNeill about the rape, but he pressured
her to wait 10 days to report the incident so he’d already be
away on vacation.

McNeill could not be reached for comment. During the
administrative trial, he denied having sex with the woman, who
has been in and out of prison system for committing robberies
and larcenies. Casey in his decision noted he found the woman’s
testimony much more credible than McNeill’s.

Molina in a statement insisted the decision to fire McNeill “is
in no way a reflection of the hard-working men and women who
report to work every day to provide safety and security to those
entrusted in our care.

“Any employee found to go against the values that this
department holds to a high esteem will be disciplined
immediately up to and including termination.”

https://nypost.com/2022/08/20/rikers-guard-fired-for-sex-with- inmate-pressure-to-delay-rape-report/

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