by Carl Campanile

Nicholas Scoppetta, who served in top city government posts spanning six decades and four mayors, has died. Scoppetta, 83, served as the city's fire commissioner just months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks under then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He had the formidable task of rebuilding an agency that lost 343 firefighters.

Scoppetta previously was commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services under Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Earlier, he headed the Department of Investigation under both Mayors John Lindsay and Abe Beame. A talented prosecutor and lawyer, Scoppetta also served as counsel to the Commission to Investigate Police Corruption, also known as the Knapp Commission, in 1971.

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