Bill Bratton's Mystery WomanNYPD consultant operates in the dark

http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/2016/160530.html


Note from Suzannah -- Bratton stacked NYPD with "friends" on the payroll.
Excerpt from Levitt's column...

Bratton friend’s Robert Wasserman firm to get no-bid deal from NYPD | New York Post 
http://nypost.com/2015/01/05/bratton-friends-firm-gets-no-bid-deal-from-police/

Bill Bratton Collobrative Policing NYPD Collaborating to get him out of NYC
http://nypdnewcommission.blogspot.com/2016/05/bill-bratton-collobrative-policing-nypd.html?m=1

 #NYPD Bill Bratton Susan Herman Expensive Failure "Collaborative Policing"

Read about Bratton's book and collobrativepolicing backfiring? 
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2016/05/bill-bratton-collobrate-or-perish.html?m=1.   John Miller etc. 

@InsideCityHall Bratton $tacked NYPD w/ pals! Fix in http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2016/05/nypd-bill-brattons-mystery-woman-on.html?m=1

I know Bratton Kelly and Chiefs guilty my case fix was in.

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2016/05/cushman-wakefield-hired-ray-kelly-paid.html?m=1

Bill Bratton's Mystery WomanNYPD consultant operates in the dark

By Leonard Levitt – Monday, May 30th, 2016 ‘NYPD Confidential.Com’

(Op-Ed / Commentary)

Who is Beth Correia? 

What does she do for the NYPD for her $175,000 consultant’s fee? 

And what is her relationship to Commissioner Bill Bratton? 

Here is what NYPD Confidential knows: Correia is a Los Angeles-based attorney whom Bratton met while he was chief of the LAPD (2002-2009). The department was then under a court-appointed federal monitor. Correia specialized in risk management, collaborating with the monitor and tracking problem officers. 

Bratton became NYPD commissioner in 2014, when the department also was under a court-appointed federal monitor after the overuse of stop-and-frisk. He set up a similar risk-management operation to deal with the monitor and with what police officials say were thousands of resulting lawsuits. 

Starting in July 2014, the NYC Police Foundationpaid Correia $70,000 as a six-month consultant under then-deputy commissioner of legal matters, Douglass Maynard. According to a source at the foundation, the order came from Bratton’s office. 

Maynard is a former federal prosecutor who was appointed in January 2013. He resigned in August, 2014 — just a year and a half on the job — and returned to his former law firm. He did not respond to an email and phone call. 

His successor, Larry Byrne, said it would be “categorically false” to suggest that the resignation was related to Correia’s hiring. “He introduced me to Beth and never said anything negative about her,” Byrne said of Maynard. 

Although Correia works for the NYPD, she was not put on its payroll after her Police Foundation consultancy ended. Instead, said Byrne, she was placed on the city payroll with a salary not to exceed $175,000 over three years. Byrne said he did not know who decided the arrangement.  

Such a setup bares the fingerprints of Robert Wasserman, another Bratton consultant, who is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Police Foundation. He did not return phone calls or an email. 

Meanwhile, Bratton moved the risk management division to the office of First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker.  

But Correia has no office. She comes to New York maybe one or two weeks a month, Byrne said. For the past month, she could not be found at 1 Police Plaza. She did not return phone messages left at the NYPD’s legal bureau and other risk management offices. 

Byrne said she “technically” reports to Asst. Chief Matthew Pontillo, the commanding officer of the first deputy’s office. “But it is not a formal relationship,” he added. 

A call to Pontillo’s office was rerouted to the department’s public information office, which did not respond.