New York Daily News

Busted L.I. DA quits Fri.

- Andrew Keshner

THE SUFFOLK County district attorney, accused by the feds of obstructin­g a probe into a beating by a police chief, is resigning at the end of the week.

When DA Thomas Spota was indicted last month for trying to cover up the pummeling, he said he’d be leaving office “at the earliest opportunit­y.”

Spota’s office announced Wednesday that he is stepping down Friday after more than 15 years in the position.

Emily Constant, Spota’s top deputy, will become the acting district attorney, according to an office spokesman.

Brooklyn federal prosecutor­s say Spota, 76, tried to scuttle a federal grand jury looking into county police Chief James Burke’s 2012 beating of a burglar who stole a bag full of the top cop’s sex toys.

Spota’s lawyers say he didn’t break any laws.

Christophe­r McPartland, the DA’s lead corruption prosecutor, was also charged in the case. McPartland, 51, “was reassigned to administra­tive duties unrelated to his former supervisor­y role,” a spokesman said.

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