Who's to blame now? Thank you mayor maturo for re-instating gallo against better judgement. So who thought April had a witch hunt??? Well it just came back and gave u the boot because the DOJ did their jobs and look what we got. A racist bunch of cops with a shatty leader as a chief.
What to do now joe? Oh ya your blind to the complete obvious u still think gallo is innocent.

My guess is Gallo will slip out with a nice pension and leave the taxpayers with the manure sandwich he made for them. He wrecked the department long before this stuff arose, this is just the icing on the cake. I feel bad for the cops that got stuck working for him.

I can't believe Maturo actually went on the News and tried to blame the previous administration as this "mostly happened" while she was Mayor. Someone get that man a calendar.
Read the whole report, and tell me Gallo's fit to lead a dept and doing his job.
Then tell me a bunch on these guys don't deserve to be in handcuff's. Hell they tried to intimidate the feds! Imagine what they're doing to citizens.

I've lived in East Haven for 25 years. I can't believe that man, Maturo, actually went on camera with that BS. Mayor Capone did exactly the right thing by putting Chief Gallo on leave. She was privy to a lot of facts about this case but was not allowed to speak about it. The problem with the PD did NOT start during her administration. It was rampant during the 10 years Maturo was mayor and the "Good Ol' Boys" used to joke about it (remember the T-shirts?) Who does he think he's kidding? The republicans effectively used this issue during the last campaign, pitting the EHPD supporters (the factless) against Mayor Capone. Well, now they got what they wanted. They certainly succeeded at putting East Haven on the map for having the most uninformed, gullible electorate in the state who put this backward, ignorant and racist administration back in office. It should get real interesting from here on. God help us.

Guess the feds never saw anybody as dumb as ole Joe. Guess he is gonna have
that high priced attorney Hugh Keefe sue the civil rights division of the government of the USA for slander. Guess he forgot East Haven is part of the USA and folks in East Haven have to obey federal law. Guess he forgot cant sue the federal government and you gots to do what they say "end of story".He needs to get a good attorney with experience in this. Lil Zollo is lost. Keefe only knows how to fight lawsuits folks bring. He needs someone with some brains upstairs. Here comes another big tax increase. Really wonder if he had to do it over iffen he would have
hired Gallo all those years ago. With a friend like him, heck who needs enemies.
Gallo is gonna ruin ole Joes reputation in town for sure. Folks not gonna fall for
puttin the blame somebody else. This one is in Gallo and Ole Joe's lap. Round one
down. Round two to go. Wonder how many of those fancy federal indictments are
a comin. This is just our appeetizer. Main course to come and then there is the just
desserts. Better send all the taxpayers a bottle of tums and excedrin with their next
tax bill.

All I can say is what a joke. This was absolutely a witch hunt with April leading the charge as lead witch. I fully support our police department, and I thank them for keeping us safe, and doing the job they are paid to do. If you are legal you have nothing to worry about. If you are illegal, stay the heck out of my town. Stay in New Haven where you are welcome.

This is all thanks to the lack of leadership in the police department. We have some very fine officers who are the absolute best in the area. I wish they didn't have to go through this horrendous event. The mayor needs to realize that we need new leadership back in the department. The former mayor made the right move by doing what she did in all aspects. I only hope the new mayor will do the same.

Is this guy serious? All he is doing is ticking off the feds even more, and guess who's going to pay the price? Union members that campaigned their butts off for him. And he's already been on the news stating this has nothing to do with chief gallo, so it appears the administration is going to protect gallo and throw the union guys and gals under the bus. Don't say I didn't warn ya!

They'll identify the cops in the indictments I'm sure joey..

Looks like some people are waking up.. MATURO is only about helping himself and his buddies (gallo) .. There are a lot of changes coming to east haven.. Don't be surprised if MATURO gets the cuffs himself .. It's going to be a interesting year that's for sure

I guess Mr. Finkle made the right decision and hope to see him in the next election

This is absolutely ridiculous come on people I'm so sick of hearing that our police force is racist or racially profiling anyone. Hey how about this don't break the law and you wont have to deal with any police force in any town. I am a white female who would love to pull a race card when dealing with the police, etc but oh that's right the caucasian community doesn't have that luxury. Seems simple people have your cars registered, insured, have a valid license and obey the rules of the roads set forth by the department of motor vehicles and you won't have any problems !!!!!!!!!!!

Rosie, with all due respect, you shouldn't call anyone names. By calling the former mayor a witch, it makes your opinion seem less valuable. But really Rosie, are you saying this is all April's fault?

