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06/06/15 00:00 from NYT > Police
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Patrick Lynch, Police Union Chief Who Fought de Blasio, Wins a 5th Term

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Beating back his first challenge in a decade, Patrick J. Lynch, the irascible police union boss, was re-elected on Friday as the president of the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
Mr. Lynch, 51, received 70 percent of the vote and defeated two opponents, Brian Fusco and Ronald Wilson, to win a fifth four-year term.
His re-election came six months after he fought a nasty public war with Mayor Bill de Blasio during which he attacked the mayor for showing sympathy to protesters who marched after the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who was put in a chokehold by the police. Mr. Lynch later declared that Mr. de Blasio had “blood on the hands” in the murders of two Brooklyn police officers.
Announcing his victory, Mr. Lynch said in a statement, “We are extremely gratified that our members have recognized the hard work and successes that Team Lynch has achieved on their behalf.” He said he would continue to work in the members’ best interests.
Mr. Fusco, a high-ranking association official and a former ally of Mr. Lynch, called it a hard-fought race. “The members of the P.B.A. were able to hear our positions on the critical issues facing police officers,” he said. “The members have spoken, and we respect their decision.”
In a statement, Mr. Wilson thanked his supporters. “Now it’s time for the union to all band together and stand behind Paddy,” he said.
Throughout the campaign, Mr. Lynch, who has led the union since 1999, faced criticism from his challengers over his failure to secure a contract for the 23,000 members of his union who have been working without one since 2010. He was also assailed for not stopping Gov. David A. Paterson from slashing pension benefits for newly hired officers in 2009.
A wily politician given to strategic bursts of outrage, Mr. Lynch alienated some of his members, and much of the public, this winter when he called on the police to sign petitions to keep Mr. de Blasio from attending their funerals if they were killed on the job, and he quietly stood by as his officers engaged in a work slowdown on summonses and quality-of-life arrests.
In January, some of Mr. Fusco’s supporters rose in mutiny against him during an association meeting at a catering hall in Queens, demanding that he drop his fight with the mayor and concentrate instead on the business of the union.
Though an opinion poll around that time showed that nearly 80 percent of New York voters considered his attacks on Mr. de Blasio “too extreme,” Mr. Lynch focused his campaign on his constituency of rank-and-file officers. He visited roll calls at precinct station houses around the city to promote his successes, including his claim of having raised police salaries by more than 50 percent during his tenure.
Mr. Lynch was unapologetic for having sparred with the mayor, saying that he was merely giving voice to his members’ beliefs and that his angry statements eventually caused Mr. de Blasio to show more respect for the police.
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Oakland police fatally shoot suspect near Lake Merritt - SFGate

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Oakland police shot and killed an armed suspect near Lake Merritt Saturday morning, the first fatal shooting involving city police in two years, authorities said.
The incident began at 7:27 a.m. when police were summoned to investigate reports by firefighters that a man in a gray 2005 BMW was passed out and armed with a gun at Lake Park Avenue and Lakeshore Avenue, at the end of the off-ramp from Interstate 580.
The man had a loaded black handgun with a 30-round extended magazine on the passenger seat, police said.
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Officers took up positions around the car and cordoned off the area. Officers deployed “less-lethal” projectiles to break out the car’s windows in hopes of waking the man, police said. He didn’t respond. Then officers approached the car and smashed the passenger side window with a metal pipe in what police said was an “attempt to establish communication with the driver.”
About 8:40 a.m., police engaged the suspect — who was by then awake — and a confrontation ensued during which one officer fired a Taser shock weapon and a second fired a gun, said Police Chief Sean Whent. The man, whose name wasn’t released, died at Highland Hospital in Oakland.
The BMW was the same car briefly chased by police hours earlier after a burglary in San Francisco, Whent said. It was unclear if the slain man was a suspect in the burglary, he said.
A section of bustling Lakeshore Avenue and the I-580 off-ramp was closed for much of the day as police examined the scene.
The shooting is under investigation by police and the Alameda County district attorney’s office. Footage from the officers’ body cameras will be reviewed, the chief said. It is Oakland’s first fatal officer involved shooting since May 2013, police said.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said she is “actively making sure that the protocols and supervision we’ve worked hard to put in place as part of our police reforms are being followed rigorously as this shooting is thoroughly investigated. Our community deserves all of the accurate and timely information that can be provided.”
Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee
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New York State Police searching for escaped "dangerous" inmates | Local News

