Former Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and former county police chief James Burke plotted to remove Steve Levy as county executive because they saw him as "anti-cop" and "uncontrollable," according to newly unsealed court records. Newsday's Faith Jessie has more on this story with Newsday reporter Robert E. Kessler.


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