Posted on 05/25/2005 1:16:29 PM PDT by Puppage
MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- A retired Chatham police chief admitted trying to enlist a prostitute's help in opening a brothel, but was spared jail time under a plea deal with prosecutors.
Thomas Ramsey, 55, of Mansfield, admitted Tuesday in state Superior Court that he proposed running a brothel and using a massage parlor as a front while speaking to a prostitute in a Mount Olive motel last year.
During the conversation, Ramsey acknowledged, he encouraged the woman to continue working as a prostitute. The plan would have included a third person, and Ramsey would have used his law enforcement knowledge and connections to protect the brothel, he said.
Ramsey was a police chief for seven years, retiring in 1998.
He had faced up to five years in prison and more than $15,000 in fines for promoting prostitution. Under the plea deal, he faces up to five years on probation when he is sentenced July 1.
His attorney, Peter Gilbreth, said Ramsey is currently unemployed "and he wants to get this chapter of his life over with."
Morris County Prosecutor Michael M. Rubbinaccio said he was satisfied with the plea.
"It is a shame he tarnished his long law enforcement career," Rubbinaccio said.
Ramsey, who is married and has three children, most recently ran Morris County's youth detention center in 2003. He stepped down from that post during an investigation of payroll issues at the facility.
Having lived in NJ for 35 years this does not surprice me.
One day the FBI raided my hometowns police dept.
He just got disoriented-he thought he was in Chicago and it was 1935.
Thats like saying you only do lube jobs but your really a full service filling station
Wonder how much those 'issues' cost the county? He definitely has a need for extra income.
Cops were covering for brothels (and skimming off the top) when my grandfather was a kid in the Garden State. Yet another reason to call it Sopranostan.
This demonstrates why it's so lucrative to be completely corrupt if you're in law enforcement. You can succeed at it and pad your salary, and even if your plans get thwarted by a blabbermouth, you can cop a plea and walk away with a slap on the wrist.
Sopranostan--funny.
This is really pretty good. Prosecutors are buying into a probation plea deal for this guy, while other prosecutors are getting ready to send that pathetic Wilbanks girl up the river for running away without keeping the 24/7 news whores informed on her whereabouts and her intentions.
That is Southern Justice and Jersey Justice
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