Anthony, I couldn't agree with you more. I know how she is as we have had our differences before. We have a bad reputation not only because of how some people act, such as her, but also what our politics was like before April came in. Not saying it was all mayor Maturo's fault. I'm just saying we ha a bad rep, it started to get better, but now bad again.

Lets see. The new mayor reappoints Gallo just before this report comes out, getting him back online before the true story came out. Gallo's first action is to bar the Board of Police Commisioners access to the department premises, an idiotic action he had to rescind almost immediatley. Now the report comes out with findings that anyone with an open mind and common sense is not surprised to hear. Maturo's reaction is that the report is slanderous? Who would like to bet that Mayor Maturo could not define "slander" if given a week to research it? This town is a joke! The fact that we re-elected a man who obviously lacks in intelligence, common sense, integrity and backbone is a disgrace. He is off to a flying start damaging our already putrid reputation. Our reputation as a bigotted town will only improve when good people will stand up and address the long standing problem we have with treating everyone fairly. A true leader would listen to what the report has to say and take decisive action to remedy the problems. Instead, be ready for blind denials and subtle innuendo blaming the minority victims for daring to try and make a nice life for themselves in this town.

Today’s events by the DOJ are just the beginning of a sad era for East Haven. This day will show that a change in Mayor, Town Attorneys, Chief of Police and Police Commissioners will not make the DOJ and FBI leave East Haven until the truth is out for all of our citizens to see for themselves just what has been happening in our town.
It’s too bad that a good administration paid the price. In the end East Haven is the big loser because of this mess.
Stand by; this is not over yet, not by a long shot.
Gene Ruocco

hey gene you are gone stay out of this. thanks to our former mayor april and her gang of thieves . april has a lot of skelatons in her closet. she was the worse. she was a puppet for the rest of her gang she had a mouth like a sailor. and her friend erica. where has she been lately??.

Stella, no one is ever gone. If we live in this town we have a voice. What he is saying is true. And April was not a puppet. This is a federal report. I'm just curious about what the FBI will be saying in their report.

EHPD needs to obtain a 'Plate Finder' like Branford did. It does a wonderful job of finding mis-use of plates without 'profiling'. Have the sector cars patrol with it near the NH line and get them as they try to come in. The Western end of Main street seens to be getting a little south of the borderish....keep pushing them back west where Mayor D wants them!

Mr. Patrick the worst yet to come. Like that professor said in the register. East Haven has a stain on it now. The whole country will be lookin at us like a bunch of losers and bigots. Probably make a movie bout us now. The fella that played Kramer from Sienfeld can play ole Joe, Danny Devito Mr. Art, casting Gallo gonna be a tough one. Nope waitin for all my outta town kin to start callin and askin me why
I pick such a place to live.

i agree about the plate finder, im not racist i just believe you should have a registered and insured car, its not the police fault if many of the ppl down main st are latinos who are here illegally and dont have registered cars , my car wasnt registered i was pulled over by a black police officer and my was car towed,. i didnt cry discrimination
,why should they be any diff,

It is time to begin the talks that the people of EH all need to hear, Impeachment is the only way to get this town back on track and rid us of these fools that have been put back in office. I would urge that the people of this town investigate the impeachment process and take all required steps to get it underway. This is a great forum to begin that process as many on this site appear to have access to this information. Please share your thoughts.

It is funny how the mayor operates. In his first term in office after the Luzzi administration he buddied up with the FBI to clean up the mess he was left with. Now he insults the 2-year investigation done by the same men and women. He continues to put his foot in his mouth over and over again and the we have to pay the price. Maturo, Desorbo, Gallo the three stodges all need to go. And this coming from a conservative.

The truth came out
We have several good officers I am sure but it only take one or two that ignore
federal law and people were looking the other war either out of fear for retaliation or as members of the good old Boys that's the way it was always done
Now it is interesting as the charges fully UN fold just who the offenders were and how high does the corruption GO

Whoever thinks that the police are here to protect us is a fool or so blind that he is hopeless and will never know what I am about to claim.
1. All City, State and Federal governments and police departments are corporations, in violation to the Constitution, for the fact that they are PRIVATE FOR PROFIT corporations owned by foreign entities,
2. All Statutes, rules and regulations of the corporations are not positive law.
3. We are ruled by International Admiralty Law of the seas upon the land. Again in violation to the Constitution.
4. We are considered propery of the State, because the rulers are all socialists and we have been a socioalist corporation since 1933.
5. Our money is called a Federal Reserve NOTE. It is a debt instrument owed to the International Bankers that own all of us, without our knowledge or consent.
6. All wars were and will be for only the benefit of the International Bankers, we die so they can profit.
7. The CIA, FBI, HLS, FEMA, POLICE DEPTS., etc and ect., are here to protect the State and NOT the people. These are their armies and we are considered the enemy.
8. Attorneys and judges are foreign agents of the foreign owned corporations.
There is NO way out unless we oppose them, they are the terrorists and we are the insurgents, or freedom fighters.
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
THE RONBOT HUNTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

