Bad Cops & Prosecutors

Judge breached restraining order against ex-wife and her boyfriend
Judge breached restraining order against ex-wife and her boyfriendA judge has been sentenced to 50 hours community service after he admitted breaching a restraining order imposed following a campaign of harassment against his ex-wife and her boyfriend...

Senior Divorce Turns Near-Fatal Times Three
Elderly couple married twenty years. Wife files for divorce. Wife obtains restraining order against 75 year old Husband. Case drags on. Husband unhappy. Husband sets Wife’s house on fire, starting it in the attached garage...

SEC Settles Fraud Charges Against Former OCA CFO
The SEC settled charges against Bartholomew F. Palmisano, Jr., the former Chief Financial Officer of OCA, Inc. ("OCA"). The SEC alleged that during twelve different quarters during 1998 through 2001, Palmisano recorded eighteen fraudulent journal entries on OCA's general ledger...

LEXINGTON:"Whistleblower seeks restraining order against state"
Herald Leader story on whistleblower lawsuit out of Lexington: Whistleblower seeks restraining order against state A lawyer for a Lexington-area social worker who has accused supervisors of misconduct is seeking a restraining order against the state, alleging a top social services official came to the worker's home with a police officer, demanding to search it for "missing files...

Tell Me Again Who the Victim of this Particular Crime Is
Beaumont, Texas police officer fired after an assistant chief finds out that, in the course of investigating of prostitution ring, the officer received oral sex a half-dozen or so times (and maybe “one ‘active coitus’”, according to his lawyer) with the approval of his supervisor and his wife...

Another Police Officer Shoots Wife Accidentally
Riley Taylor, 54, accidentally shot and killed his wife at a family function in Georgia. This follows another recent case of an accidental spousal shooting by an officer. Taylor shoot his wife, Denise, while cleaning his gun...

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Law & Order Depicts Police Procedures and Criminal Justice
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Police Officer Slander
City of Detroit agrees to $25,000 settlement.

Police Whistleblower
Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation.

Police Officer
City of Tonawanda awards former employee $47,000 wrongful termination settlement.

Boat Crash
Police officer awarded $100,000 settlement after crashing into bridge piling while on duty.

New York City
$1.5 million settlement after a family of four was killed by an off duty drunken police officer.

Motorcycle Cop Accident
Erie police officer awarded $150,000 workers compensation settlement after sustaining serious injuries while on duty.