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Sustained applause welcomed Superior Court Judge Donald R. Venezia’s verdicts in favor of Capt. Danilo Garcia and Detective Thomas Aletta (above, right) .
Prosecutors accused both men of conspiring with Zisa to whitewash the probe of two suspects whose mother, Kathleen Tiernan, used to be the deposed chief’s girlfriend.
- ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: The verdicts upset Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli, as did a remark by the judge in which he suggested the prosecutor indulged in “Monday morning quarterbacking” of the department’s decision not to press charges against the teens. READ MORE….
Garcia and Aletta were tried separately from Zisa, who was convicted in September by a jury of official misconduct and insurance fraud.
Zisa was acquitted of conspiring with both men, and the judge threw out an official misconduct charge against the former chief. READ MORE….
STORY, PHOTO: Mary K. Miraglia
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