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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Story
12/13/02
The competition was heavy
again this week, with runners-up including a drug court urine tester who
provided negative test results in return for cash or sexual favors and
positive test results for people he didn't like (Lafourche Parish, LA)
and the San Francisco office of the FBI, which allowed a confidential informant
to rise through the ranks of the Nuestra Familia gang, committing drug
crimes and murders for some seven months while the FBI sat back and watched.
But this week's winners are
Charleston, WV, police officers William Hart and George Henderson, whose
misdeeds may well lead to the removal of federal prosecutors in a pending
drug case. Defense attorneys for accused drug criminals Calvin Dyess
and Eric Dewayne Spencer are asking a federal judge to remove prosecutors
in their case because the prosecutors had worked closely with Hart and
Henderson, who are currently suspended and under federal investigation
for irregularities in the handling of drug cash and for threatening witnesses.
Hart was the lead investigator
in a late 1990s drug case involving Dyess and his then-wife, Rachel Ursala
Rader. Rader divorced Dyess shortly after the first arrests were
made in the case, then turned in cash she said was drug money belonging
to her ex-husband. In violation of police rules, Hart and Henderson
let Rader keep $27,000, although they initially denied doing so.
But it gets better.
In February 1999, at the same time Rader was delivering cash and getting
kickbacks, she began a romantic relationship with Hart. They married
in the summer of 2001 and divorced later that same year. Now Rader
is alleging that Hart "threatened, intimidated, or assaulted" her and urged
her to lie in court about the drug money. Hart and Henderson remain
on suspension, a federal investigation continues, and a federal judge is
considering the defense motion for a new prosecutorial team because the
US Attorney's office worked so closely with Hart and Henderson.
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Issue #267, 12/13/02
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