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DANNEMORA, N.Y. —New York State Police say they are searching for two inmates described as "dangerous" who escaped overnight from Clinton Correctional Facility.
Troopers say they received a call from the facility at 5:45 a.m. Saturday regarding two prisoners that were unaccounted for during a 5:30 a.m. bed check.
The prisoners have been identified as 48-year-old Richard Matt and 34-year-old David Sweat, both are convicted murderers.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo toured the route the inmates are believed to have taken.
The Governor calls the escape "extraordinary" and says it's the first time anyone has escaped from the maximum security portion of the facility since it opened in 1865.
Authorities say the pair apparently used power tools to drill their way through cells, a series of tunnels and eventually out a manhole cover.
According to authorities, the men left items in their cells to appear as though they were inside and asleep during routine checks.
Authorities are working to investigate how the men obtained the necessary tools to carry out such an elaborate plan.
Troopers describe Matt as white, six feet tall, and 210 pounds with black hair and hazel eyes.  They say he has tattoos on back “Mexico Forever”, a heart on his chest and left shoulder, and a marine corps insignia on his right shoulder.
Sweat is described as white, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and 165 pounds with brown hair and green eyes.  Police say he has tattoos on his left bicep and his right fingers.
Troopers stress both are considered to be dangerous and should not be approached if located.
State police say Matt is serving a sentence of 25 years to life for kidnapping a man and beating him to death in Niagara County.  Sweat was convicted of first-degree murder of a sheriff's deputy in Broome County and is serving a sentence of life without parole, they said.
State police have set up numerous roadblocks in the greater Dannemora area as they search for the escapees.  WPTZ's Vanessa Misciagna reports armed troopers are searching every vehicle on Route 374 at a police checkpoint, and dozens of troopers and corrections officers are searching the woods off Smith Street.
Anyone who sees people resembling the prisoners or with any information should call State Police at 563-3761.
WPTZ will continue to update you with the latest details on this breaking news situation.
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Detroit police officer shot on city's east side

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DETROIT (WXYZ) - A Detroit police officer has been shot on the city's east side. Police Chief James Craig tells 7 Action News it happened Saturday afternoon near Rosemary and Chalmers.
Chief Craig tells us officers responded around 4:45 p.m. to a report of shots fired in the area. He said upon arriving they collided with a car. Craig said one witness reported seeing a man standing outside the vehicle firing at police just after the collision. One of the officers stepped out and returned fire, grazing the 18-year-old driver of the car in the chin. The officer was grazed in the foot. Chief Craig said it's unclear whether the round that struck the officer was self-inflicted. Both the officer and the teenager were taken to St. John Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
“We do believe right now in the investigation that the officer was faced with a threat and responded by using deadly force," Chief Craig said.
A 15-year-old passenger of the vehicle was detained for questioning. Chief Craig added the possible suspect is described as a black man in his 20s. Investigators are still trying to piece together the details of the investigation.
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Oakland Police Fatally Shoot Armed Suspect Near Lake Merritt

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Many questions remain Saturday night in the East Bay after Police shoot and kill a man spotted asleep in his car with a gun nearby. The incident took place Saturday morning near the Lakeshore 580 off-ramp. Chuck Coppola reports from the scene. (Published Sunday, Jun 7, 2015)
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said she is "actively" making sure proper protocols were in place when an Oakland police officer fatally shot a suspect found sleeping with a handgun in his car this morning.
In a statement released by her office today, Schaaf said all uses of force are taken seriously and should be closely examined "for the safety and assurance of the public and law enforcement."
"I am actively making sure that the protocols and supervision we've worked hard to put in place as part of our police reforms are being followed rigorously as this shooting is thoroughly investigated," Schaaf said. "Our community deserves all of the accurate and timely information that can be provided."
Police were notified around 7:30 a.m. of an unresponsive driver who had a gun in a car near the Lakeshore Avenue off-ramp from Interstate Highway 580, according to Oakland police Chief Sean Whent.

