Chief Moose's wife: Give us book deal, we need 'antiques'!

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Thursday, June 5, 2003

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D.C. SNIPER TERROR
Chief Moose's wife: Give us
book deal, we need 'antiques'!
Says highest-paid cop just wants 'white group' to give him 'permission to
make some money'

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Posted: June 5, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern



By Paul Sperry

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C 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose's wife
complained about a lack of household "antiques" in trying to sway the county
ethics board here to let her husband profit from a major book deal he signed
after the Beltway sniper case, a transcript of her closed-door testimony
reveals.



Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose and wife Sandy (Courtesy:
Willamette Week )

Sandy Herman-Moose argued that her husband, who led the sniper
investigation, was entitled to a special exemption to ethics rules against
county officials profiting from the prestige of their office, because he has
"served the public for 20 some years," sacrificing private gain.

She said she also has "worked hard," accumulating diplomas, books and
papers, but few household luxuries.

"I was an activist in Portland. Before we moved here, basically we moved
books and documents, and the mover said, 'Mrs. Moose, you don't have any
antiques,'" she said. "And I said, 'My husband has a PhD and have a law
degree, and we have papers.'"

Chief Moose, testifying alongside her at the March 3 hearing here, cited
"law school bills," among other things, in pleading for a waiver from
conflict-of-interest rules. He said his $170,000 book deal was a
"once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity, and he didn't want to pass up "this good
fortune."

Ten people died in last fall's sniper shooting spree, several in Moose's
jurisdiction. Three others were critically injured.

"We've been working our asses off for 20 years, all due respect," Sandy
Moose told the five-member Montgomery County Ethics Commission.

The panel denied Moose's request for a waiver, effectively killing his book
contract with New York publisher Dutton Publishing Inc.

But Moose, in turn, has filed a lawsuit against the county in federal court,
charging it violated his right to free speech and expression under the First
Amendment. He is pressing ahead with the book, which had been scheduled for
release this fall with the start of the trials of sniper suspects John
Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.

His wife, a civil-rights activist, suggested at the hearing that the chief,
who is black, was being discriminated against.

"He has served in organizations that's [sic] full of institutionalized
racism beyond anything you can imagine," Sandy Herman-Moose said.

"And he is asking a fully white group to give him the permission to make
some money," she added.

After the panel ruled against her husband, she compared him to Martin Luther
King, Nelson Mandela and other civil-rights leaders who "stood for
principle."

Moose's lawyer, Ronald A. Karp, told WorldNetDaily yesterday that he does
not plan to argue racial discrimination in his federal lawsuit.

Earning more than $160,000 a year, his client is the highest-paid official
in the county, and the highest-paid police chief in the state.

Previous stories:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32239
Mooses set
up biz 4 weeks after killing spree

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32218
Moose's officers compare chief to Rev. Al Sharpton

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31951
Police union probes Moose

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31820
Police tried to make eyewitness doubt initial ID

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31764
Pizza guy ID's snipers on Day 1, yet cops ignore info

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31613
Secret sniper stake-out puts lie to Moose claim

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31545
Cops: Chief Moose withheld look-out on sniper suspects

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31549
Moose denies blocking police pay raise

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29331
Beltway sniper likely foreign

Related column:


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29590 Race-conscious chief may
have cost lives

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Paul Sperry <mailto[email protected]> is Washington bureau chief
for WorldNetDaily.

 

[Baba Louie]

The Moose chose a life of service making pretty good money for a man who's out of the line of fire, off the streets. He now faces another struggle as a black man in America... how to make more money, legally, while going against the grain.

He's obviously chosen to get back into the line of fire, albeit another form of fire...

Were I him, I'd await my "Book Deal" to encompass the entire span of his continued struggle against the "all-white" system he faces. Might make for better reading.

I do so hope that he writes it in the first person in his own language, using his own grammar and his editor lets it ride as is..

Perhaps a chapter or two from his beloved, since I do truly enjoy reading her spoken stylistic ramblings as well. Wife of a famous lawman, activist in her own right and all.

You go Chief. Keep her on the money trail. Eventually you'll retire a millionaire.

Adios

 

[treeprof]

Anxiously awaiting the audio version.

 

[rrader]

I wonder if Moose will include a chapter in his book detailling how his well documented anti-white racisim led directly to the deaths of the last two victims of Malvo and Muhammad.

