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Vulcan Leader Skewers Cassano Reinstatement As Undeserved Break

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 8/20/18

The head of the Vulcan Society of African-American Firefighters Aug. 16  blasted the Fire Department's decision to return Firefighter Joseph Cassano to duty after his 30-day suspension for being arrested for criminal trespass in a Jersey Shore community.

Mr. Cassano, the son of former Commissioner Sal Cassano, has been a lightning rod for controversy since his 2013 resignation as a member of the  Emergency Medical Service after anti-Semitic and racist tweets of his surfaced.

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