Explosive issue - Corrections Officers in the USA beyond redemption?
Gregory
How come when details of outrageous sexual outrages were posted to
alt.prisons no corrections officers were really prepared to condemn them
with the exception of one instant? I mean how would they like their wives
and daughters sexually outraged and deprived of water for three days and in
effect tortured to death? Where is the morality or christianity?
How would they like their wives and daughters stripped (opposite gender)
and have a vaginal and oral cavity search with ONE GLOVE on one woman after
another after another with no hygiene provision whatsover?
Corrections Officers rather than condemning the outrage immediately started
to tell patent and deliberate lies and were firmly and robustly supported
by their colleagues in very *obvious* lies. How could any sexually abused
inmate have confidence in such officers? If they will lie and organise to
lie with determination on usenet, what might be espected of them in their
prisons?
Why when the females were described as "filth" were there no corrections
officers prepared to say, that was not a nice way to describe their
customers? Why do corrections officers time after time use rapist and sex
offender stereotypes as rationalisations to describe themselves? Why
describe the women as too ugly or diseased to be sexually abused or say
that it was the poor innocent all powerful corrections officer lead astray
by these powerless female inmates?
We went from a position wherein corrections officer stated there was no
sexual abuse whatsoever and the rumors of "rape camps" were commie lies to
a state of affairs when one person after another painted a picture of
"consensuality" that reduced the entire rebuttal strategy to one arguing
Brothels instead of Rape Camps. The corrections officers were very angry
when one of their number broke ranks and admitted that sex between male
corrections officers and female inmates was prolific. Therefore how honest
might they be in real life?
Corrections officers told one deliberate lie after another and set one
false path after another as did other prison employees. How honest would
they be if a 17 year old hispanic girl said she was being sexually molested
day in and day out by a white 49 year old fat perverted corrections
officer? How many COs on these newsgroups have *ever* turned in a fellow
officer for sex abuse? From where I am standing they are more likely to get
*very* upset at *any* corrections officer breaking ranks.
When I point out that catholic and christian corrections officers disgusted
at the notion of female inmates being used as sex toys from one end of the
USA to the other were offering information to HROs. I was never tackled on
this statement.
I of course have specific references to hand, of corrections officers
confirming very endemic sexual abuse in Both Michigan and California and
elswhere. The reason they steered away from challenging me in my opinion
was it rather upset the notion of the "diseased filth" telling lies about
poor exploited and innocent male corrections officers.
The "diseased filth" who were the female inmates were said to be lying
about Georgia and the District of Columbia, and Georgia was a fully fledged
long running rape camp with utterly horrific abuses and they both still
have endemic problems.
Experts (USA) stated that the District of Columbia attracted men to the
corrections profession who singularly wanted to use women sexually. That
was true as *somebody* had to be sexually abusing the women and was *local*
gossip in anycase and accepted for years. If you wanted to sexually molest
women you became a corrections officer and got paid for it.
When precisely will the corrections unions try and reform this can of
worms?
- OFR -
>
> How come when details of outrageous sexual outrages were posted to
> alt.prisons no corrections officers were really prepared to condemn them
> with the exception of one instant? I mean how would they like their wives
> and daughters sexually outraged and deprived of water for three days and in
> effect tortured to death? Where is the morality or christianity?
>
> How would they like their wives and daughters stripped (opposite gender)
> and have a vaginal and oral cavity search with ONE GLOVE on one woman after
> another after another with no hygiene provision whatsover?
>
> Corrections Officers rather than condemning the outrage immediately started
> to tell patent and deliberate lies and were firmly and robustly supported
> by their colleagues in very *obvious* lies. How could any sexually abused
> inmate have confidence in such officers? If they will lie and organise to
> lie with determination on usenet, what might be espected of them in their
> prisons?
Two nights ago they had a show on tv where hundreds of COs were
caught working for the mob. It was really the FBI and the COs were
caught by the truckload.
> Why when the females were described as "filth" were there no corrections
> officers prepared to say, that was not a nice way to describe their
> customers?
In the US, we are taught that people who commit crimes are not
deserving of rights. Criminals are sub-human scum with restricted
rights.
Even after release.
> Why do corrections officers time after time use rapist and sex
> offender stereotypes as rationalisations to describe themselves? Why
> describe the women as too ugly or diseased to be sexually abused or say
> that it was the poor innocent all powerful corrections officer lead astray
> by these powerless female inmates?
The women always lie. All guards know that.