Moose refused consistently over the course of the ambush killings to release the eyewitness reports from the first day's killings in Aspen Hill MD that the shooters were two Black men in a dark colored Chevy sedan. Moose is reported to have refused to release this info in preference to the FBI profiler's conjecture that the shooter had to be a lone, white male with prior military service.

When given confirmation that Malvo and Muhammad were the prime suspects several days prior to their capture, Moose still refused to release this info.

In Moose's book (no pun intended) it's racisist to profile folks if they're Black, it's not racisim to use profiling if they're White. Moose has taken every step possible while Chief in Montgomery County to abolish any vestige of profiling, unless it targets whites.

This is well in keeping with the many well documented incidents of anti-white bigotry Moose has demonstrated.

Maybe the hard-left extremists on the Montgomery County Council will use some criteria other than skin color to select the next Chief of Police. It certainly has not worked out well in the selection of Moose.

Every day that passes makes me more glad I moved out of Montgomery County MD, that socialist piss-hole.

I wonder if there will be a chapter on his fascist idea to use the information gleaned from the tip line set up during the killings to target residents of Montgomery County who may possibly own illegal firearms. Getting neighbor to inform against neighbor, always the hallmark of a good fascist like Moose.

 

[critter]

Hay guys, lay off the chief. I REALLY want to read his book--------------------JUST AS SOON AS I FINISH HILLERY'S!!!!!!!!!!

(I DO NOT suggest you hold your breath till I post a book review!)

 

[Boats]

He said his $170,000 book deal was a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity, and he didn't want to pass up "this good
fortune."

He should be fired for this comment alone, pleading his "good fortune," an "opportunity" bought by the deaths of others, some of whom he helped to plant through his refusal to believe some black guys might be behind it.

I am so glad this moron found his true level in Maryland.

 

[moa]

To quote Treeprof:

"Anxiously awaiting the audio version."

Now THAT is funny.

 

[gun-fucious]

http://www.gazette.net/200323/montgomerycty/county/161426-1.html


Meanwhile, at home, dissatisfaction with Moose is apparently deepening among his officers.

The police union has set up a committee to investigate whether Moose withheld information from his officers in October that the sniper task force was zeroing in on the two suspects, thereby jeopardizing officers' safety. The committee is also looking into why police were chasing white box trucks during the entire 22-day ordeal.

"Information [about the suspects] was withheld when officers were on the street," union President Walter E. Bader, who represents 1,050 officers, told The Gazette. "That is very dangerous."

Officers were not given descriptions of suspects John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo or their car until the evening before their Oct. 24 arrest at a Frederick County rest stop. The union believes Moose and others on the sniper task force had that information at least a day earlier.

Asked if the Moose investigation is a precursor to a no-confidence vote, Bader replied, "We have discussed that.

"It doesn't take a vote of no confidence to show that officers have lost confidence," he said. "The general feeling out there is well known. There is great disappointment in his conduct."

Cpl. Mike Willis, a sergeant-in-arms at the union, agreed.

"There is a lot of dissatisfaction among the rank and file. It is the perception that the department had a lot of information that they did not reveal," Willis said, adding that he was expressing his opinion.

Union members voted in March to set up the five-member committee. It was slated to release its final report on Monday, but Bader said it would take longer.

The union's action was first reported last month by WorldNetDaily.com, a Web site run by conservative newsman Joseph Farah out of Cave Junction, Ore.

Assistant Police Chief John A. King flatly rejected Bader's contention that officers were placed in danger.

"It is a dangerous profession. We would not put them in additional danger," he said. "We didn't withhold pertinent information."

Officers are also contemptuous of the chief's legal dispute with the county Ethics Commission over its March denial of the book deal he signed with Dutton Books in January. Moose has sued the commission in federal court and is seeking a judicial review of its denial in county Circuit Court.

"The rank and file have serious concerns about the self-centeredness of Charles Moose," Bader said. Moose's lawyer, Ronald A. Karp, did not return two calls.

"Chief Moose is writing a book. This will be the other side," Bader said. "And there will be no profit."

 

[bbrins]

His wife, a civil-rights activist, suggested at the hearing that the chief, who is black, was being discriminated against.

Why not fire him and get someone less controversial. I hope you all don't think I'm a racist, but I can't stand it when minorities play the race card whenever they don't get what they want. Sometimes it is necessary, but I seriously don't think it is warranted here.

He is pressing ahead with the book, which had been scheduled for release this fall with the start of the trials of sniper suspects John
Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.