I wish Joe just kept quiet yesterday. How about telling the local media that the EHPD is looking forward to working with the DOJ and following through on their suggestions. He made us all look terrible yesterday. I have supported Joe in the past. I'm ashamed today. April didn't need to hold a press conference either...but I understand why she did. We have good police officers here. Men and women that care. When you have bad leadership in any business, everyone looks bad. Joe's comments may turn up the heat a bit. Has he ever heard the phrase..."Don't poke the bear?"

If these rogue cop clowns would only have done their jobs properly (lawfully uphold the law), they wouldn't have to worry about Manship or anybody else videotaping them. They wouldn't have to falsify reports throwing the entire department (including the many good cops) under scrutiny.

There's only one solution here. Mayor Maturo needs to grow a pair and terminate the rogue clowns and the chief clown. Do it Joe; for the good of the Town.

Most of the comments here are as rediculous as the people writing them,If the EHPD and Chief Gallo committed acts of discrimination than why are there no specific incidents or charges and why would it take 3 years to file this report,Face it April fans they have nothing, All the DOJ has done is open the floodgates for a bunch of frivolous law suits to be filed against the town by the very criminals that the Police Department protects us from.

Basically the report does not give specifics. It all boils down to a slap on the wrists and some policy changes, two years of wasted time and wasted tax payer money. I could have written the same report, come to the same conclusion and saved the town a ton of money.

I hope Joe is holding down spending since the legal fund will need all the money it can get from this spiraling nightmare that happened under Joe and Lenny's watches.

Maturo can say whatever he wants but he needs to realize all he is doing is exposing himself as a liar. He fooled people into voting for him and within weeks proved he has no business being the mayor. Is there a law against his ridiculous, full of lies campaign strategies, that's what people should pursue. He lied about paying two chief and he lied about rollback checks. Now he's blaming the old administration for the problems with the PD, how ridiculous. He reappointment his buddy after Capone made a wise decision that protected the towns people from further backlash from a rogue, non-compliant supervisor. He clouded all that reality and did what he wanted. He set the taxpayers up for more legal expenses. If you voted for him because of his lies you should do something about it. Looks like this town is going to be beyond bankrupt after his stay this time.

It sure is a good thing our elected officials don't make their decisions based on the dribble and rhetoric found here. That DOJ report said NOTHING that we didn't already expect to hear. It's based on liberal "politically correct" tripe. But go ahead and keep blowing smoke, and mis-information about what it is, and what it means. Maturo showed plenty of "backbone" supporting the chief and the department, that support IS in our best interest. Standing firm as a community says, we are NOT racists. We are fair minded and "law abiding", it says if you're not KEEP OUT! We don't care if you're Black, Blue, Brown, Yellow or White, if you are breaking our laws you will be held accountable!
I say fight the fight, and protect OURS!

luigi, some feel Maturo isn't supporting the cops. He supposedly said to the media that this has nothing to do with the chief. So if it refers to the police department and has nothing to do with the chief then who does it have to do with?

The big lie, we never had 3 chiefs, we had an inspector making his pay as acting chief, we had an asst. chief as per PERF OH and we had 2 DOG CATCHERS

Wowsers, it's "possible" that one or more officers acted in an over jealous manner. Pulling over cars has to be nerve racking work. If that's true, and I'm NOT saying it is, the chief could not have known until it was reported.

Former Mayor April Capone weighs on on the results of the Justice Department's probe into the East Haven Police Department http://patch.com/A-p8ZK

Hey Harry, they had no plate reader when this all went down. They've had that plate reader less then a year now.

I feel like a lot of people either don't know or don't want to admit the facts. For off, there was never three police chiefs. We had a chief on administrative leave, a deputy chief which was recommended by the PERF report, and an acting chief who was paid his inspector pay. Also, all the issues happene under police chief Gallo, not under another chief. Lastly, most police officers aren't involved in this. We have some great officers they are just caught up in a situation with the bad officers.

Anyone who says there is no detail in the report must not have read it. BTW - The 23 page letter to Maturo has plenty of detail in it, perhaps he should READ it! It is interesting that a town with plenty of citizens of Italian descent is so prejudice and racist. Just imagine 75 years ago - when your Italian immigrant parents and grandparents came here, they may have had a green card or maybe they were citizens, but because they spoke broken English and couldn't read English, the White police wanted the 'without papers' WOPs out of town. It is just a new group trying to make their way in the good ol USA. If you don't like it maybe you should look into getting a ticket onto a boat headed for Italy.