> We went from a position wherein corrections officer stated there was no
> sexual abuse whatsoever and the rumors of "rape camps" were commie lies to
> a state of affairs when one person after another painted a picture of
> "consensuality" that reduced the entire rebuttal strategy to one arguing
> Brothels instead of Rape Camps. The corrections officers were very angry
> when one of their number broke ranks and admitted that sex between male
> corrections officers and female inmates was prolific. Therefore how honest
> might they be in real life?
Honesty is not a job requirement.
> Corrections officers told one deliberate lie after another and set one
> false path after another as did other prison employees. How honest would
> they be if a 17 year old hispanic girl said she was being sexually molested
> day in and day out by a white 49 year old fat perverted corrections
> officer? How many COs on these newsgroups have *ever* turned in a fellow
> officer for sex abuse? From where I am standing they are more likely to get
> *very* upset at *any* corrections officer breaking ranks.
US law enforcement has mutated to a group of lawbreaking thugs that
get away with murder. The public is taught to allow the slaughter
and sexual abuse in prison, because these criminals shouldn't have
committed the crime. It's their fault for getting abused in prison.
> When I point out that catholic and christian corrections officers disgusted
> at the notion of female inmates being used as sex toys from one end of the
> USA to the other were offering information to HROs. I was never tackled on
> this statement.
>
> I of course have specific references to hand, of corrections officers
> confirming very endemic sexual abuse in Both Michigan and California and
> elswhere. The reason they steered away from challenging me in my opinion
> was it rather upset the notion of the "diseased filth" telling lies about
> poor exploited and innocent male corrections officers.
This sounds like fallout from the drug war against the evil sub-humans.
> The "diseased filth" who were the female inmates were said to be lying
> about Georgia and the District of Columbia, and Georgia was a fully fledged
> long running rape camp with utterly horrific abuses and they both still
> have endemic problems.
Law enforcement stops at the prison gate. A prisoner can't call a cop.
> Experts (USA) stated that the District of Columbia attracted men to the
> corrections profession who singularly wanted to use women sexually. That
> was true as *somebody* had to be sexually abusing the women and was *local*
> gossip in anycase and accepted for years. If you wanted to sexually molest
> women you became a corrections officer and got paid for it.
>
> When precisely will the corrections unions try and reform this can of
> worms?
The Unions are duty bound to protect and fight for the pigs.
Over 300,000 men are raped in prison each year. When will a cop
investigate these crimes?
I guess they are to busy getting blowjobs from the women.
ds...@webtv.net
defending anyone,however, I do believe there is ALWAYS two sides to the
story and these "poor women" are not that innocent, are they? I mean
they are in prison, correct? Why do you tend to believe the criminal's
before you believe the Officer's? Could it be that maybe you were an
inmate at one time?
ds...@webtv.net
ever read! Yes, there are people in the Law Enforcement field who are
"bad guys" but there is "bad guys" in every field including the Catholic
Church! Give me a break...this is NOT the NORM and if you were so
knowledgable you would know this. I am amazed at the people in this
society who would believe a convicted felon over someone trying to make
an honest living. That in it self should show what kind of crazies we
are living with nowadays! WAKE UP...THEY ARE CRIMINALS!...how would you
like about 200 of them as your neighbors? If you would just go sell
some drugs to children, beat your wife/husband/or child to death, steal
from your city, state or government, rob a bank or shoot up your
neigborhood...I'm sure someone will accomadate you with a cell right
next to your FRIENDS! I for one am grateful someone is keeping these
people (for lack of a better word) away from my friends and family! You
stupid ingrate!
Gregory
<373F58...@dejanews.com>:
>Gregory wrote:
>>
>> How come when details of outrageous sexual outrages were posted to
>> alt.prisons no corrections officers were really prepared to condemn
>> them with the exception of one instant? I mean how would they like
>> their wives and daughters sexually outraged and deprived of water for
>> three days and in effect tortured to death? Where is the morality or
>> christianity?
>>
>> How would they like their wives and daughters stripped (opposite
>> gender) and have a vaginal and oral cavity search with ONE GLOVE on
>> one woman after another after another with no hygiene provision
>> whatsover?
>>
>> Corrections Officers rather than condemning the outrage immediately
>> started to tell patent and deliberate lies and were firmly and
>> robustly supported by their colleagues in very *obvious* lies. How
>> could any sexually abused inmate have confidence in such officers? If
>> they will lie and organise to lie with determination on usenet, what
>> might be espected of them in their prisons? >
>Two nights ago they had a show on tv where hundreds of COs were
>caught working for the mob. It was really the FBI and the COs were
>caught by the truckload.
This is a joke?
