Big Fire Department Scandal

This one is bubbling to the surface:

• A very loud rumor has it that the First Deputy Fire Commissioner Lester Noy was removed from office today (Monday March 10,2009) by the US Dept. of Justice. On ongoing investigation into copies of Fire dept. promotional exams being given out to members of the black church and shared with the City's chosen folks for the last couple of years. How do you think these honor student's landed high on the list, surely not for their brains.
  This will only get better once the media catches on.

Not only does this call into question CFD promotional practices over the past few years, it raises the specter of scandal on all city promotional exams. We've commented here many times, along with other people, how certain exempts that are "subject matter experts" developing the testing criteria seem to have rather large statistical anomalies where members of their staff score in the very top percentiles. It's uncanny.