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Australia: Missing police cash prompts ethics probe
ASSISTANT Commissioner Graham Ashton has pledged to improve surveillance after thousands of dollars in cash evidence went missing from Victoria Police's crime department.
The Ethical Standards Department is investigating the suspected theft of $5000 that had been seized as evidence by police in November 2010.
Mr Ashton told The Age yesterday that monitoring equipment and procedures needed to be upgraded in the logistics and exhibits office, where the systems were installed in 2006.
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Audiotapes of conversations between a New Haven police officer who was sentenced Monday on corruption charges and undercover agents have been released.
Former Lt. William White, 64, was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for taking bribes from bail bondsmen and stealing thousands of dollars planted by the FBI during sting operations. His sentence also includes more than $45,000 in restitution and fines.
White can be heard on the tapes offering cash to an undercover FBI agent.
"OK, this is [expletive] easy money," White said.
"No fooling. I wouldn't be doing this," the agent said.
"Look how much money we made over the years," White said.
White, the former head of the New Haven police narcotics unit, was recorded during an FBI sting that was part of an eight-month-long undercover investigation.
"I've made a ton of money off this guy over the years. I bet ya I've made 50, 60 thousand," he said on the tapes.
White admitted to stealing $27,500 that was planted by the FBI in the trunk of a car and another $1,000 planted at a house. He split the money with another officer who was working undercover for the FBI.
"So take what you need, whatever you need to pay the guys," White said on tape.
"All I need off the top I told my informants, I go two of them so…" the undercover officer said. "Take what you need to pay, whatever you need to pay the guys, whatever you need to pay the guys, and then we'll go from there, whatever the money I'll get from him," White said.
"Yeah, I'll take a grand to pay the informants and whatever," the undercover officer said.
White was told the money in the car belonged to a drug dealer. Prosecutors said he took the money even though he expressed concerns it could get a female informant killed.
"I mean, you can go back at night and break the window make it look like somebody broke into the car, you know? You don't want someone to see you breaking the [expletive] window either, call the cops, chasing you all over the [expletive] place, you know," White was recorded saying.
White's defense team said he was a good cop who had a long history of helping others but also suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the slaying of his son 14 years ago.
But prosecutors argued there was no evidence linking his son's death to White's criminal behavior.
The judge said she took White's positive contributions into consideration and opted not to sentence him near the top of the guidelines. But she noted that because of his arrest, citizens lost their trust in those sworn to protect them, calling White a "cop on the take."
"As I think the judge said, there were two very different Billy Whites, and only he will know when he crossed the line and why he crossed the line," FBI Special Agent Kim Mertz said.
White was arrested in March 2007 and pleaded guilty last October to conspiracy to commit bribery and theft of government property.
Under sentencing guidelines, he faced 37 to 48 months in prison.
White is scheduled to begin serving his 38-month sentence on June 10.
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