>
>> Why when the females were described as "filth" were there no corrections
>> officers prepared to say, that was not a nice way to describe their
>> customers?
>
>In the US, we are taught that people who commit crimes are not deserving
>of rights. Criminals are sub-human scum with restricted rights. Even
>after release.
Yes I think that they are treated worse than animals COs clearly feel it is
part of their salary to sexually outrage female inmates, they go crazy at
any device that might bring it to an end.
>
>> Why do corrections officers time after time use rapist and sex
>> offender stereotypes as rationalisations to describe themselves? Why
>> describe the women as too ugly or diseased to be sexually abused or
>> say that it was the poor innocent all powerful corrections officer
>> lead astray by these powerless female inmates? >
>
>The women always lie. All guards know that.
Indeed and even a slight knowledge of sex abusers shows COs on THESE
newsgroups adopting offender strategies in their arguments we were
discussing it with some RCC people. They really use rapist
rationalizations without realizing it.
We expected it to a degree but it was textbook stuff. We archive
everything and run tests. Surprisingly (or not) females working in
corrections score piss bloody poor RET results based on their attitudinal
remarks made here.
It happens outside as well. However very few of the COs on these
newsgroups would destabilise an abusive institution in my opinion.
Theywould not snitch or rock the boat. That is my opinion.
>
>> We went from a position wherein corrections officer stated there was
>> no sexual abuse whatsoever and the rumors of "rape camps" were commie
>> lies to a state of affairs when one person after another painted a
>> picture of "consensuality" that reduced the entire rebuttal strategy
>> to one arguing Brothels instead of Rape Camps. The corrections
>> officers were very angry when one of their number broke ranks and
>> admitted that sex between male corrections officers and female inmates
>> was prolific. Therefore how honest might they be in real life?>
>Honesty is not a job requirement.
>
>>
Corrections Officers lie as a first resort on these newsgroups and with
poorquality lies they *know* their colleagues will support the lie so it
does not need to be that well thought out. I am sure you can see how we
might apply this to our research.
real...@webtv.net
are not the problem here it is the sick twisted fucks who hire the
pieces of shit to work in here just like any job including the
military,presidancy,doctors etc use their power to get pussy no matter
if they take it , buy it, or it is given to them.
2nd of all what makes you so GOD DAMN holy anyway what do you really
know about being Joe Catholic?? If i heard you talk that shit in person
in a church someone would probably drown you in holy water. You see: you
holy frootloop this world is sick and twisted just like many CLERGYMAN
who are locked up behind bars for taking advantage of young innocent
children but yet you see this as a personal challange they received from
God right?? Let me guess them twisted fucks failed the test right???
Well HOLY SHIT let's hope you don't get appointed pope!!!
Bottom line our government and all you liberal jerk offs are to blame
because no one; and i mean NO ONE!!!!! Has the balls to handle these sex
crimes and assaults, you jackasses should be cutting balls off of anyone
including "TREE JUMPING" priests , doctors, and cops etc ..... who break
the LAW!!
Stop sending this country to a usless prison and start taking an EYE for
an EYE!!
Now that my holy boy is the gospel!!!
P.S. "Use these real nails and nail your self to a cross you definately
sound like the messiah""!!!
P.S.S You probably are one of those sex freaks incognito and i hope im
the co taking you to the infirmary when your fellow man (CONVICT) shoves
a broom stick in your ass !! I'll ask you then if you want a priest!!
P.S.S.S Pray for yourself that you become God overnite and just appoint
me as St, Michael cause i'll kick all these scumbag tree jumping sex
deviants straight to hell where they belong!!!
SUPPORT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT CAUSE PRETTY SOON THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR IS
GONNA BE CELL BLOCK 6!!!!!!!!!!
This has been the gospel according to me!!
- OFR -
> >>
> >> How come when details of outrageous sexual outrages were posted to
> >> alt.prisons no corrections officers were really prepared to condemn
> >> them with the exception of one instant? I mean how would they like
> >> their wives and daughters sexually outraged and deprived of water for
> >> three days and in effect tortured to death? Where is the morality or
> >> christianity?
> >>
> >> How would they like their wives and daughters stripped (opposite
> >> gender) and have a vaginal and oral cavity search with ONE GLOVE on
> >> one woman after another after another with no hygiene provision
> >> whatsover?
> >>
> >> Corrections Officers rather than condemning the outrage immediately
> >> started to tell patent and deliberate lies and were firmly and
> >> robustly supported by their colleagues in very *obvious* lies. How
> >> could any sexually abused inmate have confidence in such officers? If
> >> they will lie and organise to lie with determination on usenet, what
> >> might be espected of them in their prisons? >
>
> >Two nights ago they had a show on tv where hundreds of COs were
> >caught working for the mob. It was really the FBI and the COs were
> >caught by the truckload.
