The de Blasio administration’s bungling—and that’s the word if you take the Mayor’s explanation of how it was handled at face value—of the forced exit of the city’s Commissioner of Emergency Management, Joseph Esposito, is not the first time the career cop has found himself mired in controversy.
A day before his retirement from the NYPD in March 2013, the then-Chief of Department said that he had been blessed to have held “a job that I love to do. I haven’t worked a day in 44 ½ years. Every day has been a pleasure coming to work.”
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