Rapper's Lawyer charged with all kinds of stuff
Bo Raxo
against murder charges, he's accused of planting evidence on a gang leader,
stealing money intended for crime victims, laundering money from the sale of
drugs stolen from a police evidence room, bribery...
Maybe he'll claim he was just keepin' it real.
Bo Raxo
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8269260.htm
Memphis, Tenn., Lawyer Is Charged with Laundering Drug-Money Evidence
By Chris Conley, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune
Business News
Mar. 24 - A federal grand jury Tuesday charged Memphis lawyer Scott
Crawford -- already facing federal bribery charges -- with laundering
profits from drugs stolen from the Memphis police evidence room.
Also indicted Tuesday was the civilian employee hired in December 2000 to
rectify sloppy record-keeping and security lapses in the property and
evidence room.
Crawford, 34, is accused of funneling drug money through his private law
firm for accused drug dealer Patrick Maxwell. In one transaction, more than
$81,000 in drug money was allegedly laundered through Crawford's account.
Maxwell was indicted in September in a conspiracy to sell drugs stolen from
the property room.
Crawford allegedly received the tainted money from an intermediary, bought
cashier's checks and delivered them to Maxwell's account.
The indictment does not name the intermediary.
Crawford also was indicted Tuesday on separate charges of pocketing money
from state funds earmarked to pay medical bills of crime victims. In three
instances, checks from the Criminal Injury Compensation Fund were converted
to cash. All three payments were for more than $10,000. Crawford allegedly
took 25 percent of the payment in one instance.
No one else has been charged in that alleged scheme.
Also on Tuesday, Jay T. Liner, the former civilian head of the property and
evidence room, was indicted on a charge of possessing a handgun stolen from
the facility.
Tuesday's indictments put Crawford at the intersection of three major
criminal investigations -- one involving a rap singer charged with shooting
a Shelby County sheriff's deputy, a second case involving gang leaders
attempting to bribe cops, and the ongoing investigation into theft of drugs
and other valuables from the police department evidence room.
Crawford was indicted earlier this month on charges of trying to fix
criminal cases by offering bribes to a Memphis police lieutenant posing as a
crooked cop.
Those cases involved the alleged head of the local Gangster Disciples,
Jeffrey Holliday; the alleged head of the Vice Lords, Eric Holley; and New
Orleans-based rap star Tab 'Turk' Virgil.
Crawford also was charged then with trying to frame another gang leader by
having drugs and an illegal gun planted on him.
A lawyer in Memphis since 1995, Crawford has served numerous times as a
special judge in General Sessions Criminal Court.
The investigation of Crawford began when Virgil was charged with wounding an
officer serving a drug search warrant at a Hickory Hill apartment.
An informant in that case, questioned after the shooting, expressed fears
that his "thug" attorney (Crawford) would learn of the cooperation, and leak
that information to gang members.
The informant's tip evolved into a sting operation in which Memphis police
Lt. Jeff Clark posed as a cop on the take and documented bribes paid by
Crawford to affect the attempted-murder case against Virgil and gun charges
against Holliday and Holley.
The property and evidence room investigation, begun separately early last
year, culminated in late September when property-room manager Kenneth
Dansberry was arrested. He told federal agents about massive thefts of drugs
and money from the evidence room.
He said he had stolen so many times "that I can't remember." Dansberry has
pleaded guilty in that case, and named others allegedly involved in the
thefts.
Dansberry and another civilian employee were charged with stealing drugs --
in one case 10 kilograms (more than 22 pounds) -- from the facility and
selling them to Maxwell, a former property-room employee.
When Dansberry and others were arrested in September, more than a $1 million
in cash was taken from Dansberry's home and car. So much money was sitting
in his Cordova home that it had begun to grow mold, federal agents said.
Five days after Dansberry's arrest, Liner surrendered to the FBI and turned
over items stolen from the property room, among them a pistol, a Rolex
watch, golf clubs, laptop computers and champagne.
Liner had been brought in to tighten controls in the evidence room in early
2002, following a state audit detailing security breaches.
"Things have improved 500 percent since Jay Liner took over as manager, his
boss, Insp. J. D. King, said at the time.
Andy Katz
Two counts of All Kinds Of Stuff in the first degree!
Wonder what the standard bail is.
Andy Katz
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Being lied to so billionaires can wage war for profits
while indebting taxpayers for generations to come, now
that's just a tad bit bigger than not admitting you like
the big moist-moist lips of chunky trollops on your pecker.
Paghat, the Rat Girl
Bo Raxo
"Andy Katz" <amk...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:p4fg60phk74233ui2...@4ax.com...
> Love the thread title:
>
> Two counts of All Kinds Of Stuff in the first degree!
>
> Wonder what the standard bail is.
>
> Andy Katz
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Bail would be, um, a whole lotta money.