Email Author Sean Gardiner

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 8, 2008

  "Missing in Action"

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2008 Stories by Sean Gardiner

• No Witness Protection for Mobster Turned Snitch Joe Campy. PS: He's Hiding in Plain Sight.

  published September 23, 2008

  After Joseph "Joe Campy" Campanella spent 20 years as a loyal mobster for the Colombos, the family bumped off his mentor. Then they shot Joe... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  A Teen Private-In-Training Is Crushed to Death

  published July 29, 2008

  Not everyone in the military dies the heroic death of somebody like pro athlete turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman—as it turned out, not even... More >>

• Paroled Ex-Cons Make a Baby But Still Can't Live Together

  published July 23, 2008

  Placed together by the state Parole Division in a homeless shelter last summer, recently released convicts Crystal Boyd and Andre Gainey found... More >>

• NYPD's Schoolyard Bullies

  published July 16, 2008

  On March 6, after being dropped off at Middle School 88 in Park Slope by his father, a Manhattan court officer, Joshua Ramos was approached by... More >>

• NYPD's Busts Get Busted

  published July 2, 2008

  In the wake of numerous cases befouled by the misdeeds of NYPD narco cops, the department's steroid scandal is now further deflating the... More >>

• A G.I.'s Strange War Tale

  published June 17, 2008

  On March 4, 1944, after months of triple-digit temperatures in the steamy Burmese jungle—as well as battles against deadly typhus, a 96... More >>

• The NYPD Harasses a Photographer at Coney Island

  published June 10, 2008

  Manhattan commercial photographer Simon Lund loves Coney Island so much that he treks out there 10 to 20 times each summer to take pictures.... More >>

• After the Sean Bell Case, Bloomberg Still Starves the NYPD Watchdog

  published June 3, 2008

  Adding insult to fatal injury in the wake of the Sean Bell trial, Mayor Mike Bloomberg's administration is slashing its budget for the agency... More >>

• The NYPD Releases Detailed Data on Dogs They've Shot, But Not on The People

  published May 13, 2008

  Last week, the NYPD gave the City Council nine years' worth of previously confidential detailed reports on the department's shooting... More >>

• NYPD Inaction Over a Missing Black Woman Found Dead Sparks a Historic Racial-Bias Lawsuit

  published May 6, 2008

  Shortly before 7 p.m. on a spring evening in 2003, 21-year-old Romona Moore told her mother that she was going to the Burger King down the... More >>

• The NYPD 'Weeds' Out Blacks and Latinos

  published April 29, 2008

  In April 2001, when asked in an interview if he'd ever smoked pot, mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg replied: "You bet I did. And I enjoyed... More >>

• Bad NYPD Cops Only Get Tough Talk from the Civilian Complaint Board

  published April 22, 2008

  This is how toothless New York's civilian panel overseeing complaints against the city's police officers has become: In its April meeting, the... More >>

• Raising Bell

  published April 1, 2008

  The daily routines of life have to continue even for Calvin Hunt, who usually sits through every minute of the Sean Bell murder trial.... More >>

• An Advocate for Sean Bell's Family Tries To Get the Word Out

  published April 1, 2008

  The daily routines of life have to continue even for Calvin Hunt, who usually sits through every minute of the Sean Bell murder trial.... More >>

• The NYPD Ignores Leap Day Crimes to Keep Stats Low

  published March 18, 2008

  The NYPD has become so obsessed with trying to show an ever-lower crime rate that it erased February 29, 2008. That day, however, was... More >>

• Minnesota Cops Promise a Kinder, Gentler RNC

  published March 11, 2008

  The NYPD's heavy-handed suppression of protests during the 2004 Republican National Convention seems to have tarnished the reputation of the... More >>

• Parole Deal Dissolves

  published March 11, 2008

  Through the first 11½ months of Eliot Spitzer's now threatened reign as governor, 220 murderers, kidnappers, and arsonists were paroled.... More >>

• When Cops Go Bad Does the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Even Notice?

  published March 4, 2008

  While NYPD officials boast about what they claim is a steady drop in crime on the streets, crimes committed by cops may be on the... More >>

• The Sean Bell Curveball For Cops on Trial

  published March 4, 2008

  A week into the trial of three cops in the Sean Bell case, the prosecutors' theory that two of the cops were "acting in concert" when the... More >>

• Jury's Already Out on Sean Bell Case

  published February 26, 2008

  The jury was out on the Sean Bell case before the trial even started. Unwilling to gamble on sympathy from Queens jurors for three NYPD... More >>

• At Prey in the Fields of the Lord

  published January 29, 2008

  In the past 20 years, Robert Riggio has ripped off 114 Roman Catholic priests—a total that authorities say may be only a sliver of the real... More >>

• A Shot Reputation

  published January 29, 2008

  A well-known pharmacist gets involved with shady characters who force him to transform his neighborhood drugstore into an illegal steroid factory... More >>