THE LAWTop Aides Shuffled In Nassau DA's Office NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition

The Nassau District Attorney's Office is shuffling theleadership of three investigative bureaus following a decision by the Rackets Bureau chief to go into private practice. Joel Weiss, 35, who has headed the Rackets Bureau since June, 1983, is leaving his post Jan. 14 to go into private practi...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Robin Topping and Rick Brand
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 05.01.1988
EditionCombined editions
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Boyle, E Thomas
Bracken, Martin
Halpin, Patrick
Weiss, Joel
Zwirn, Benjamin
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Summary:The Nassau District Attorney's Office is shuffling theleadership of three investigative bureaus following a decision by the Rackets Bureau chief to go into private practice. Joel Weiss, 35, who has headed the Rackets Bureau since June, 1983, is leaving his post Jan. 14 to go into private practice in Mineola with Benjamin Zwirn and Arthur Diamond. Diamond is a former prosecutor who ran Dillon's campaign in 1977 and was recently appointed by Suffolk County Executive Patrick Halpin to a five-member commission charged with selecting a new police commissioner. Zwirn, also a former prosecutor, unsuccessfully opposed North Hempstead Superviser John Kiernan last November. Martin Bracken, 41, who has headed the Special Investigations Bureau since March, 1981, will take over as head of the Rackets Bureau. Frank Quigley, 40, who moved to Special Investigations with Bracken as his deputy, will take over that bureau. Burton Ryan, 38, now deputy chief of the Commercial Frauds Bureau will move over to become Quigley's deputy, and Robert Emmons, 32, in the frauds bureau since October, 1982, will take Ryan's place.