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Former
Orleans Parish Deputy Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bribery
U.S. Attorney’s Office March 21, 2013 • Eastern
District of Louisiana (504) 680-3000
NEW ORLEANS—Gerard J. Hoffman, Jr., 59, a resident of
Mandeville, Louisiana, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jane Triche
Milazzo to conspiracy to commit bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J.
Boente.
According to the factual basis, Hoffman, the former head of
the maintenance department at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (OPSO), began
receiving things of value from a contractor, identified as Businessman B, in
exchange for a rigged bidding system employed to steer OPSO work to Businessman
B. In particular, from 2007 through 2011, Businessman B would submit bids for
OPSO work in the name of his respective company but, with the knowledge and
participation of, among others, Hoffman, would also submit phony or fake bids
for these same projects in the names of other local companies, in an effort to
give the appearance of a competitive bidding process. In many cases, the phony
bids would intentionally be higher than the bids from Businessman B and,
consequently, the OPSO work would be awarded, with Hoffman’s participation and
knowledge, to Businessman B.
In exchange for this rigged bidding process, according to
court documents, Hoffman received several things of value from Businessman B.
For example, from 2007 through 2011, Hoffman received a trailer, a storage
container, and free maintenance and construction work at a house owned by
Hoffman, all at no cost to him. In total, Hoffman received at least $5,000, but
less than $10,000, in things of value from Businessman B in exchange for
Hoffman’s official acts at the OPSO.
Hoffman faces a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment,
three years’ supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 special
assessment. Sentencing has been scheduled for June 20, 2013.
U.S. Attorney Boente, as well as the investigative and
prosecution team, offers their thanks to the Metropolitan Crime Commission for
providing valuable assistance in this case.
The case was investigated by special agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S.
Attorneys Matt Chester and Jon Maestri.
Detroit, Michigan: A cop and a civilian were arrested in
connection with an armed robbery investigation. The men are accused of a series
of robberies of several businesses. ow.ly/jyhu3
Former
"Dirty 30" Cop Arrested in Chinatown
Former cop Russell Litwenak is accused of robbery and
criminal impersonation of a cop
A former NYPD cop, disgraced during the notorious “Dirty 30”
scandal in the '90s, was arrested on Monday and accused of stealing $3,000 from
a woman in Chinatown, according to court papers.
Russell Litwenak, who was fired from the NYPD in 1994
following his conviction on burglary charges, was taken into custody around 3
p.m. near Forsyth and Chrystie streets, after a woman called police claiming he
took the cash when it fell out of her purse, according to a criminal complaint
filed in Manhattan Criminal Court.
The woman told police she dropped the money while walking to
pay her rent. An unknown man, believed to be working with Litwenak, came up to
her and grabbed the money as she was putting it back into her purse and took
off with it, according to court papers.
She followed that man when she says the 68-year-old ex-cop
came out of nowhere and grabbed her by the collar. She says he held her against
the wall, and told her that he was a cop. Investigators believe that Litwenak
and the man, who was able to get away, were working together.
The victim was able to alert people on the street to what
was happening and they held Litwenak for police.
According to the criminal complaint, Litwenak was charged
with robbery and criminal impersonation of a cop. He is being held on $15,000
bond.
The “Dirty 30” scandal rocked the NYPD in the '90s after
more than 30 cops were arrested for illegally raiding drug dealers' apartments,
stealing cash and drugs.
Detroit
cop charged with 10 felonies related to armed robberies
DETROIT — Two badged men entrusted with public faith to
uphold and enforce the law have instead violated it, the Wayne County
Prosecutor's Office claims.
Cop Clifton Whatley, 34, and longtime friend Jeffrey
Armstrong are charged with multiple felonies related to a string of armed
robberies in Detroit and surrounding communities.
"It is alleged that Clifton Whatley has robbed victims
in five of our Wayne County communities," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym
Worthy said. "We will vigorously present our case in court."
Has been suspended from the force and police officials say
they are not releasing any further details.
Whatley, a Detroit cop since 2000 who most recently working
a day-shift at the Central District Headquarters in New Center, was arraigned
in Taylor's 23rd District Court this morning.
"Whatley organized and orchestrated a series of
robberies throughout Wayne County, including Taylor, Westland, Canton, Harper
Woods and Melvindale," Kym Worthy's office says.
