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Another Suffolk cop wins discrimination case

For the second time in a week, a federal jury has ruled that Suffolk County discriminated against one of its police officers. Jurors in Central Islip sided with Matthew Sforza, 38, a Suffolk County police officer who claimed in a lawsuit that he was denied promotion to sergeant because of a disability stemming from a back injury he sustained in the line of duty. "The jury found that a motivating...

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