>
Dateline, I think. The Cos took an oath to defend the mob with their
lives and they were told once you jopin it is for life.
The pigs took the oath to protect the mob on tape.
> >> Why when the females were described as "filth" were there no corrections
> >> officers prepared to say, that was not a nice way to describe their
> >> customers?
> >
>
> >In the US, we are taught that people who commit crimes are not deserving
> >of rights. Criminals are sub-human scum with restricted rights. Even
> >after release.
>
> Yes I think that they are treated worse than animals COs clearly feel it is
> part of their salary to sexually outrage female inmates, they go crazy at
> any device that might bring it to an end.
When an animal is incarcerated we take care not to injure it.
With humans injury or death for resisting is acceptable.
> >> Why do corrections officers time after time use rapist and sex
> >> offender stereotypes as rationalisations to describe themselves? Why
> >> describe the women as too ugly or diseased to be sexually abused or
> >> say that it was the poor innocent all powerful corrections officer
> >> lead astray by these powerless female inmates? >
> >
>
> >The women always lie. All guards know that.
>
> Indeed and even a slight knowledge of sex abusers shows COs on THESE
> newsgroups adopting offender strategies in their arguments we were
> discussing it with some RCC people. They really use rapist
> rationalizations without realizing it.
>
> We expected it to a degree but it was textbook stuff. We archive
> everything and run tests. Surprisingly (or not) females working in
> corrections score piss bloody poor RET results based on their attitudinal
> remarks made here.
>
> It happens outside as well. However very few of the COs on these
> newsgroups would destabilise an abusive institution in my opinion.
> Theywould not snitch or rock the boat. That is my opinion.
>
> >
> >> We went from a position wherein corrections officer stated there was
> >> no sexual abuse whatsoever and the rumors of "rape camps" were commie
> >> lies to a state of affairs when one person after another painted a
> >> picture of "consensuality" that reduced the entire rebuttal strategy
> >> to one arguing Brothels instead of Rape Camps. The corrections
> >> officers were very angry when one of their number broke ranks and
> >> admitted that sex between male corrections officers and female inmates
> >> was prolific. Therefore how honest might they be in real life?>
>
> >Honesty is not a job requirement.
> >
> >>
>
> Corrections Officers lie as a first resort on these newsgroups and with
> poorquality lies they *know* their colleagues will support the lie so it
> does not need to be that well thought out. I am sure you can see how we
> might apply this to our research.
The entire criminal injustice system is a farce.
Bastille Day!
> cath...@justinian.idps.co.uk
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Gregory
>>
>> This is a joke?
>
>Dateline, I think. The Cos took an oath to defend the mob with their
>lives and they were told once you jopin it is for life.
>
>The pigs took the oath to protect the mob on tape.
>
Is there an archive where e can contact for that? It might help us.
Hartz
- OFR - <outlaw_f...@dejanews.com> wrote:
> Gregory wrote:
>
>
> Two nights ago they had a show on tv where hundreds of COs were
> caught working for the mob. It was really the FBI and the COs were
> caught by the truckload.
>
I lost the url for this is there anychance you could hunt it down? I thought
it would be on this thread.
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>
> In article <373F58...@dejanews.com>,
> - OFR - <outlaw_f...@dejanews.com> wrote:
> > Gregory wrote:
> I lost the url for this is there anychance you could hunt it down? I > thought it would be on this thread.
Subject:
- 20/20 - FBI Sting Transcripts -
Date:
Tue, 18 May 1999 12:21:24 -0500
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/transcripts/2020_990512_mob_trans.html
Moonlighting for the Mob
20/20
Wednesday May 12, 1999
(This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript.)
SAM DONALDSON, ABCNEWS Good evening,
and welcome to 20/20 Wednesday. Diane Sawyer is on
the road with Good Morning America, and Barbara
Walters is with us tonight. Barbara, it’s great to see
you.
BARBARA WALTERS, ABCNEWS Together at last.
SAM DONALDSON Oh, it has to be this way. It’s
always a pleasure. Tonight, we’re going to show you an
undercover sting you’ve got to see to believe. The FBI
catching crooks in the act, but get this—the crooks
turn
out to be local cops and jail guards.
BARBARA WALTERS The numbers are astonishing.
More than 500 police officers around the country
convicted on corruption charges during the past five
years. And authorities say that they’re active
participants in crime. Chief correspondent Chris
Wallace has an inside look at one of the biggest cases.