He's charged with three counts of armed robbery, two counts
of bank robbery, conducting a criminal enterprise, three counts of unlawful
imprisonment and felony firearm.
"In May 2012, Armstrong, a longtime friend of Whatley
is alleged to have robbed a Check and Go located in the 9100 block of Telegraph
in Taylor," prosecutor's say.
Armstrong is charged with armed robbery, bank robbery and
felonious firearm possession.
Armstrong is scheduled to be arraigned April 8 followed by a
preliminary examination.
Whatley, whose bond was set at $1 million, has a preliminary
examination the same day as Armstrong.
"We are committed to ensuring that the members of the
Detroit Police Department conduct themselves in a manner that is worthy of the
public’s trust," Interim Police Chief Cheater Logan said in a statement.
"To that end all allegations of police misconduct that occurs within our
jurisdiction will be thoroughly and impartially investigated and my department
will assist and cooperate with all outside jurisdictions."
The crimes were committed between May of 2012 and March of
2013 and state police investigated, according to a clerk in the Taylor Police
Department administrative offices.
NYPD
cop charged with stealing food from Carmel supermarket
CARMEL — A New York City cop is charged with stealing food
from the Hannaford Supermarket, Putnam County sheriff’s spokesman Capt. William
McNamara said.
Vanessa Bobe, 35, of Kent was charged Saturday with petty
larceny, a misdemeanor, and released. She has been suspended without pay for at
least 30 days, New York City police told The Journal News.
Deputies responded at 2 p.m. Saturday to the store in Putnam
Plaza along Route 6 on a complaint by a security staffer, the sheriff’s office
said. Bobe was allegedly seen on closed-circuit television hiding food items on
her.
According to the sheriff’s office, the staffer confronted
Bobe when she left without paying and detained her until deputies arrived.
Deputy Robert Hudson gave her an appearance ticket and released her.
Bobe is scheduled to appear in Carmel Justice Court April 9.
If convicted, she could face up to a year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
Bobe could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
The NYPD could not immediately provide her salary.
Detroit
cop charged with committing robberies throughout Wayne County
A Detroit cop has been charged with committing robberies in
Wayne County.
It is alleged that from May 2012 through March 2013, Clifton
Whatley organized and orchestrated a series of robberies throughout the County,
including in Taylor, Westland, Canton, Harper Woods and Melvindale.
Whatley is accused of using his background as an cop and his
family members to pull off the crimes.
In May 2012, Layman Armstrong, A Detroit resident and
longtime friend of Whatley, is alleged to have robbed a Check and Go located in
the 9100 block of Telegraph in Taylor.
Sources said investigators found a gun, cash and bank bags
in Whatley's home and that photos of the targeted businesses were on his phone.
Whatley is charged with three counts of armed robbery, two
counts of bank robbery, one count of conducting a criminal enterprise, three
counts of unlawful imprisonment and felony firearm.
He's been a cop since 2000 and was most recently assigned to
the Detroit Police Department's Central District office.
He was given a $1 million cash bail. He pleaded with the
judge that he needed to be at home with his kids.
"I've never been arrested. I just came home from work
yesterday and was arrested on this," he said.
Two members of his own alleged robbery crew were caught in
Westland and named Whatley as the getaway driver. They also said Whatley
provided the gun used in the armed robbery.
Whatley's niece claims he told her to let him rob her at a check
cashing business, but she refused. The business was eventually robbed anyways,
and Whatley's niece recognized Whatley's best friend as one of the robbers.
"He recruited, trained, and provided direct
instructions to his nephew in connection to planning and carrying out a
multitude of armed robberies," said Robert Miller, assistant Wayne County
prosecutor.
Whatley also moonlights out of town as a bodyguard for
rapper Rick Ross. He denies his roll in any of the crimes.
"All of this is allegation. I have never committed a
crime in my life," said Whatley.
Whatley has been suspended from the Detroit Police
Department and now faces life in prison if convicted.
Armstrong is charged with armed robbery, bank robbery and
felony firearm. His arraignment is scheduled for April 8.
