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Israel: Police rabbi suspected
Allegations of corruption in the police have already reached high levels, with top corruption-busters and even the country's former top cop among the suspects. On Sunday a new name was added when it was revealed that the Justice Department's Police Investigative Department (PID) is investigating the Israel Police's chief rabbi, Dep.-Cmdr. Rabbi Eliyahu Mugrabi, under suspicion of receiving illegal kickbacks for presiding over family events.
Mugrabi, who was questioned at least once by investigators, has been for several weeks the subject of a PID probe into numerous incidents in wh... Read more
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27 April 2007
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Police Officer Accused in Vide
A Chicago police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a female bartender is in more trouble. He has been charged with trying to intimidate witnesses by threatening to plant drugs on bar employees and arrest customers for drunken driving, prosecutors said Friday.
Prosecutors announced 14 additional felony counts against Anthony Abbate, a 12-year department veteran whose alleged videotaped beating of a female bartender made international headlines.
The charges include seven counts of official misconduct, one count of communicating with a witness, three counts of intimidation and three counts of conspiracy, according to the indictment, filed Thursday.
Abbate, 38, still faces an earlier felony charge of aggravated battery.
He is scheduled to be arraigned on the new charges on May 16.
The charges stem from an alleged beating on Feb. 19 at a tavern on the city's northwest side after bartender Karolina Obrycka, 24, refused to serve the off-duty officer any more drinks.
Video from a tavern surveillance camera shows a man who police said is the 250-pound Abbate punching, beating and throwing the 115-pound woman to the ground. The videotape was subsequently released to the media and shown countless times around the world.
Police announced in March that they were investigating allegations that someone may have tried to bribe or threaten the bartender after the allegedly beating.
The indictment alleges that a woman acting as an intermediary for Abbate told a man -- identified by Obrycka's attorney, Terry Ekl, as the bar's manager -- that Abbate or other police officers would plant illegal drugs on bar employees or customers and arrest them if the videotape was turned over to anyone who could use it to make a case against Abbate. The woman also allegedly said customers would be arrested for drunken driving, the indictment said.
Ekl said the woman was another bartender and a friend of Abbate.
Only Abbate has been charged in the investigation, Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said.
Abbate appeared in court briefly Friday for a previously scheduled status hearing, when prosecutors told the judge they had filed a superseding indictment to the original assault charge. Abbate's attorney, Peter Hickey, said he was angry because he had found out from the media that there were new charges, and told reporters after the hearing that he didn't know what the charges were.
A message left for Hickey at his office Friday was not returned.
Abbate has been placed on leave and police have said they intend to fire him over the alleged beating, which embarrassed the city and police department. Police faced intense criticism because Abbate originally was charged with a misdemeanor, until the videotape became public.
"This is a classic example of why the Chicago Police Department shouldn't be investigating itself," Ekl said Friday. "They had this information within 48 hours of the incident and did nothing about it."
Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline said Abbate had "tarnished our image worse than anybody else in the history of the department," and said he would speed up the process of getting officers accused of misconduct off the street.
Cline, who also had to fend charges that his department was out of control amid reports that another videotape showed six officers beat up four businessmen, announced earlier this month that he was retiring.
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