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Article snippet: New York City’s Department of Investigation has picked apart practically every facet of the troubled misuse of official cars by the commissioner and his staff. Now it is taking aim at the very person who is supposed to prevent wrongdoing at the jail from within — the head of the Correction Department’s Investigation Division. The Department of Investigation believes the jail official, Gregory Kuczinski, has orchestrated a spying campaign against it and has called for his removal. On Monday morning, Mr. Kuczinsky was removed from his position and placed on modified duty. In a long letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Department of Investigation said Mr. Kuczinski and his subordinates violated city rules and regulations by repeatedly listening in on telephone calls between an investigator with the agency and inmates who were serving as informants, several people with knowledge of the letter said. In an interview late on Sunday, the Correction Department commissioner, Joseph Ponte, insisted that “there was no improper eavesdropping.” As soon as Correction Department investigators determined that they had been listening in on a conversation involving a Department of Investigation staff member, he said, they stopped the surveillance. “Clearly there was no intent to interfere with D.O.I. and anything they were doing,” he said. Mr. Kuczinski, in a separate phone interview on Sunday, denied wrongdoing and called the reaction of officials at the investigation agency “ridic... Link to the full article to read more