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Rikers Island Jail Chief Demoted
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2003, page 25
Rikers Island supervisor Anthony Serra has been demoted from his $140,000 per year position as New York City jail chief amid allegations he improperly assigned underlings to work on Republican Governor George Pataki's re-election campaign. Serra was suspended from duty on October 22, 2002 after a city investigation was launched. ...
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