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- <text id=92TT1097>
- <title>
- May 18, 1992: Right from the Crime Fund Coffers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 18, 1992 Roger Keith Coleman:Due to Die
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Right from the Crime Fund Coffers
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- <p>Motown's erstwhile top cop gets caught with his hand in the till
- </p>
- <p> When the police chief in a city as violence plagued as
- Detroit pilfers megabucks from a crime-fighting fund, no judge is
- likely to be lenient. Last week former police chief William Hart
- was convicted of stealing $2.6 million dollars from his
- department, in part to procure lavish gifts for his three
- mistresses. More money bankrolled a $1,000-a-week lottery habit
- and renovations on a Candadian vacation cottage. During the TV
- movie-like trial, an ex-police officer reported seeing $20,000
- fall out of a cracked ceiling in Hart's house. The former
- chief's escapades could land him a 26-year prison sentence.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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