The New York Post by MURRAY WEISS, Criminal Justice Editor
March 18, 2008 -- An NYPD captain has pleaded guilty to submitting phony time sheets and accessing confidential computer records while he worked as a lieutenant in the department's corruption-fighting Internal Affairs Bureau, The Post has learned.
He's at least the third IAB boss to come under suspicion of wrongdoing in a year.
Capt. Steven Morrison, a respected 18-year veteran working as a detective zone commander in the Brooklyn South detectives squad, was hit with the loss of 30 vacation days after agreeing to a plea deal last week. Sources said an anonymous tipster informed officials that Morrison was claiming to be on time for his morning shifts when, in fact, he had yet to arrive on numerous occasions. Morrison's E-ZPass records did him in, sources said.
The records revealed that he was actually traveling to work through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when his time sheets stated that he was already at his IAB desk. The sources said Morrison, while still a lieutenant, also dipped into confidential IAB files to see which other lieutenants were under an IAB cloud and therefore ineligible for promotion to captain.
"IAB goes after cops to make sure that they don't do this stuff," another source added. "And here you have their bosses doing some of the very same things." Morrison's lawyer, Louis LaPietra, said that by taking a plea, his client was "acknowledging responsibility, taking a big hit and wants to put this behind him and get on with his life." murray.weiss@nypost.com
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