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It would not be much of a stretch to compare the investigative cases that pepper Kevin Morgan’s detective career with the Greenburgh Police Department to those on the famed CBS crime-drama shows of CSI.
For example, he was part of the squad that finally caught Larry Stevens, the Staten Island man who famously murdered and robbed several elderly people around the New York City area, including one in Greenburgh.
“We first went to one address we had of him in Staten Island and found out he moved but the mailman gave us his forwarded address,” Morgan said of the 1996 crime. “Then we saw him and called for backup.”
Before that, he was one of the first policemen to arrive on the brutal murder scene of Betty Jeanne Solomon, a Greenburgh resident who was killed by her husband Paul’s lover, Carolyn Warmus in 1989. The investigative case was nationally recognized and later drew comparison to the movie, “Fatal Attraction.”
“I’ve been on some pretty incredible cases,” said Morgan as he turned the pages in his scrapbook of news clippings.
Although he is now retired, Morgan has not closed the case on his service to the community. He is now part of the Legal Aid Society of Westchester, an organization providing legal services to residents who could not otherwise afford them.
Last year, he utilized the resources of his local community by helping donate $105,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For his efforts, he earned its Man of the Year Award for Westchester.
“It was for a good reason and a good cause, and you get to see where the money is going," he said. "95 percent of what we earned goes to research and helping families."
Morgan also serves as Town Councilman for the town of Greenburgh.
Comments (3)
The only thing Morgan did to raise money was to reach out to others to do the work. I know because I sat in traffic while the Elmsford Fire Department, not Morgan, held up traffic and drivers for cash, doing a boot drive. They p-o'd a lot of people. Many were angrily shouting at the firefighters, not Morgan, and they got absolutely no credit for their effort. He's double-dipping and open lies to the constituency. Morgan is Feiner's butt-boy and needs to leave the Town.
It is obvious you have no clue as to what you are saying. Morgan raised the money in 2011 and was there every minute the firefighter were there. If there are lies look in the mirror. This year there was another candidate who the member of the Elmsford FD supported and gladly supported. Hope you never need support from LLS.
I confess, from the onset, that I do not like Kevin Morgan but then again I don't like any of the members of the Greenburgh Town Board. "It would not be much of a stretch" to compare the Town Board's collective efforts to "the famed NBC crime drama" Law & Order if the show runner's production budget were cut by half and the show's second half were dropped as the result.
Law & Order and Mr. Morgan's Police employment have both completed 20 year runs. Law & Order has ripped over 450 crime stories from the headlines. Compare that with Mr. Morgan's publicized feat of claiming bragging rights to two "pretty incredible cases".
Another thing I don't like is substandard journalism, even when it appears in an obvious puff piece.
Consider:
"Last year, he utilized the resources of his local community by helping donate $105,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society." A good effort, a good cause but misleading when written "helping donate $105,000" yet more accurately stated were it written as "helping raise $105,000". This too a group effort.
"He is now part of the Legal Aid Society of Westchester, an organization providing Legal services to residents..." Is Kevin a lawyer? What does he do there? Does he volunteer or receive payment for his participation?
As for his "being part of the squad" or being "one of the first to arrive", what about this generates such a loving article? I believe Mr. Morgan was employed at the time by the Greenburgh Police Department and arriving by car hardly qualifies as CSI reminiscent: there, the detectives have speaking roles.
So for those of you would-be crimestoppers out there who enjoy Police procedurals, perhaps you could put your investigative skills to work and find out how this article came to be.
Myself, I would be more likely to report on whether Mr. Morgan is one of those Town Board members who have pocketed an annual insurance buyout (a lump sum yearly payment which the Town Board allows itself, as part-time salaried Town Council members, to collect in lieu taking the health insurance coverage provided to these select PART-TIME employees). Since Mr. Morgan, a retired Greenburgh Police Officer, already has lifetime health insurance coverage as part of Polce retirement perks, it might be called double-dipping were he to accept the optional annual buyout. Does he? "It would not be much of a stretch" to ask him yourself and thereby become "part of the squad" of unhappy taxpayers who already know.
Hal Samis