Statement from Detroit Police Chief Chester Logan:
"We are committed to ensuring that the members of the
Detroit Police Department conduct themselves in a manner that is worthy of the
public’s trust. To that end all allegations of police misconduct that occurs
within our jurisdiction will be thoroughly and impartially investigated and my
department will assist and cooperate with all outside jurisdictions."
Stuck in traffic because we don’t have enough roads? No, you’re stuck in traffic because the cops got your road improvement money.
“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.” Cyrano De Bergerac
Stuck in traffic because we don’t have enough roads? No, you’re stuck in traffic because the cops got your road improvement money.
The cops in McLean spent $20,000,000 of your money...…money that won’t go to schools or road improvements or a library……because they wanted to make a few improvements to their office space. Twenty million dollars’ worth of improvement. Constructing a new building would have cost less.
“The roof has been leaking for years and we don’t have anywhere to park our cruisers,” said Supreme Allied Commander Janickey.
Leaky roofs? Oh come on. The red necks you hire never knew a roof didn’t leak until they came way north to Fairfax County. How do you think they got water into the house?
When we in the non-millionaire class have a leaky roof we don’t build a new $20,000,000 home. We repair the roof. You call a roof guy, he shows up with a hammer or something and closes the leaks and you pay him.
So are we clear, Mister Howl? You repair the roof you don’t build a new building. I don’t care what “That’s Gerry with G Dearie” Hyland told you.
The second “good” reason Commander Spendthrift has to build a $20, 000, 000 addition to the existing police station (while salivating at the possibility of building a second station a few blocks away) is parking.
That’s right. There is a parking shortage at red neck central so the morons are spending $20, 000,000 of your money on their home improvements.
“We don’t have anywhere to park our cruisers” Super Commandant Janickey whined.
Well, just park like you do at home back in Prince William County where almost 90% of you live….park on the front lawn next to the ole truck up on cinder blocks that don’t still work no how.
Star Fleet Commander Janickey apparently thinks we are all blind and can’t see through the open chain link fence around the McLean police station with its half empty parking lot and two dozen unused police cars sitting idly within.
Want more room in your half empty lot? Get rid of the two dozen cop cars you don’t use, that’ll give you room in your parking lot. Here’s another idea to make more room. Get rid of some of the 180 people you have on staff. You could get by with half that number of people on staff and you know it.
Since this is obviously a case of the police out of control we went straight to the bastion of control in Fairfax County, the board of supervisors.
“If I had a backbone, I’d stand up to these cops” said McLean area Supervisor John W. Foust “instead I’m going to pretend this isn’t an outrage and pray it goes away. If it doesn’t we’ll just toss more money at it until it does go away.”
“And I’ll be there to catch it,” said Sharon “show me the money” Bulova, although no one asked her.
“Of course they can have two new police stations and twenty four new cops for a crime problem that doesn’t exist!” said Supervisor “Gerry with G” Hyland. “Money is not an issue. I have spent my entire life in government and in those many years of avoiding real work I have learned that when you need more money you simply send someone out to the magic money tree to get it. And that’s exactly what we’ll do here. The people should kneel before the police to show how grateful they are. I’m always on my knees when it comes to the cops.”
In other words, the board of supervisors, the people you elected to protect your interests, have nothing to say on the issue.
So as you sit in traffic, late for everything and burning gas remember the words of Commander and Spend Janickey who said, “It’s a good time to be at the McLean station.” And he’s right. Life for your local police is very, very good.
new police station in Tysons?
It’s now reached the point where the Fairfax County Police in McLean are holding their own press conferences to declare news on crime waves that haven’t happened and probably won’t happen either.
The motivation behind this grab for even more power in our government is the possibility of a new police station and other additions to our already bloated and grossly over funded police.
There are several points to be taken from the cop's demands on our pockets. One is that the police in the McLean area are “overwhelmed”. Not true. On any night of the week, several cop cars can be watched, and can be watched for an extended spell, stopped in Lewinsville Park, motors running on the gasoline we pay for. But you have to watch from a distance. The cops make goddamn sure no one enters the park after dark besides them. And now you know why.
The other point is the pending mass of criminally prone hordes that the cops say will sweep into Tyson’s with the arrival of the Metro. Yes, as remarkable as it is, we employ cops too dumb to go find a better job yet smart enough to foresee the future. Ironic, ain’t it?
