Commission of New York Harbor. In 1980, Scoppetta and Eric A. Seiff, a long-time friend from his days at the Manhattan D.A.'s Office, founded the law firm of Scoppetta & Seiff (now known as Seiff Kretz & Abercrombie), where he engaged in the private practice of law until his full-time return to public service in 1996 as the first Commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. From February 1995 to January 1996, he was Chairman of the five-member Commission to Combat Police Corruption, which was created by Mayor Rudy Giuliani to monitor the New York City Police Department’s anti-corruption efforts. Return to city government On January 11, 1996, Giuliani announced the creation of the Administration for Children’s Services and appointed Scoppetta the agency’s first commissioner. ACS was the city’s first independent agency devoted entirely to services for children, with a commissioner reporting directly to the mayor. Not-for-profit/non-profit advisory work Scoppetta was a President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Aid Society, a not-for-profit social service agency which annually serves nearly 50,000 needy children and their families in New York City. He was a member of that Board for sixteen years. He served on numerous boards of other not-for-profit institutions and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Among the nonprofits he worked closely with was the New York Blood Center, where he served as a board member from 2006 to 2015. He was also president of New Yorkers For Children, and organization which he founded in 1996 as the non-profit partner to the Administration for Children's Services. Awards and professional recognition On January 14, 1997, Scoppetta was awarded the Hogan-Morgenthau Award of the Hogan-Morgenthau Associates, an organization of past and present assistant district attorneys on the staffs of the Manhattan District Attorneys Frank Hogan and Robert M. Morgenthau. Family life Scoppetta lived his entire life in Manhattan with his wife Susan, a psychotherapist; they had two children. References U.S. Investigator Will Replace Ruskin, Who Is Quitting December 1; A U.S. Investigator Is Selected to Take Ruskin's Place, The New York Times, November 9, 1972 Goldin Says Aide Altered Books on Scoppetta Order; Angry City Investigator Denounces the Charge as 'Outrageous', The New York Times, August 2, 1974 Goldin Stands By Charge on Scoppetta; 'Reappearing' Securities 'Curious Coincidence', The New York Times,