“Don’t get me wrong, NYCHA needs carpenters,” said Beatriz Figueroa, 43. “With more than 11,000 employees, we have and will continue to hire formerly incarcerated persons who are qualified to perform their job duties while maintaining the safety of residents,” said Brancaccio.īut residents at Brooklyn’s Gowanus Houses weren’t looking to welcoming Schwarz into their homes anytime soon. Louima, now 52, declined to comment through his lawyer, and attempts to reach Schwarz for comment were unsuccessful. He’s now a carpenter assigned to Brooklyn. The next year, he started work as a NYCHA maintenance worker making $198 a day - and has climbed his way up since, records show. Schwarz in 2014 took Con Ed to court over the ouster, but the suit was thrown out. Schwarz’s initial conviction was overturned on appeal, and at retrial he was found guilty of a single charge of perjury, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison.Īfter his release, Schwarz briefly found work at Con Ed only to be fired within two weeks - not because of his conviction, but to head off a potential public-relations nightmare.

Volpe changed his plea to guilty midtrial, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Schwarz, now 54, was brought up on charges along with four fellow cops for the sodomy of Louima with a broom handle in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct station-house.Ī jury initially convicted Schwarz of helping lead the Haitian immigrant - who was being detained following a fracas at a nearby nightclub - into the cop shop’s bathroom, where Officer Justin Volpe carried out the sick assault. You’re talking about a guy who committed a crime as a city employee,” said the civil-rights activist, who noted that he will consult with his National Action Network on a possible campaign to push Schwarz out of his job. “It’s outrageous that Schwarz has a position on the public payroll. Al Sharpton, who in the late ’90s helped lead protests in the aftermath of the attack on Louima. Schwarz fully disclosed his criminal history prior to being hired and has thus far been an employee in good standing throughout his tenure at NYCHA,” said agency spokeswoman Barbara Brancaccio.īut that explanation was woefully insufficient for Rev. Ohio cop fired after unleashing K9 that mauled black trucker with hands upĬop sics K-9 on black trucker with hands up in shocking videoĪ disgraced former NYPD cop who served time in connection with the infamous station-house sex assault of Abner Louima is back on the city payroll with a sweetheart six-figure gig as a NYCHA carpenter, officials said.Ĭharles Schwarz, who did five years in federal prison for perjury stemming from the notorious 1997 police-brutality case, now rakes in $356 per day in taxpayer money - and was paid more than $114,000 in 2018 including overtime, public data show. Mississippi residents say cops' convictions for torturing 2 black men reveals culture of violence in departmentĦ white Mississippi cops plead guilty to torturing black men with sex toy, stun gun - and wounding one in 'mock execution'

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