Even so, the study did blame Sheriff Bigger, the county's top elected law enforcement official, for most of the intractable problems in the sheriff's office.
The sheriff says the indictments are the culmination of a long-running feud between him and Mr. Catterson, Suffolk County's two most powerful elected law enforcement officials.
The lawsuit -- which seeks fines as well as the recouping of about $117,000 in missing money -- also alleged that Sheriff H. Frank Bigger, the county's top elected law enforcement official, either knew or should have known about the abuses.
Roman Polanski should be deported from Poland to the US to face sentence over a conviction for having sex with a minor in 1977, according to the leader of Poland's newly elected Law and Justice party.
In a saner country, it would be a crime for a businessman to make a large contribution to an elected law-enforcement officer whose office was looking into his dealings.
Nor would it be possible, in any American context, to argue for the superiority of sharia Islamic law over laws passed by elected law-makers.But the right to say almost anything on most other subjects is deeply entrenched in America.
The gender system leads to women's being underrepresented in influential forums of public deliberation, including in elected law-making bodies.
"It's the oldest, only elected law enforcement official in the country, and it does date back to Anglo-Saxon times," he said.
It has long been part of the president's plan to woo those elected law enforcement officials who back his immigration policy.
People who work in the Southern District went to the best law schools, were elected to law reviews, and clerked for federal judges.
