Former EOPD chief honored by many at wake

Photo by Chris Sykes Current East Orange Police Department Officers Sgt. Larry Flanagan, second from left, and Sgt. S. Greenwood, center, joined retired EOPD cops, including Sgt. Robert Congleton, second from right, and Detective Joseph Juliano, right, in paying their respects to former police Chief Michael Cleary at his wake on Thursday, July 19, the same day Mayor Ted Green introduced former police Director Jose Cordero as the city’s new public safety consultant, marking the start of a new chapter in the department’s history, at the same time that Cleary’s death ended his part of that ongoing story