Oakland Police Fatally Shoot Armed Suspect Near Lake Merritt

[BAY] Oakland Police Fatally Shoot Armed Suspect Near Lake Merritt
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said she is "actively" making sure proper protocols were in place when an Oakland police officer fatally shot a suspect found sleeping with a handgun in his car this morning. Chuck Coppola reports. (Published Saturday, Jun 6, 2015)
Whent said officers blocked off the area and spent roughly an hour trying to wake the suspect.
Officers deployed beanbag rounds at the car in an attempt to get the driver's attention, but police said the driver was unresponsive.
Officers then approached the car with a metal pipe to break the passenger-side window in an attempt to talk to the driver, police said.
At that point, the officers were able to confirm that a gun was inside the car, according to police.
Whent said that during the last attempt to contact the driver, officers approached the car, the person woke up and then a confrontation ensued.
One officer deployed a Taser and another officer used a gun, Whent said. The driver was struck by bullets and transported to Highland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Whent.
Police said officers found a loaded gun with an attached illegal extended magazine and said the car had been used in a burglary that occurred last night in San Francisco.
San Francisco police confirmed the car was used in a burglary reported around 8 p.m. at the Lands End visitor's center. The vehicle fled from police.
The case is being handled by the U.S. Park Police, according to San Francisco police.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office is investigating the shooting, per the department's policy, along with the Oakland Police Department's homicide unit and its internal affairs division.
There were 12 officers on scene who are being interviewed and Whent said investigators are reviewing the footage from their body-worn cameras.
The shooting is the first fatal officer-involved shooting since May 2013, according to police.
Published at 11:17 AM PDT on Jun 6, 2015
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Los Angeles Chief Finds Killing by Police Was Lawful

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles police chief and his department’s independent watchdog have found that a fatal close-range shooting of a 25-year-old black man by officers last year was justified, a department source said.
However, the findings by Chief Charlie Beck and the inspector general are only recommendations to the Police Commission, which will determine after a hearing on Tuesday whether the shooting of Ezell Ford was within department policy.
The findings were confirmed Friday by a Police Department employee with knowledge of the investigation who was not authorized to release them and did so on the condition of anonymity.
Mr. Ford died after being shot multiple times by Los Angeles police officers on Aug. 11. Demonstrators connected the death with that of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., just days earlier.
According to the Police Department, Mr. Ford was acting suspiciously when he caught the attention of two officers on a neighborhood patrol. When confronted by officers, Mr. Ford allegedly knocked one officer to the ground and was grappling for the officer’s holstered weapon when the second officer fired two shots. The first officer pulled out a backup gun and shot Mr. Ford in the back, Chief Beck said last year.
Mr. Ford’s parents believe the shooting was unjustified. They have filed a federal lawsuit and a $75 million claim against the city alleging the officers knew Mr. Ford and were aware he had a mental illness.
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Watsonville police officer shot, gunman dead | Local News

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WATSONVILLE, Calif. —Watsonville police said an officer is in stable condition after being shot in the stomach while on duty.
The person who shot him is dead, according to police. 
It happened just before 7 p.m. Saturday at San Juan Road and Porter Drive.
Watsonville police said five police officers were chasing the suspect when the person opened fire, shooting an officer.
It was not immediately known how many shots were exchanged between the gunman and police. 
The wounded officer was taken to a hospital and is expected to live.
Police are investigating why officers were chasing the suspect. 

