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| NYC Corrections Boss Calls it Quits |
| By New York Daily News |
| Published: 12/02/2002 |
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The scandal enveloping the city jails has claimed Correction Department Commissioner William Fraser. Fraser has resigned and will be replaced within weeks by Martin Horn, the current head of the city Probation Department, sources told the Daily News. Mayor Bloomberg, the sources said, was not pleased with Fraser's decision but agreed to let him go after an orderly transition could be organized. 'It was his choice,' one source said of Fraser's decision to resign. 'He is going out on his own terms.' The News revealed last month that Anthony Serra, a three-star chief in charge of Rikers Island, allegedly used officers to renovate his home and run a profitable political operation for Gov. Pataki on the side. A week ago today, the scandal came straight at Fraser when The News reported that four years ago he paid two correction officers to put a new liner in the above-ground swimming pool at his home. That night, one of the department's three uniformed unions issued a vote of no-confidence in Fraser. Fraser apparently felt the expanding probe, capped by the union rebuke, would be impossible to overcome, sources said. Fraser is the first high-level official to leave the administration of a mayor who has long prided himself on sticking by friends and supporters. As recently as last month, Bloomberg said he had full confidence in Fraser. Fraser joined the Correction Department in March 1978 and climbed through the ranks. Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani named him commissioner in November 2000, after Bernard Kerik vacated the post to take over the Police Department. Fraser and Kerik earned plaudits for reducing gang violence and restoring order to a once out-of-control Rikers jail. Horn, the former correction chief in Pennsylvania, was the first choice for the department by Bloomberg's postelection transition committee, sources said. |
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