[MetroFocus] A white New York City police officer who prosecutors said implicated himself in a slur-laden cellphone call was charged with a civil rights violation of having falsified charges against a black man on Staten Island.
Mr Shaw said in a statement on Tuesday that his office "never instructed the police department to target African Americans, nor falsify charges to administer fines, nor heap abuses on the backs of the poor".
Shaw's parting words were that he had cooperated with the feds to help improve city police but that he "never instructed the police department to target African Americans, nor falsify charges to administer fines, nor heap abuses on the backs of the poor".
He was exonerated only on the falsifying documents charge.
She even went to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, to draw attention to the case of Oyub Tetiev, a human-rights activist who was arrested on what appear to be falsified drug charges.
The accuser later admitted that she had falsified the charges.
(After then Greek finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou got hold of the list, the names of members of his family disappeared from it; he was charged with falsifying documents, but the charges were dropped).
As a result, Abdiaziz and the alleged victim, along with her husband, have been charged with falsifying the rape accusation and "insulting and lowering the dignity of the state" and have been sentenced to a year in prison.
Mr. Nestor, the former Shenandoah police chief, was found guilty of falsifying records, a charge that could bring up to 20 years in prison, but he was acquitted of conspiracy.
It was accused of secretly changing the loan terms of mortgage borrowers in bankruptcy and falsifying records to charge mortgage applicants for its own delays in application processing.