Baltimore police shoot armed man in face

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A police officer shot a man in the face Sunday morning after he ran into a garage in Northwest Baltimore holding a gun, officials said.
Officers had been at a car crash at the corner of W. Belvedere and St. Charles avenues nearby just before 10 a.m., when they were tipped off that the man had a gun, said Col. Garnell Green, of the Officer of Internal Oversight.
They saw him and chased him three blocks to the 5200 block of Eleanora Ave., where he ran into the garage and two other people ran out, Green said.
Shots were fired, and one of the officers shot the suspect in the face, Green said. Police did not say whether the suspect fired his gun.
He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, Green said. He was listed in critical, but stable condition, according to police.
No officers were injured, police said.
The gun was recovered at the scene, police said, and detectives with the department's Force Investigation Team are investigating.
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Denver police arrest hundreds as part of a crackdown on gangs - The Denver Post

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By Noelle Phillips
The Denver Post
Posted:   06/07/2015 12:01:00 AM MDT79 Comments | Updated:   about 5 hours ago

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Denver mayor Michael Hancock makes a statement to criminals who have been a part of the recent surge of violence in the city Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the Denver City and County Building. (Brent Lewis, Denver Post file)
The Denver Police Department's Facebook posts tell stories of cops pulling over cars, arresting the people inside and confiscating guns and drugs.
The posts fall under the heading "Zero Tolerance" and sometimes include a drawing of a wolf's snarling face, part of the gang bureau's logo.
Police officials say these arrests are part of their crackdown on gang violence in northeast Denver neighborhoods. Since April 27, 384 people have been arrested on various felony and misdemeanor charges, according to police department statistics provided to The Denver Post. An additional 2,168 people have been contacted by police, including 738 gang members.
Twenty-nine guns have been confiscated, and 29 stolen vehicles have been recovered, the police department reported.

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Police also acknowledge they are walking a fine line between rounding up gangsters and profiling neighborhood residents, many of whom are black or Latino.
Since the effort began, the police department has received just one formal harassment complaint, said Deputy Chief David Quinones.
"We don't want to be a heavy-handed police state in this part of the city," Quinones said. "This was the only thing that was going to get their attention."
However, some rumbling has started in the targeted neighborhoods — Cole, Park Hill and Whittier — that police are harassing young black and Latino people.

