Top New Jersey State Cop Faces New Criticism Over Report on Diner Meeting

Top New Jersey State Cop Faces New Criticism Over Report on Diner Meeting

Concerns about the leadership of the New Jersey State Police are being raised after a report has confirmed that the force's acting head discussed an open corruption probe of a county prosecutor's office with the prosecutor in question in a meeting deemed questionable by experts and officials.The sit-down, first reported in June of last year by Newsweek, involved Acting State Police Superintendent Patrick J. Callahan and Sussex County Prosecutor Francis A. Koch meeting with two other officials in March 2017 at the Golden Corner Diner in Bound Brook, New Jersey.Callahan later testified in a deposition that during the course of conversation the four discussed the fact that one of his troopers had filed corruption charges against Koch's office over a quashed sexual assault case involving a New Jersey woman and the son of a former Morris County official.The corruption case was later referred to the New Jersey Attorney General's office, and no further action has been taken on it. The trooper who filed the charges was disciplined along with others supporting him, though they later won a labor grievance case against the force, with the exception of one trooper whose charges are still pending.But concerns surrounding the internal handling of