Ex-Lengthy Island DA jailed for corruption resurfaces as part-time, 83-year-old legislation clerk

He went from Suffolk County’s high prosecutor ruling with an iron-fist, to a felon, to a part-time paper pusher.

Disgraced former Suffolk District Legal professional Thomas Spota, who was canned on corruption costs and sentenced to 5 years for serving to cowl up the brutal beating of a handcuffed suspect — has quietly rebranded as a clerk for a Lengthy Island legislation agency.

Spota, now 83 and disbarred, is now working part-time below the supervision of Hauppauge-hotshot prison protection legal professional Anthony LaPinta, who beforehand defended him in court docket.

LaPinta’s workplace confirmed to The Put up that Spota has been working as an administrative clerk within the agency since final August, shortly after he was moved from federal jail in Danbury to group confinement.

“Mr. Spota has been below my direct supervision as an administrative clerk in my legislation workplace throughout his work-release designation and present supervised launch sentence,” LaPinta instructed Newsday.

Spota does administrative work as a “nonlawyer administrative clerk” for about 10 to fifteen hours per week for the agency and can stay on its payroll till at the very least the top of his supervised launch, in line with LaPinta.

In 2019, Spota and his former high anti-corruption deputy, Christopher McPartland, have been each convicted of conspiracy, obstruction, witness tampering and serving to to cowl up the savage 2012 assault of housebreaking suspect Christopher Loeb inside a Suffolk precinct.

Then-police Chief James Burke and three detectives have been mentioned to have carried out the beating.

Loeb was allegedly handcuffed and manically overwhelmed by the 4 officers inside a Suffolk police station after the suspect broke into Burke’s automobile and stole the police chief’s dildo and porn stash to promote for medicine.

Burke was sentenced to almost 4 years for the beating in 2016. He now faces one other stint in jail after he was busted for soliciting intercourse, and even masturbating in entrance of a plainclothes ranger at 10 a.m. in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Farmingville again in 2023.

Spota’s workplace was later convicted of attempting to bury the beating to defend his long-time good friend, and sentenced to 4 years after Burke’s conviction.

In 2020, Spota was sentenced to 5 years in jail and disbarred.

At his sentencing, he instructed the court docket he felt deep disgrace for the injury he brought about.

“I’ve additionally left [my family] with a shattered legacy and the stain of being a convicted felon.”