Within days of a USA Today Network New York series that revealed a blistering State Police report taking Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler to task for his alleged actions in the Megan McDonald murder investigation, the NYPD’s Detectives’ Endowment Association called for the FBI and New York’s Attorney General to investigate Hoovler.
Paul DiGiacomo, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, was flanked by members of his group and by Karen and James Whalen, the sister and brother-in-law of Megan McDonald, at the hastily called news conference.
“I’ve been a detective for over 40 years, and there’s something that we go by, and that’s gut instinct a lot,” DiGiacomo said. “And this case smells. There were things done that were unethical, things done that were wrong, things done that should be investigated by the FBI and the attorney general to bring to light the corruption in that office in regards to this homicide case.”
Megan McDonald’s father, Dennis, was an NYPD detective who served 20 years before retiring in 2000. He died of a heart attack in 2002, a year before his daughter’s murder. His fellow detectives have stood by the family, offering a reward for information leading to a conviction.