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- THE WEEK, Page 24SOCIETYRight from the Crime Fund Coffers
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- Motown's erstwhile top cop gets caught with his hand in the till
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- 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.
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