Agreed, Anthony, no one, including the police, is above the law. If they are breaking laws, they should be puished just like anyone else. What I am saying is that I am so sick of the race card being played. "Boo Hoo, poor me, I am being picked on" and then screaming about civil rights being violated. Like I said, if you are legal, and following the laws, you have nothing to worry about. If you are not, then you deserve to get caught. And I for I hope you do.

**oops, punished

Prediction....ole joe stonewalls, the Feds go to court...the court slaps East Haven with a
mandatory decree. The feds come in appoint their own people to give oversight to the
pd. They start instituting all new policies and police our police. The grand jury hands
down 10 indictments. Gallo and his cronies are shown the door. THe PD finally gets
back on the right track. The priest wins his lawsuit. Ole Joe comes out lookin inept.
He makes excuses, opts not to run again. Finkle comes back and runs. The dems
find a new "shin star" to run. And it two years, its jes politics as usual in this burg,
except our taxes are a higher and we had to pay the price for all the shennigans.
Life goes on and folks forget all bout it until the next big mess comes along. Folks in this town forgets about the mess with the feds when ole Tony was Mayor, they forgets
about the mess, with the missing $75,000 check that fell behind the file cabinet for two years, they forgets about the mess with embezzled federal funds by madonna under luzzi....our burg has an illustrious history. We never stop makin the front page. Yup this here will pass and somethin new will come along for sure.

Luigi original go to the East Haven Politics blog website. Read the report. Bottom of page 19 tells it all. If I got now jaw or spine and you read this and think the same, then you gots no brains. Its all pretty clear in that report. Calling names not gonna make this go away.

Why do so many of our fine citizens believe that the DOJ is really basing their findings on legitimate stops for unregistered vehicles. Do they really believe the Feds are that stupid. Open your narrow minds and admit there were real civil rights violations here. It sounds like we have a large section of town raised by Archie Bunker when they defend the actions of the police based on "THEY don't speak english " or "THEY drive unregistered cars" or "THEY should obey the law like the rest of us" . A two year investigation an unbiased group of professionals has resulted in this action by the DOJ. Don't try and blame it on the victims.

The DOJ is a FEDERAL, yes, FEDERAL department. Your small time policitical opinions serve absolutely no purpose. They came here for a reason, something was wrong. They have concluded their investigation saying what we all knew was true. Trust me, the federal government has better things to do than lie or write a report based on political lines. What they said is obviously fact and if you choose to believe it isn't fact, then there is no hope in trying to persuade you because your political opinions are blocking your view of the situation.

Ohhh, it's the "Federal" government, my bad. I thought it was only some local DOJ. Our "federal" government hasn't ever imposed their own agenda on anyone, or any entity. EVER. What was I thinking? It must be my narrow mind again. I should "trust" Patrick because he "knows" the "Federal" government would never intervene for political reasons. If they say we did it, it must be so! THANKS Patrick you're the smartest.....!!

For the rest of you folks here is a definition you may find appropriate for Patrick.

na·ive or na·ïve (n-v, nä-) also na·if or na·ïf (n-f, nä-)
adj.
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
b. Unsuspecting or credulous: "Students, often bright but naive, betand losesubstantial sums of money on sporting events" (Tim Layden).
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).

My guess is that lance guy,hundo,queen april and gino all get loockjaw and shut up1

None of us don't really know what the facts will actualy show as far as this investigation is concerned, for it has yet not been completed. But I strongly recommend that the readers research Thomas Perez, the Asst. Atty. Gen. in the Civil Rights Div. Biggest concern is when complaints were made by whites, his office rejected them. Lawyers in his office were transfered out for complaining when white cases were brought up, and was blatently pushing for black & hispanic cases only.

Look at what happened in the voter intimidation incident with the Black Panther party during the 2008 presidential race. When investigated by the DofJ, all attorney's involved in pressing the case against the black group were transfered out and prohibited from testiying. This man has a history of picking on whites, and no doupt is under orders from Eric Holder. As well as there is a perjury case being presented against Perez for lying in investigations to make his case(s). Just research this man and make up your own mind.

Hahahahaha, Luigi, you are so funny. I was nice and not rude to you at all. But you know what Luigi? You do a lot of talking on Patch. Would you like to meet up and discuss politics? Guarantee you won't because you need to hide behind your alias. You have a big mouth when it comes to insulting our federal government. They don't just do things to do them. They have reason to.

