Three New York City Police Officers are charged with varying counts of Fraud, Bribery, and Conspiracy. During an investigation it was uncovered that these men received bribes and other lavish gifts including a trip on a private jet to Law Vegas for Super Bowl weekend in 2013, accompanied by a prostitute.
The praise that US Attorney Preet Bharara lavished on the NYPD for having “the courage to police itself” can’t mask the fact that Monday was one of the department’s darkest days since the 1970s.
The wide-ranging bribery and corruption indictments Bharara unveiled involve “some of the highest and most sensitive levels” of the NYPD, he said.
And the charges “tear at the very fabric of society” by making people “wonder whether those entrusted to protect and serve them are actually doing that.”
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Cite: William K. Rashbaum and Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times, 6/20/2016
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/nyregion/nypd-arrests.html