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Denis Maes, public policy director for the ACLU of Colorado, said she has been asked to hold a seminar for a youth outreach group to explain what procedures police must follow to search someone's car, house or coat pockets.
"People don't really know what their rights are, but it is easy to feel intimidated and scared," Maes said. "There is a balance, and it's not necessarily an easy one."
Francisco Gallardo, program director for Gang Rescue and Support Project, said the recent gang enforcement is nothing new. Instead, he believes police are publicizing their stops and arrests because of pressure to stop the violence.
"The kids always feel like the cops are after them," Gallardo said. "It's always been that way."
Gallardo said police must be judicious in deciding whom they target. Sometimes, an arrest can cause a young person trying to leave gangs to backslide, he said.
"The cops, on one hand, will say, 'They are gang members. That's what they signed up for,' " Gallardo said. "But kids who are in transition and trying to do something different, the cops are bumping them up."
Family members pray with members of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver on Wednesday at the scene of a double shooting at Williams Street and East 35th
Family members pray with members of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver on Wednesday at the scene of a double shooting at Williams Street and East 35th Avenue the night before in Denver. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
The crackdown started the week of April 27, following a particularly violent week after months of back-and-forth shootings between rival gangs. There have been 12 gang-related homicides in 2015 in Denver.
Neighbors held a peace rally in the Cole Neighborhood. Mayor Michael Hancock and Police Chief Robert White held a news conference, pledging to stop the violence. The mayor gave the police department money for overtime so officers could flood the neighborhoods and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms installed 15 cameras in the area.
But police have said they cannot arrest their way out of the problem, prompting meetings with community groups and a rollout of summer activities to keep young people off the streets.
When police decided to boost their enforcement, commanders talked to patrol and gang task force officers about balancing tough enforcement with a respect for residents and their civil rights, Quinones said.
The police department's commanders believe they have made in-roads in recent years to improve relationships in minority neighborhoods. The last thing they want is overzealous officers to damage the progress, Quinones said.
Officers were told to focus on known gang members and to avoid treating everyone in the neighborhood as if they were suspected criminals, he said
Denver gang arrest
Denver Police Chief Robert White speaks with the media about what the department needs from the community to help them combat the recent surge of gang violence Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the Denver City and County Building. (Brent Lewis, Denver Post file)
They named their enforcement initiative "zero tolerance."
Police have been tight-lipped about their enforcement strategy, but the department's Facebook posts under the Zero Tolerance heading provide a glimpse of how arrests are made.
For example, two officers stopped a car that ran a four-way stop in the 6000 block of East 35th Avenue and learned the passenger in the front seat had a prior conviction for possession of a firearm by a juvenile, according to a May 29 Facebook post.
The driver consented to a search, and the officers found a stolen, loaded pistol, a ski mask and a bandana, the Facebook page said. The 17-year-old passenger in the front seat was arrested.
And police see their string of arrests and obvious presence in northeast Denver as successful. Shootings are down, Quinones said, pointing to numbers from a recently installed system that identifies gunshots in certain areas of the city. There were four shootings between May 25 and June in the targeted areas, compared with 13 during the week of April 27 to May 3, according to records provided by police.
Police reluctantly agree the cold, rainy weather in May also helped reduce violence.
"We have not stopped the violence, but we have disrupted the cycle," Quinones said. "It could take just one more flare-up to the whole cycle of retaliation going again."
Noelle Phillips: 303-954-1661, <a href="mailto:nphillips@denverpost.com">nphillips@denverpost.com</a> or twitter.com/Noelle_Phillips
Denver police department's gang initiative
Denver police say their recent crackdown on gang members in northeast Denver has reduced the number of shootings between April 27 and June 1. During that period, police reported the following activity:
107 felony arrests
277 misdemeanor arrests
29 firearms recovered
29 stolen cars recovered
738 gang members contacted by police
844 non-gang members contacted by police
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Police conducted wiretaps in Assembly extortion probe

