Panel Delays Moose's Pay

Washington Post ^ | */7/03 | By Matthew Mosk and Dana Hedgpeth

[OldEagle]

Montgomery County is withholding former police chief Charles A. Moose's final paycheck while the county Ethics Commission seeks more details about a legal settlement he listed as income on his 2003 financial disclosure form, county officials said.

Moose is asking to keep confidential the source and amount of the money he and his wife received before his resignation June 28. The payment was mentioned on forms made public by the commission last week. The forms do not disclose who made the payment. But Moose sought a financial settlement this year from Marriott International Inc., according to sources familiar with that request. The Bethesda-based hotel chain is one of the largest corporations doing business in Montgomery County.

Chief Moose sought the settlement after alleging that he was a victim of racial discrimination in December while staying at a Hawaiian resort managed by the chain, according to one of the sources, who was briefed on the incident at the heart of the allegations. The source did not know how much Marriott ultimately paid but said the Mooses requested the company give them $200,000 to avoid a lawsuit.

[OldEagle]

This is not the first time that the Mooses have profited from discrimination. It might have been nesessary because they were underpaid in their professions.

[Dante3]

Chief Moose is lacking in ethics as his "book deal" already proved.