It’s amazing, Chris.
CHRIS WALLACE, ABCNEWS Barbara, it
happened in Cleveland. FBI agents posed as mobsters
with fancy cars and private planes and big drug deals.
And more than 40 local cops and corrections officers
agreed to help what they thought was the mob in return
for more than $110,000 in payoffs. (VO) It looks like
scenes from the underworld, through the eyes of a
hidden camera. Hundreds of pounds of drugs being
loaded on a private plane.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN Be advised, the money man’s
there.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Big payoffs in envelopes
filled with cash. Even an induction into a mob crime
family.
“JOHNNY AMICO,” FBI AGENT POSING AS
MOBSTER Repeat after me. This family comes before
everything.
MICHAEL JOYE (PH), FORMER
CORRECTIONS OFFICER This family comes
before everything.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I will accept death for the family.
MICHAEL JOYE I will accept death for the family.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) But the men running this
operation aren’t the Mafia, they’re FBI agents. And the
people they’re investigating are Cleveland area law
enforcement officers on the take.
“JOHNNY AMICO” It’ll be $100 to start, so I owe
you $1,400.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Over 15 months, some 44
cops and corrections officers were caught in the FBI
sting. Some even showed up in uniform riding in their
police cruisers. The FBI says it’s the biggest roundup
of
dirty police and jail guards anyone there can remember.
THOMAS PICKARD, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,
CRIMINAL DIVISION, FBI What’s happened now
is the problem of drugs. The money involved in drugs
has started to corrupt law enforcement.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Tom Pickard is in charge of
FBI criminal investigations. He says an undercover
agent was originally trying to penetrate the mob in
Cleveland but then found a new target. (on camera)
Cops and corrections officers offering protection for a
few hundred dollars?
THOMAS PICKARD Exactly. Selling their badge for
a couple of hundred dollars.
CHRIS WALLACE It all started here at Tiffany’s—a
topless dance club here in Cleveland. An FBI agent
posing as a mobster named Johnny Amico was
working here as a manager. And one day, he met a
corrections officer moonlighting as a bouncer—a man
named Michael Joye.
MICHAEL JOYE The way he spoke to me, he had me
running scared. I would have done anything for this
man.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The FBI says that jail guard
Joye offered to help the undercover agent he thought
was mobster Johnny Amico to provide law enforcement
officers as security for the mob.
MICHAEL JOYE I just recruited one or two guys.
And then, everybody else was domino effect. They
brought—this guy brought this guy, and this guy
brought this guy.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The FBI went to great
lengths to set up Amico as a Mafia wiseguy. He rented
an apartment in this luxury high rise, drove around
town in a red Mercedes convertible and always had
plenty of cash.
“JOHNNY AMICO” A hundred bucks now. For the
rest, come to me, and then—you get it there.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Amico started small, asking
Joye and his buddies to move two dozen illegal slot
machines. The government caught it all on hidden
camera. There’s Joye, the prison guard. The men with
him seven other corrections officers. Each accepted a
payoff of at least $500. Three months later, Amico
upped the ante. This time, asking the officers to help
move marijuana and cocaine. (on camera) This isn’t
slot machines anymore. We are talking about drugs.
JOHN EVANISH, FORMER CORRECTIONS
OFFICER Yeah. But you can’t back out. He made it
very clear.
CHRIS WALLACE And you thought if you crossed
this guy ...
JOHN EVANISH If I thought I crossed him, I would
die.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Like many of the men now
in prison, former jail guard John Evanish says he
thought he was going to do legal security work. But
after meeting Johnny Amico, he says he was trapped.
Whether it was out of fear or greed, Evanish went to a
local airport to rendezvous with this FBI agent, who he
thought was another mobster. Moments later, Evanish
was helping his fellow jail guards load 600 pounds of
real marijuana onto the man’s private plane. (on
camera) So you are there in uniform?
JOHN EVANISH Mm—hmm. In uniform, providing
security for this guy like he instructed us to.
CHRIS WALLACE But you’re a corrections officer.
JOHN EVANISH I am a human being first. Any time
you threaten to kill me, I am going to do what you say.
CHRIS WALLACE So you just went along?
JOHN EVANISH Just went along.
CHRIS WALLACE And you got paid?
JOHN EVANISH Got paid.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Evanish got $750 for his
services that day, which he admits he spent.
JOHN EVANISH What else am I going to do with the
money?
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) Well, if this is so
outrageous, if you are so unhappy, I don’t know, give
it
to charity? Do something.
