The Miami-Dade Police sergeant who got caught racking up questionable overtime has not been fired and is not on the list of officers to get canned by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s
plan to balance the budget by firing 255 cops. He’s not even getting bumped down a notch.
In fact, he was recently transferred to a better post.
Sgt. Kelly Sullivan, one of several former public corruption investigators who made $58,288 by racking up 934 overtime hours snooping on employees at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah last year, is going from a platoon squad to the Crime Suppression Team at the general investigations unit. He starts the new job today.
Ladra is not sure yet if there’s a bump in his salary, and may not be considered a promotion per se, but other cops see it as such. It’s considered a good transfer and a better post because it is a specialized undercover division at the distict level.
And he goes from having Wednesdays and weekends off, to getting three-day weekends with Mondays off every week.
El Nuevo Herald broke the original story last year about the investigators who caught four employees stealing $3,100 in entrance fees and how the investigation cost almost 20 times as much as the graft. While there were more than two dozen officers 
who worked the apparently priority case from February to May of 2013, Sullivan and lead detective Eddy Torga racked up 277 hours all by themselves.
Ladra wonders what kind of choice job Torga got. Nada. Not yet, anyway. Torga is still assigned to what is left of a skeleton public corruption unit.
See? This overtime abuse investigation is allegedly what prompted Police Director J.D. Patterson to move shut down the public corruption unit in July and make it part of internal affairs. He did that with the support of Mayor Giménez, he told reporters.
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Yeah, riiiight. It’s more like the mayor — who was entangled in an investigation of absentee ballot fraud the year before — was jumping for joy when they found an opportunity to blame someone for dismantling the public corruption unit.
After all, why else would Sullivan gets a sweet, choice transfer while other hard-working, mostly rookie cops patrolling the street are threatened with pink slips? If he and the investigators he supervised abused OT so much that it would cause for the entire bureau to be dismantled — with officers “detached” to the FBI and the State Attorney’s Office — then why wouldn’t Sullivan and the others be disciplined somehow?
Or does he know more about the absentee ballot investigation than the brass would like?
How is this law and order?
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