This is just the latest for ex Police Chief Greg Kaczmarek, who was turned down once before, in 1993, for the Chief of Police position with the S.P.D.
because of all the rumors of his drug use.
Then his luck seemed to change back in 1996, when he was again put up for confirmation as Chief of Police.
He became a lightning rod for criticism again, not only for the rumors about his own drug use, but also because of the conroversy that arose with 12
officers resigning and going to jail at different times because of crimes committed while part of the force. Some of the crimes came out after the
Albany FBI Field Office investigated some of the allegations against the police force.
Then earlier this year, it came out in transcripts of a wiretap that his wife Lisa was heard to say that Greg could act as a mule and pick up drugs
from the person she was talking to. Greg Kaczmarek is heard in the background saying that if he got stopped after he picked up the drugs by police, he
would get by by flashing his badge and saying he had bought the drugs as part of a sting operation.
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