JOHN EVANISH I went to church and made
donations. But I mean, I am not going to sit there and
say, “Well, the money’s no good. I am going to
through it away.” I paid bills like anybody else.
CHRIS WALLACE You worked for the money?
JOHN EVANISH Exactly.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Michael Joye also worked
that job, and he was armed. (on camera) You were there
to protect the drug deal?
MICHAEL JOYE Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
CHRIS WALLACE What if the cops had shown up?
MICHAEL JOYE I don’t know what I would have
done.
CHRIS WALLACE You as a corrections officer there
to protect the drug deal and drug dealers from the
police?
MICHAEL JOYE I don’t know what to tell you.
TED HART (PH), CHANNEL 5 REPORTER These
guys were drawn into this thing and went willingly and
over and over again.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Reporter Ted Hart from
ABC affiliate Channel 5 in Cleveland was the first news
man to get his hands on the FBI tapes. He says the
officers weren’t shaking with fear, but laughing and
joking. (Laughter)
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) He says the videos shocked
the community.
TED HART, CHANNEL 5 REPORTER We’ve had
cases where cops have looked the other way, and
that—and it’s been gambling or prostitution. This was
drugs, and they didn’t just look the other way. They
were part of it. They were hands on.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) So far, Amico had 10
corrections officers working for him. But now, he heard
some police officers might also want in on the deal.
Cops like Freddie Cody, Jr. from east Cleveland. (on
camera) Why’d you become a policeman?
FREDDIE CODY, JR., CONVICTED POLICE
OFFICER I had always wanted to help fight crime and
stop all the violence that was happening in that city.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) But when Amico asked him
to provide security for a cocaine deal, Cody and his
partner did it, coming to this restaurant to make sure
it
went off without a hitch. (on camera) You showed up in
uniform?
FREDDIE CODY, JR. Yes. We were on duty at the
time. We had took our lunch break and went over there.
CHRIS WALLACE You were providing security for a
drug deal on your lunch break?
FREDDIE CODY, JR. That’s what we were doing.
That’s what I was told to do.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) And he didn’t leave without
his money. That’s Johnny Amico standing next to
Cody’s police cruiser with a payoff in his back pocket.
(on camera) And he’s handing you $2,000 each.
FREDDIE CODY, JR. Yeah.
CHRIS WALLACE In your marked police cruiser.
FREDDIE CODY, JR. Right. It’s not a pretty sight.
But that was part—that was part of what he told us we
had to do.
CHRIS WALLACE Could there be a more complete
violation of your badge than what you did there?
FREDDIE CODY, JR. I think that’s as bad as it can
get.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) But Cody didn’t stop there.
Three weeks later, he was back in uniform providing
security for an even bigger job. The FBI’s hidden
camera caught him and another cop protecting a man
they think is carrying 20 kilos of cocaine. It’s really
just
white powder. FBI administrator Tom Pickard reviewed
the tape with us. (on camera) And then, here they are
back in their marked police cruiser. And your agent is
going to come and give them their payoff, in uniform,
in
their marked car. I see you, as you watch the tape,
shaking your head. What are your thoughts?
THOMAS PICKARD How they violated their trust,
their oath to office. It upsets me to see that.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Over the next eight months,
Amico carried out nearly a dozen more transactions,
drawing in 30 more officers. The setup was always the
same. Here, he met with policeman Michael Radike
(ph), sitting on the left, the night before a job to
make
sure he knew exactly what he was getting into.
MICHAEL RADIKE, FORMER POLICE
OFFICER Twenty—five, you said, 25 kilos?
“JOHNNY AMICO” Of what? Flour?
MICHAEL RADIKE Twenty—five kilos of coke and
diamonds.
“JOHNNY AMICO” Right.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Then Amico always handed
out a down payment.
“JOHNNY AMICO” They just printed them.
MICHAEL RADIKE Oh, they smell nice! Thanks.
THOMAS PICKARD They had the perfect
opportunity to walk out. They had the perfect
opportunity that night to go see their chief.
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) And they didn’t?
THOMAS PICKARD None of them did.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The day after his payoff,
Radike showed how far these officers would go for their
money. An honest cop sitting in a barber shop saw
what he thought was a drug deal going down in a
parking lot. He asked Radike to detain Johnny Amico,
who was in his red Mercedes. But watch as Radike tries
to help Amico escape, motioning for him to drive away.
Amico was finally stopped, and nothing was found in
his car. But afterward, Amico’s men say he was furious.
JOHN EVANISH He was mad about it. Said, “Don’t
let it happen again, if you know what is good for you.”
