* Hands on leadership in Computer Vision and Robotics, and partnership development. A rapper with a smooth flow on the East Coast rose to prominence and built a brand for the New York label Bad Boy Records. That's how a good investigation is done.". While many deny the statements disclosed by Sullivan and Poole in the book, director Brad Furman found a story in Pooles controversial plight. Other LAPD sources concurred. "Losing their jobs is punishment enough," a commander told him. Good reason to deny your claim because no police report, more reason to sue. One squad leader concluded: "You can only hope that everyone assigned to your squad will be of the caliber and character of Officer Poole. On Feb. 6, 1998, an additional 2 pounds of cocaine evidence, submitted by narcotics detective Lyga, had been stolen from the downtown Evidence Control Unit. Wallace family lawyer Perry Sanders Jr. is arguing that LAPD officers moonlighting for Death Row Records lawyer were involved in the killing of the 24-year-old Brooklyn rap superstar. The D.A. At the Parker Center meeting, Poole explained the details of the beating case to the chief and other assembled brass. Greater Nashville Area, TN. Lyga urgently wanted to fight the suit, but city attorney James Hahn structured a deal so that the three plaintiffs -- Gaines' wife and two daughters -- each received compensation below the $100,000 monetary threshold that required City Council approval. ", Because he immediately realized the Jimenez beating was a criminal case -- "assault under the color of authority" -- Poole says, "I didn't use compelled statements. Poole asserts his investigation into Wallaces death was cut short because then-police Chief Bernard C. Parks feared it would lead to unwanted revelations about the Rampart police corruption scandal. Theories of the case have fueled a cottage industry of books, documentaries and magazine articles exploring the slayings of Wallace and Tupac Shakur, a Death Row artist and the other leading rap musician of his generation. Poole then decided to go over his lieutenant's head, complaining to higher-ups, who heard his tale but did nothing. Throughout his tour with the Rampart task force, he charges, his superiors refused to investigate dirty cops, even when obvious clues pointed to them. "He's lying," says Lyga, who worked with both Perez and Mack a few years before the Rampart scandal broke. Mack is currently serving a 14-year sentence for bank robbery. A special task force, including Poole, had been formed to investigate Perez because IAD suspected him of stealing 6 pounds of cocaine evidence that disappeared in March 1998 from a police storage room. Investigators from a joint FBI/LAPD corruption task force told the Times "there is some corroboration."
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