Talk about taking one for the team.
Via The Daily Mail:
One of the high level NYPD officers who was being questioned in a federal corruption probe committed suicide at a Long Island golf course on Friday.
NYPD Inspector Michael Ameri, who was the commanding officer of the Highway District, reportedly killed himself at the Bergen Point Golf Course in West Bablyon about 12.45pm, according to the New York Daily News.
The 44-year-old divorcee was found with a gunshot wound to his head inside of a vehicle.
Ameri, who was a father to a teenage girl, was allegedly being questioned as part of the federal probe into corruption with the police department.
t’s unclear if he was a target of the probe or what role he may or may not have played in the scandal that has gripped the NYPD and mayor’s office in the last few months.
He joined the NYPD in 1993 and in 2014, Ameri left his position as commander of the 78th Precinct in Prospect Heights to lead the NYPD’s Highway Patrol unit after working their since December 2011.
At the time of his departure, Wayne Bailey, president of the precinct’s community council told the NY Daily News that he had done ‘good things’ for the area.
‘He’s done such good things for the betterment of all traffic and street safety, so him being there is going to be seismic in changes for the city,’ Bailey said.
Last month, New York City’s ultra-Liberal mayor Bill de Blasio was thrown into the center of a wide-ranging corruption probe where the FBI was closing in on top officers in the city’s police department.
Two major de Blasio donors are at the center of the scandal that led to the NYPD’s chief on Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side placed on modified duty.[…]
The dramatic moves last month of disciplining officers came after it was revealed that Philip Banks, the force’s highest-ranking black officer, who quit in 2014 rather than accept promotion to what he considered a desk job, was also under investigation over hundreds of thousands of dollars that had appeared in his bank accounts.
De Blasio had considered Banks for the top job of police commissioner but in the end passed him over and chose former LAPD chief Bill Bratton instead. Banks rejected the post of second-in-command and went to work as head of security for a medical marijuana distribution company.