Posted on 07/08/2003 12:59:57 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
ROCKVILE, Md. (AP) - Former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose reached a deal with the county ethics commission Tuesday that clears the way for him to write a book and pursue a movie project about the sniper investigation, his attorney said.
Moose resigned last month, but his departure did not resolve the legal dispute over his book about the three-week manhunt following the sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington area last fall.
The county ethics commission had argued Moose could not write his book - even if he had resigned - saying he would be unfairly profiting from his office.
But Moose reached an agreement Tuesday that ends the county's opposition to the book and movie deals, said his lawyer, Ronald Karp. Moose agreed to drop a federal lawsuit against the county and his appeal of the ethics commission ruling, and also promised to give the county $4,250 he has been paid for the movie rights, Karp said.
"He is free to write the book, he is free to pursue the movie," Karp said.
Ethics Commission Chairwoman Elizabeth Kellar was not immediately available for comment, nor was county attorney Judd Garrett.
Moose remains on active duty with the Air National Guard and was not available for comment.
Moose signed a book deal in January with publisher E.P. Dutton for a reported $170,000 advance for "Three Weeks in October: The Manhunt for the Serial Sniper."
Sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo have been linked to 20 shootings, including 13 deaths, in Virginia, Maryland, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Washington D.C. Both face the death penalty.
I hope you are not implying he was keeping the identities secret so HE could nail the snipers himself ....
Celebrated author and lawman par excellence, PC Moose Ph.D. will become Public Safety Commissioner(NB, I did not say Police Chief) of some addled metro area which has a large African-American population. Or even some left-wing burg that doesn't.
PC Moose, Ph.D.is among the chosen now, i.e., AAA's who rise through sheer incompetence and who ruin one town after another. His book will also be on the "must buy" list for every schoolboard in the country headed by an equally incompetent AAA. And that my friend, is probably most of'em!
PC Moose, Ph.D., will be on Okra. He is now immortal. That is the cause the people who died through his incompetence served.
Actually, he and his lawyer wife have a crisis consulting business that they started up in the aftermath of the killings and they expect to make money from that. After the truth comes out, I'm not sure who will pay to hear them blame whitey for every problem their clients have.
Four times as a Portland, Ore., cop, Moose had to be disciplined for losing his temper in dust-ups with average citizens, most of them triggered by what he perceived to be racial slights by whites.
He was ordered to take an anger-management course (ironically, Moose's wife, Sandy, has taught an anger-management course at Montgomery College in Maryland). But he got into more racial confrontations.
Still, he was promoted to chief of the Portland Police Bureau.
Even at that level, he couldn't shake the chip from his shoulder. In another controversy, he had to apologize for making racial slurs against whites. Even the liberal Portland Oregonian lamented his "explosive temper."
Some white Portland cops complain that Moose discriminated against them.
"I tried to be very open-minded and extend myself to him on many occasions while working with him, but he made it very apparent he has some very strong bias against white males, especially ones with blond hair and blue eyes," said a former Portland officer who served under Moose in the 1990s.
Moose has what some say is an annoying habit, as a public official, of putting his race in your face.
His corner office at police headquarters is a shrine to the black movement. Figurines of wild African elephants line a credenza. There's a plaque about black "pride." Pictures of black leaders line the walls. A poster reads: "Hatred thrives when bigotry is tolerated."
Moose came to Maryland vowing to end black criminal profiling as he had in Portland. Before taking the job in 1999, he met with the local NAACP.
When he arrived, he said he had reservations about moving to the area because he claimed the Ku Klux Klan was active there, and that it might be a "difficult" place for an interracial couple to live.
Huh? Montgomery County is one of the most liberal enclaves in the Beltway.
He quickly ended black profiling there – apparently only to replace it with white profiling.
A big fan of race-sensitive "community policing," Moose made Portland cops working the gang beat – during the crack wars, no less – carry blue pocketbooks filled with information about the city's social-service agencies.
Attorney General Janet Reno liked what she saw, and flew out to recognize him.
As her husband started his new job as Portland police chief in 1993, Sandra Herman Moose began law school in Tacoma, Wash., commuting home on weekends.
She and Moose found time a couple of years later to teach a course on "multicultural communications" at Portland Community College.
His nutty second wife, Sandy, has ideas on race issues that are downright scary.
She told CNN's Connie Chung the other night that she hit the roof when she heard a female newsie call her husband "hostile" after one of his hostile press conferences.
Sandy explained that whole discrimination law is built around that word, which she claims is racially charged and should never be used to describe a black man.
So, apparently we can't say Muhammad and Malvo are "hostile," either. Will she defend them if they sue?
If Moose's blond wife considers "hostile" to be a racial epithet, imagine what Moose considers discriminatory.
Nope. "Son of Sam Law" prohibts criminals from profiting from prison on their crimes.
Maybe two white guys in a white van implanted a "chip" in the two sniper's and were giving them instructions. I can see CIA or Jedi connections here.
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