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Las Vegas police conducted secret court-approved wiretaps during their investigation into an attempted extortion plot against Nevada Republican Assemblyman Chris Edwards, a police affidavit unsealed Friday disclosed.
One of the targets of the cellphone wiretaps was longtime Republican activist Tony Dane, who police allege was the central figure in the scheme but who has not been charged with a crime, according to a copy of the affidavit obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Another wiretap target was Republican Assemblyman Brent Jones of Las Vegas, who was suspected of helping fund Dane’s political operations.
With police permission, Edwards also secretly recorded face-to-face conversations in Las Vegas with Dane, Jones and other players.
The covert recordings, mostly made in January, provided police with an insider’s view of the political shenanigans occurring within the ranks of Nevada Assembly Republicans in recent months.
Police released a statement Friday saying the Clark County district attorney’s office in the coming week will be notifying people whose phone calls were intercepted. Those receiving a notice were not necessarily a target of the investigation, police said.
Dane, an anti-tax advocate, is alleged to have laid out the extortion plot in a recorded meeting with Edwards on Jan. 10 as part of a bid to win Edwards’ support for a move to replace moderate Republican Assembly Speaker John Hambrick of Las Vegas with Elko conservative John Ellison.
According to the affidavit, Dane said he was backed by a “person or persons who had a large amount of money and who wanted to install conservative Republicans” in office.
“Dane told Edwards that if he tells his employer that Edwards is ‘one of us,’ his employer will trust Dane and not fund a recall effort against Edwards,” the affidavit says.
It was unclear in the affidavit whether Dane, a longtime Nevada political consultant who operates a robo-calling business covering several states from his home near Washington, really had an employer. In state records, he listed all of his $245,000 in contributions to his CRC Political Action Committee last year as coming from either himself or his political consultancy, Dane & Associates.
In a Jan. 25 cellphone call, Dane is heard telling Jones he was avoiding sending him invoices because word was out that Republican Assembly Caucus members were giving him money to go after moderates willing to support some new taxes.
“So I don’t want any trace, even though there’s nothing illegal about it,” Dane said. “I don’t think it’s good for your career to do that. So um, so um, I don’t want no record of transactions between us.”
Dane said he would give Jones his wife’s bank account, which was under her maiden name, so Jones could deposit money there to “well, keep it clean.”
The 30-page affidavit, based on information provided by Las Vegas police Intelligence Detective William Schoen, was filed in Virginia by the state police there to obtain a search warrant for Dane’s Northern Virginia home in February.
The Las Vegas investigation is focusing on allegations of bribery, extortion, illegal wiretapping and the filing of false public documents with the secretary of state’s office involving Dane’s CRC PAC.
Police again said Friday that they do not plan to recommend charges against any state lawmakers. The investigation began in December after Edwards reported he was being pressured to change his vote for Assembly speaker. Republicans eventually installed Hambrick as speaker in February, following a contentious caucus fight.
According to the affidavit, the investigation took off after a Dec. 29, 2014, meeting between Edwards and Rob Lauer, a political activist close to Jones. Edwards secretly recorded the meeting with the knowledge of police, who also believed Lauer did the same. However, Lauer’s lawyer said his client did not record the meeting.
Prior to the meeting, an intermediary had delivered a message to Edwards from Lauer promising Edwards a $10,000 campaign donation, another $50,000 from a political action committee to retire his campaign debt and a chairmanship of a new veterans affairs committee — if he would vote against Hambrick.
Edwards went to police.
At the meeting with Lauer, Edwards was told he was the important swing vote, the affidavit says. But when Edwards pressed Lauer about the offer of cash he had received from the intermediary, Lauer said any such offer would be illegal. Lauer has publicly denied wrongdoing.
The scheme to extort Edwards began to take shape during that meeting, the affidavit alleges, with Dane saying he knew someone willing to sign an affidavit that Edwards had solicited a $10,000 bribe to vote against Hambrick. Dane did not identify the person, but detectives believed it was Lauer, the police affidavit states.
Dane is alleged to have told Edwards an affidavit about the alleged solicitation of a bribe was about to be filed with the secretary of state’s office, but he could “bury it” if Edwards voted the “right way.”
Dane also offered Edwards $40,000 toward his campaign debt and up to $150,000 for a future Assembly race, and promised to hold back political fliers attacking Edwards over his stance on taxes, according to the affidavit. He also told Edwards he would not reveal recordings of negative phone conversations between Edwards and constituents obtained through his robo-calling system.
Finally, Dane said he would get a widely conservative Nevada blogger to write positive things about Edwards.
“The affidavit really speaks for itself,” Edwards said in an interview Friday. “Obviously the investigation is continuing.”
David Otto, who represents Dane and Lauer, called the affidavit a “pack of lies” unlikely to result in criminal charges.
“That affidavit shows no evidence of any crime whatsoever,” he said. “All Metro did was interfere in the political process for their own benefit. Political deals of the kind discussed in the affidavit are made by every politician, every PAC, every large donor in every political jurisdiction in this country on a daily basis.”
Jones’ role in the effort to win over Edwards is further described in the affidavit.
On Jan. 18 Edwards, with police permission, secretly recorded a Las Vegas meeting with Jones arranged by Dane, the affidavit says.
Jones eventually admitted to investigators that he knew about the Lauer bribe affidavit, and he told Edwards that his political troubles within the GOP, including a possible recall, would go away if he started acting like a conservative.
“Tony told me, he said, you get this thing done with Chris and then he’s calling off the dogs. That’s what he told me,” Jones is quoted as saying in the affidavit.
Edwards responded, “So then if I don’t support Ellison, then the dogs are on.”
“They’re full on,” Jones replied. “Everything’s full force.”
Review-Journal reporter Sandra Chereb contributed to this report. Contact Jeff German atjgerman@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-8135. Follow @JGermanRJ on Twitter.
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