“More crime is on the way so give us a raise.” What else would you expect a cop to say? “Don’t worry, everything will fine?” Of course a cop won’t say that. Cops live off the public till and in Fairfax County the cops live very, very well off the public teat and the best way for them to keep citizens from asking why the cops in Fairfax County operate on an open-checkbook basis, is to scare the taxpayer into thinking that without massive law enforcement spending, chaos and crime will rule our streets.
For the cops it’s easier to scare than to explain why they weren’t prepared for the Metro opening years ago, or why they haven’t figured out ways to deal with a possible increase in crime within their $300,000,000 budget.
That would be the concerned, forward thinking way to handle this. But thinking, concerned cops who plan out the community good won’t happen in Fairfax County, however playing the race card to pimp more money out of the taxpayer will happen. In fact it’s happening right now because that’s what “crime will increase when the metro opens” appears to be. It seems like “white speak” for “the black people are coming to rob us and the bastards are taking the metro to get here”.
We can’t blame the cops for demanding more of everything. After all, when has the board of supervisors ever denied them anything?
Never.
In Fairfax County the cops massive budget finances an underused and barely useful Police Navy, a Police Air Force that’s proven time and again to be redundant and a SWAT team large enough and bored enough to fall out for the execution of an unarmed gambler they set up for arrest. The cops literally get away with murder. So why not demand a new police station and a new hire of a hundred cops?
The policeman in McLean says that getting more cops to work for him is “critical”…yeah for him, not for us, but then again, your money means nothing to the Fairfax County Police because barely one of them lives in this county.
The proposed multi-million dollar Tysons police station would sit on acres and acres of commercially valuable land and would require that the taxpayer pick up the tab to hire an additional 132 new cops and 30 generically named “staff”. To the cops it makes sense. Few, if any of them have ever held a job outside government. To them, your money grows on magic trees.
There are other alternatives:
Name the station “The Bernard Goetz Welcome Center”: In 1984, Goetz gunned down four black men on a subway because one of them asked him for money. Bernie is now the New York City police chief but I’m sure we can lure him down here with the right dose of medication. The Fairfax cops could get him to shoot black people as they arrive at the station, saving them the time of shooting blacks randomly over a longer period of time. This solution also saves the cops the effort of thinking up another scary excuse for murdering people (“evil spirits opened the car door on my elbow, pulled the gun from my holster and shot the dangerous eye doctor directly through the heart”). With Goetz, they could just say “Well, Bernie's fuck’n nuts”.
Bernie
Sharon Bulova: The cops could force all newly arriving blacks to listen to Sharon Bulova explain why law enforcement’s political contributions to her campaign wasn’t a political payoff to avoid police oversight in the county. After a few minutes of listening to this old white lady, black people will shoot themselves. Problem solved.
Sharon Bulova
Where the hell is the chief of police and the seemingly endless, endless line of overpaid deputy-assistant-to-the- assistant-deputy-of- the- deputy- police-chief? Don’t we pay someone in an executive level to make this sort of call? Where’s Rhorer when you actually need him?
Rhorer
But don’t worry all is not lost. Poster child for the perpetually confused, Supervisor John Foust, who kept his office in the McLean Police station for years, took his usual marshmallow stand and effectively said nothing. Well almost nothing.
“Why do you feel the need for such a significant investment?” he asked the inquiring reporter as if the reporter was planning to build the additional police station out of her spare pocket change.
Supervisor John Foust
On the other side of the mentally challenged spectrum we find…and not surprisingly … big time spender, lifelong government worker and cop suck-up, Supervisor Gerry Hyland (Mount Vernon) who said, “We’re going to need another station. The question isn’t whether, it’s when.” …and so much for democracy.
Hyland, a bachelor who has spent most of his life around men….we’re just say’n that’s all….not there is ANYTHING wrong with that…. may be little more than a waterboy for the cops, but at least we know where he stands, or in his case, which rock he’s curled up under.
Supervisor Gerry Hyland
And in the end, he’s right. When those pillars of mush on the Board of Supervisors assume no one is watching, they’ll stop their puffery about standing up to the police. Then the cops, with their one third of a billion dollar budget, will get their new station in Tysons. That’s the way it goes here in Fairfax County where our elected officials are convenient liberals with bendable principles and the cops run the show.
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