NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 1:18 AM
A city detectives union is blasting Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson’s firing of a low-level investigator it says was given the boot because he’s related to one of former DA Charles Hynes’ top lieutenants.
New York City Detective Investigators Association President John Fleming said the dismissal of 26-year-old Andrew Vecchione — son of former Rackets Bureau Chief Michael Vecchione — from his $ 55,000-a-year job was “based solely on political payback.”
“He was a grunt . . . the most basic of low-level investigators, and he was called into the chief’s office and was told that he had to resign or get fired,” Fleming said about the younger Vecchione’s termination. Thompson targeted the elder Vecchione in his campaign against Hynes, claiming that the bureau chief had intimidated witnesses.
Thompson said he would fire Michael Vecchione once he took office, but the seasoned prosecutor retired at the end of last year, before Thompson became DA .
A source at the Kings County District Attorney’s office said while most DA investigators are retired NYPD detectives, Andrew Vecchione was a security guard before being hired by Hynes’ office. A shake-up in the DA’s detective squad was expected as new Chief Investigator John Bilich, the NYPD’s former deputy commissioner of operations, puts together his team, the source said.
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