As recently as last year, he gave talks locally about what he called the case’s “culture of corruption” involving
Burke was recently released after going to prison in 2016 for a cover-up involving his beating of a petty criminal who stole a bag of sex toys and pornography from his car. Banfelder also blamed current County Executive of Suffolk County Steve Bellone for bungling the Gilgo case,“He dropped the ball,” Banfelder said. “He hired Burke. But that was part of the problem. He hired a bad cop.”
“Burke never wanted us involved in this [serial killer] case because he knew we were investigating him,” said a federal source.