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The cops and jail guards we
spoke with say this was just one of many threats from
Johnny Amico, which raises a question about this sting.
Did the FBI go too far to get these guys?
MICHAEL JOYE They orchestrated their whole entire
thing by keeping me scared, by threats on my life.
That’s why I did what I had to do for them.
SAM DONALDSON We want to make it clear that
Tiffany’s, the club where it all began, was never the
target of the FBI investigation. When we come back, an
officer of the law takes an astonishing oath.
ANNOUNCER A shocking induction ceremony
caught on tape.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I will never betray the family.
ANNOUNCER Members of law enforcement pledging
allegiance to the mob? You’ve never seen anything like
it, when 20/20 continues.
(Commercial Break)
BARBARA WALTERS We continue now with one of
the largest roundups of dirty cops in recent memory and
the FBI sting that caught them moonlighting for what
they thought was the mob. As chief correspondent
Chris Wallace picks up the story, a corrections officer
is
about to make a blood pact with the Mafia. At least
that’s what he thinks.
“JOHNNY AMICO” Michael, are you armed?
MICHAEL JOYE Right now? No, sir.
“JOHNNY AMICO” Sal?
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) In the hundreds of hours of
FBI undercover tapes, this may be the most
remarkable—the day the FBI inducted Michael Joye
into the Mafia. The man in the chair is supposed to be
a
Cleveland mob boss. The others, his henchmen.
“JOHNNY AMICO” Did you know why you’re
here?
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) In fact, they are all FBI
agents. And Michael Joye says very convincing
wiseguys. (on camera) Were you scared?
MICHAEL JOYE Oh, yeah. I was scared. That’s black
and white. If it was color, you’d see that I was
actually
real white.
“JOHNNY AMICO” Our bosses are in New York.
Our don—Don Harpini, our underboss, Crazy Joe the
Persecutor (ph).
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The FBI admits it wanted to
intimidate Joye, but only to stop what they say was his
increasingly violent behavior. Joye denies doing
anything to deserve this warning.
“JOHNNY AMICO” No more violence. You are a
businessman. Understand?
MICHAEL JOYE Yes, sir.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Then the FBI agents,
including the one on the right, posing as mobster
Johnny Amico, conduct a ceremony in which Michael
Joye swears his allegiance.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I will never betray the family.
MICHAEL JOYE I will never betray the family.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I pledge obedience to Don
Harpini.
MICHAEL JOYE I pledge obedience to Don Harpini.
“JOHNNY AMICO” All right.
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) How convincing was
Johnny Amico?
MICHAEL JOYE He needs an Academy Award.
CHRIS WALLACE You bought it?
MICHAEL JOYE He needs an Academy Award.
CHRIS WALLACE How do you get agents to do
such a good job impersonating mob figures?
THOMAS PICKARD They watch a lot of television.
“JOHNNY AMICO” To the Gambinos—salud!
GROUP Salud!
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Amico kept the act going
for 15 months, drawing in a total of 44 cops and
corrections officers. But recruiting new officers
became
more difficult, and the sting began to lose steam. (on
camera) Now the FBI was ready to end the operation,
but there was a problem. How to round up all of these
armed officers and make sure they surrendered without
a fight. The city of east Cleveland came up with a
clever
approach. They called in a number of officers here
early
one morning and told them they’d be part of a special
detail that day to protect a distinguished visitor, the
First
Lady. What the officers didn’t know was that waiting
behind that back door were some FBI agents.
FREDDIE CODY, JR. And then, that’s when the FBI
came in and arrested us. They said we were under arrest
for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
GERALD MCFAUL, CUYAHOGA COUNTY
SHERIFF I’m glad the FBI cleaned up my garbage.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Cuyahoga County sheriff
Gerald McFaul had two dozen of his men arrested in
the FBI sting. The news hit Cleveland hard. The sheriff
says he has no sympathy for his officers.
GERALD MCFAUL They’re a disgrace to the
uniform, and they’re a disgrace to this department.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) All 44 pleaded guilty, many
facing possible life sentences if they went to trial.
But
now that they’re behind bars, some are trying to get
out,
claiming they were intimidated into helping with the
drug deals. Michael Joye says the FBI’s own tapes
prove it, pointing to this moment at his induction
ceremony.
“JOHNNY AMICO” One time you disappointment
me, he dies and you die. But I promise you go first.
MICHAEL JOYE I remember that like having
nightmares about this. You know, him poking me in the
chest, telling me I’m going to die if I screw up. And I
was scared to death. Before, I thought I was dead. Now,
I’m really at a point where I think I’m through.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Freddie Cody, Jr. says he
was even more scared of Amico after this conversation,
caught on audio tape.
