Caught In Insurance Bind, Chief Struggles To Survive

GoFundMe Raises $14,720 After He’s Cut From County Plan

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal - **Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert hold the medications and devices he uses daily to stay alive.**

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN - When Mike Covert was in Bassett Hospital recovering from a heart attack in January, he had an unexpected visitor. A young woman from the “Angel” program, which Covert started in 2015 as the Cooperstown police chief to help heroin addicts seek recovery, came to his bedside. “She didn’t have a car and she still came to see me,” he said. “She thanked me for saving her.” Now Covert, a 25-year veteran of Otsego County law enforcement departments, is the recipient of a GoFundMe campaign, started by his former partner Mike Ten Eyck.

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