Bail Denied For Police Hit Men on Drug Charge
by TChris
The former police officers who avoided racketeering convictions for the assistance they provided to the Mafia (including eight murders) are still behind bars. The judge who threw out their convictions on the ground that the statute of limitations expired denied them bail on a surviving charge that the men conspired to deliver methamphetamine.
Today, after he denied the two men bail, Judge Weinstein took them to task, calling them "dangerous criminals with no degree of credibility" and saying they had been "publicly shamed" at the very trial he had upended with his order of acquittal. He said the drug count -- an alleged deal hatched over dinner in a Las Vegas restaurant -- was a "serious" charge and sternly ordered federal marshals to haul the men to jail.
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