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Police captain in probe resign
One of the Gainesville Police Department's highest ranking officials resigned Friday afternoon in the midst of a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation into possible misconduct.
Capt. Ray Weaver, who has been with GPD since 1981, resigned effective 5 p.m. Friday, according to Lt. Keith Kameg, the spokesman for GPD.
Weaver's attorney, Gloria Fletcher, said Weaver chose to retire in order to spend more time with his family.
"I think what Capt. Weaver did is he assessed where this is and put his family ahead of everything else," Fletcher said. "Of cou... Read more
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16 November 2006
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Troopers to play role in fight
New Jersey's attorney general announced a new plan Wednesday to enlist state troopers in his drive to root out corrupt public officials.
Stuart Rabner said troopers who now investigate organized crime also will be assigned to public corruption probes. This new anti-corruption tactic will allow state prosecutors to tap into the potentially valuable lists of confidential informants who already leak information to troopers about a range of illicit activities.
"The key to it all is building a stable base of leads," Rabner, the state's chief law enforcement officer, said in an interview.
The move to rely on the resources of the state police to probe corruption signals a departure from recent practice. The agency was discouraged from participating in such probes by former Attorney General Peter Harvey, who served under former Govs. James E. McGreevey and Richard Codey, sources have said.
It is also a major step toward Rabner's goal of making the state Attorney General's Office a front-line soldier in the anti-corruption war. In recent years, the agency has been criticized for producing few indictments of major public officials.
Some inside the Attorney General's Office and state police have privately complained that unseen political forces occasionally blocked public corruption probes in the past.
Rabner has vowed to change that. He said Wednesday that Governor Corzine has assured him that political considerations will play no role in determining whether prosecutors press cases against public officials who have crossed legal boundaries.
Rabner, 46, is a former career federal prosecutor who until recently served as Corzine's chief counsel and trusted adviser on ethics. He has pointed out that the biggest obstacle to launching an assault on public corruption is the state's lack of an informant base, a valuable resource that can take investigators years to build.
Federal prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney's Office often rely on FBI agents to tap their informant rolls. Rabner's new approach replicates this model, with state prosecutors leaning on state troopers for intelligence.
Rabner said his decision follows consultations with Col. Rick Fuentes, the state police superintendent, who has long advocated using troopers to aggressively attack corruption.
Fuentes welcomed the plan.
"We believe there are going to be a lot more cases that will be brought," Fuentes said.
Rabner's predecessor, Zulima Farber, announced earlier this year that more resources would be directed to the anti-corruption fight, which Corzine made a priority in his gubernatorial race last year. Farber tripled the number of investigators from the Division of Criminal Justice that are assigned to ferret out corruption.
Rabner said he will also "more than double" the number of lawyers assigned to the corruption unit at the Attorney General's Office. Currently, there are seven attorneys assigned this role.
This move puts the Attorney General's Office in step with the U.S. Attorney's Office, which has roughly the same number of prosecutors assigned to its public corruption unit in New Jersey.
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