FREDDIE CODY, JR. Say one of my guys got cold
feet, you know, if they got cold feet and they didn’t
show up ...
“JOHNNY AMICO” Your department would be short
one guy.
FREDDIE CODY, JR. I love all these guys like they
are my brothers.
“JOHNNY AMICO” Guess what? Your family would
be short by one.
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) What did you take
that to mean?
FREDDIE CODY, JR. That if we didn’t show up,
then we would be short, we’ll be dead.
CHRIS WALLACE Everybody show up the next
day?
FREDDIE CODY, JR. Everybody showed up the
next day.
CHRIS WALLACE What they’re saying is they were
afraid. “If I back out, I’m going to be killed by the
mob”?
THOMAS PICKARD These aren’t private citizens
saying that. These are people that we expect to risk
their
lives for the protection of the citizens. And they’re
saying they’re afraid? Everyone’s afraid. But they
know what the right thing to do is.
FREDDIE CODY, JR. You know, I was just afraid.
CHRIS WALLACE But Freddie, why do we need
cops if the cops are afraid of the Mafia?
FREDDIE CODY, JR. I admit that I felt that me being
afraid, maybe I should have never been a cop. But I was
afraid.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The cops and guards also
have an excuse for why they didn’t go back to their
departments for help. They say they didn’t know how
high up the Mafia’s influence extended. (on camera) So
you’re saying you were afraid to go to the sheriff?
MICHAEL JOYE Yes, sir. I was afraid.
CHRIS WALLACE Why?
MICHAEL JOYE Because I thought he—maybe he
was involved in it. I didn’t know who was involved in
it.
GERALD MCFAUL Well, what the hell do they
think? That I’m—I’m the godfather here or what?
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) You don’t buy it, do
you?
GERALD MCFAUL Hell, no. No way, Chris. No
way.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) Sheriff McFaul says what
these officers should have been thinking about was how
to bust Amico and other mobsters.
GERALD MCFAUL They would’ve been heroes,
OK? They would’ve got a pat on the back instead of a
kick in the ass.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) FBI officials say the officers
have made up all these excuses now that they’re in
prison. But that during the sting, they were begging
for
business. They point to tapes like this, where Michael
Joye pushes Amico to give him a bigger payoff.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I figure everybody’s going to
get 15 this time.
MICHAEL JOYE Not going to shoot me—2.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I ain’t got it this time.
MICHAEL JOYE Work me 2, John.
“JOHNNY AMICO” I ain’t—no. I’m telling you, I
ain’t got it this time.
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) Scared? Intimidated?
You sound like you’re bargaining for more money.
“Shoot me 2, John?”
MICHAEL JOYE We all thought we had to be tough
guys for this guy.
CHRIS WALLACE But you sure don’t sound scared.
MICHAEL JOYE I just wanted to know why he cut
the pay, that’s it.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) In fact, for all the talk about
being scared, many of these officers often sounded most
concerned about the money. John Evanish made close
to $20,000 protecting what he thought was the Mafia.
And wait until you hear why he didn’t refuse the
payments.
JOHN EVANISH You don’t betray the family. That’s
the bottom line.
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) And the family is the
Gambino crime family?
JOHN EVANISH Yes, sir.
CHRIS WALLACE And you’re not going to betray
them?
JOHN EVANISH No, sir, not with death threats on my
family and myself. No, I’m not.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) A year after the FBI sting,
there are some lingering questions. Why was it so easy
to recruit 44 law enforcement officers? And how many
more dirty cops and jail guards are still out there?
GERALD MCFAUL Chris, when they leave this
building at 4:30 or when their shift change, I don’t
hold
their hand. I’m not their baby—sitter. So I have no
idea
what they do when they leave this building. They could
go out and smoke it or put it up their nose or sell it.
CHRIS WALLACE (VO) The FBI hopes its sting
sends precisely that tough message to every law
enforcement officer across the country.
THOMAS PICKARD Zero tolerance for corruption.
CHRIS WALLACE (on camera) If you do it, and we
can catch you?
THOMAS PICKARD You’re going to go to jail. You
know the price.
CHRIS WALLACE Some cops apparently don’t need
the warning. Last month, a detective in Buffalo, New
York, arrested a man for bribery after the man, who was
carrying some drugs, offered a payoff. Well, it turned
out that the man the detective busted was actually an
undercover FBI agent investigating corruption. Sam?
SAM DONALDSON Thank you, Chris.
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