Gau, 54, was remembered as a family man, leaving behind a wife, three children and six grandchildren, and for his community service as a 23-year veteran volunteer firefighter at Belle Plaine Fire Department.
The prisons investigation involved allegations that Ronald Brereton ran a Central Park North lockup as his personal fiefdom, according to a dossier compiled by staffers that reached then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.