Luigi, you just proved my point. Using your alias is your way to prance around town "proudly". Well Luigi, if you were a real man you would say who you are like I do. But let's keep it to this article, bottom line is wrong was done and the federal government had to come in to fix it. By the way, I am not so liberal so I wouldn't be making accusations. There are several opinions that I have which are conservative which is why I typically identify myself as a moderate.

Good question Luigi. When will you learn? Probably never. It won't change your mind but I am confident that there will be plenty of facts revealed that will back up the report. Let's wait and see, but like I said, I doubt that your opinion will change regarding the people "living among us" in "our" town. By the way. Are there undocumented Italians, Irish Polish etc living among us as well. If so, do they register their vehicles or break the law more often than us "regular folk" too. Just askin since you seem to know a lot about undocumneted persons and their habits.

OK Patrick as long as "you" feel vindicated by your own comments, bravo to you. Now as to my desire to remain anonymous, I've spoke of this often. It is my prerogative, if you don't like it, tough. I could care less if it offends you somehow. Knowing my name or who I am has no bearing on my opinion, it's still my opinion. If you believe the Feds came in here to "fix" anything, that's your opinion and I would disagree. Now, I know your name, big deal, does it change your opinion? Lastly, you consider yourself a "moderate"? interesting, a moderate in the same vain as Al Gore or Jimmy Carter, maybe. But like it or not, you are a liberal, your posts are all liberal, your dribble is all liberal. Good night.

Luigi, I see what you're saying. Unfortunately for you, I probably know more about politics than you. You cannot tell me WHAT I am in the POLITICAL SPECTRUM. But the point here is, remain anonymous so you can prance around town like a big boy and be happy. Whatever makes you happy! :) Anyway. The Feds ARE here to fix something. Something that went on too long and is finally getting fixed.

Patrick, you sound like a smart guy - It certainly has been amusing reading your discourse with Luigi. At least now I don't feel alone. He jumps all over me whenever I post in here. Its great to have a local arena to post our thoughts and concerns. However, after reading in here for awhile, I sometimes come away thinking Luigi and Rosie are the same person, just male & female alter egos on a mission to dumb-down this site. I gave up on any rational conversation. The HuffingtonPost.com ran the EHPD story yesturday, now that's a place where you can get into some interesting commentary and ideas at a higher level of intelligence than you will find in here. Check it out.

CitizenVoice, you are most likely right about them being the same person. But I bet you're right about the interesting convos on the HuffingtonPost because that right there is a true political story. Thank you for your support! :)

Every Latino & Hispanic family here lives in fear of the EHPD. We're not talking illegals here. We're talking Latino citizens who get caught up in the EHPD over-zealo­us and routinely disrespect­ful roustings in search of law-breaki­ng "illegals"­, mostly in motor vehicle stops. Of course, there are some illegals but they are small in number compared to the many who are harrassed because of their ethnicity. East Haven has been a notoriousl­y racist town for years. It wasn't all that long ago when crosses were burned in the shoreline section of the town and black people were very aware they were not welcome here. To this day, there are few black families living here. Police sported "Boyz-On-T­he-Hood" tee-shirts depicting cops slamming (obviously­) black men on the hoods of cars. All this condoned by the "Good Ol' Boy" Maturo admin. that was recently put back in power. We had a 4 year break with Mayor Capone, who had taken steps to remedy this ugly situation, including putting the Chief Of Police on leave while the DOJ did its investigat­ion. Unfortunat­ely, she lost re-electio­n this past Nov by 35 votes. Now we're back to the same people who turned their back on all the racist practices for many years. In fact, the 1st thing Maturo did when he assumed office was reinstate the Chief Of Police just days before claiming he was "ambushed" by the DOJ report. This town has taken a giant step backwards and I fear the worst is yet to come.

Julie & Patrick: Another good blog site is http://crooksandliars.com/. Its loaded with timely, pertinent and fact-checked info. You're sure to find it entertaining and refreshingly honest.

Where is Mr. Dan? Did he leave town? Maybe he postin under an alias.
I sure he has things to say about all the goin ons. All the big stuff comin down
now. This was Christmas. Wonder what New Years will bring.

Ding, ding, ding!!! Bingo Rory you are exactly right!!!!

huffington post is a pro obama propaganda site.

Welll I suppose one would think that if all they were used to is FOX, Limbaugh &
Beck hate radeo & similar right-wing web sites, but it doesn't make it true. Some of the reporting may be a little over the heads of the un & misinformed. All I can do is lead the horse to water....

And Maturo proves to be right yet again. Wheres are all the apologies?

Right about what?

Now you got me iterested. What exactly was he right about?