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BOOT. GIL'S GOT A FIRST LOOK
HE RETIRED... áBEFOREá HE
COULD GET FIRED. WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT AN DISGRACED
EAST HAVEN COP -- WHO AS IT
STANDS -- WILL GET TO KEEP HIS
PENSION AND BE PAID FOR UNUSED
SICK AND VACATION TIME.
UNLESS THE TOWN CAN CLOSE A
LEGAL LOOPHOLE. NEWS 8'S KENT
PIERCE IS LIVE IN EAST
HAVEN... WITH THE LAW THAT
COULD BE THE ANSWER TO PART OF
THE PROBLEM.
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IN ADDITION TO THE BLACK
EYE TO EAST HAVEN'S
REPUTATION, NOW THE TOWN MAY
HAVE TO PAY A LOT OF MONEY TO
A POLICE SERGEANT WHO PLED
GUILTY IN COURT. IT'S A LITTLE
CONFUSING...THERE ARE TWO
DIFFERENT QUESTIONS - CAN JOHN
MILLER BE DENIED HIS PENSION,
AND CAN HE BE DENIED A PAYOUT
OF UNSUED SICK AND VACATION
TIME?
IT STARTED WITH THIS VIDEO
OF EAST HAVEN POLICE ALLEGEDLY
HARASSING AN HISPANIC SHOP
OWNER. IT CONTINUED WITH FOUR
OFFICERS ARRESTED FOR CIVIL
RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. ONE OF
THEM, SGT. JOHN MILLER, MADE A
DEAL WITH THE FEDS AND PLED
GUILTY TO PUNCHING A SUSPECT.
BUT JUST BEFORE HIS PLEA, HE
RESIGNED, ALL SET TO COLLECT
HIS PENSION AND UNUSED
VACATION AND SICK TIME.[MIKE
GOODWINéEAST HAVEN]
((TC:8:29:27-:33)) "THE GUY
WORKED ALL HIS LIFE. I WOULD
EXPECT HE'D GET HIS PENSION. I
DON'T KNOW ABOUT SICK TIME
ANEVERYTHING, BUT HE SHOULD
GET HIS PENSION."[