Since "The Panel" has denied Chief Moose's request for a waiver, can't they just fire him for defying them? Afterall, they are just trying to enforce the rules evenly, if they let him profit from his book then they have to let the next person and the next person and eventually nobody is doing the job we are paying them to do.

 

[MarkDido]

I'll read Moose's book, right after I finish Hillary's.....

Dang critter, wrote this before I saw your post. Oh well, GMTA!

 

[Zander]

I hope you all don't think I'm a racist, ...

Oh, please...put your mind at ease.

Chief Moose was hired by racists because he was a racist...nothing more nor less.

The fact that he is an illiterate, inarticulate fool who intentionally hampered the investigation that made him a "star" [resulting in additional deaths of citizens he was sworn to protect] is an insignificant detail to his "superiors". It will remain insignificant because the racists who employed him refuse to hold him accountable for his malfeasance/misfeasance.

His wife's actions and excuses are beneath contempt...an embarrassment to her profession specifically and to the residents of Maryland generally.

Don't expect a fair resolution...such is impossible as long as the sociofascists in Maryland remain in control.

Marylanders...when will you rid yourselves of such "representation" and return to some semblance of freedom?

 

[sw442642]

BY most standards $170 K is a good salary. How many officers make that? How many school teachers in ghetto schools make that?

Shame on him and his wife.

 

[moa]

Chief Moose is also in the Air National Guard and is major. In fact he is on active duty with the Guard right now. Of course, he gets his Guard salary in addition to his Chief's salary.

Moose also teachs a course at a local university and I am sure he gets paid for that too.

I guess his wife works too. So, how expensive are those antiques they require anyway?

One thing that seems to be not mentioned is that none of the sniper suspects has even gone to trial. And there will probably be many trials.

Chief Moose may very well be called as a witness. I wonder if that could prejudice a trial proceeding if he has a book in print that he is profiting on?

 

[Don Gwinn]

Poor guy only makes four times what my wife and I make together. Pardon me while I find my tiny violin. . . .

 

[Futo Inu]

Hmm, what comes to my mind is, wouldn't he become exempt from the ethics rules if he were to resign his position? If so, then he's ONLY fighting to retain both his job and the extra bank from the book deal. Wants to have his cake and eat it too, in clear violation of the ethics rules. Good ruling by the committee. Quit if you don't like it. If he's STILL subject to the ethics rules, by their terms, even upon resignation, then he might arguably have a 1A claim, but not until then.

 

[voilsb]

okay ... so Chief Moose is a Chief of Police with a Ph.D, and his wife either is a Lawyer or is schooled to be a laywer.

...

...

so why do they have money troubles, again? why can't they seem to get enough income? do laywers and top-of-the-chain policemen not get paid enough, especially when you combine their incomes?

heh ... maybe they should open a gun store

edited to add: and apparently he's in the air guard and teaches at the local uni. sounds to me he's got the greedy little hands syndrome.

 

[Michael]

"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat..."

 

[Waitone]

I want someone to put together a timeline that displays when each victim was murdered on one side and what and when Chief Moose knew about the perps

If people died because of his racial prejudice and hatred then MD taxpayers need to know it.

Bigots are bigots. I could care less what their skin color is.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

If the chief's wife works so hard, why is she so ____________ ?


(politically incorrect term for very overweight deleted)


Sorry, this is the most constructive comment I could think of.

 

[moa]

My understanding of the situation is this based upon comments from Washington DC. police chief Ramsey and others.

On the evening of 10/03/03, just across the MD/DC border, a man was shot to death by the snipers. This is the same day four other people were killed by the snipers in nearby Maryland.

A be-on-the-lookout notice was issued by the DC. Metro police to look for a dark colored 1990 Chevy four door car seen leaving the shooting scene with its lights out. This was around 9:00 PM and it was dark at that hour.

Somehow or another this report, plus one or two others concerning a dark colored Chevy sedan reported by other witnesses at other shooting scenes, seemed to not gain any traction. One report by a witness even said they saw two black men in the car.

But, for whatever reason, the official search criteria was white guy/s in a white van.

Also, near a number of the shooting scenes the two snipers were stopped about a dozen times for traffic violations such as running red lights and speeding. Apparently, the sniper's tag number was run by police about 10 times. And, this is car with firing loopholes cut into the trunk with socks stuffed in them.

Go figure.

 

[answerguy]

BY most standards $170 K is a good salary. How many officers make that? How many school teachers in ghetto schools make that?

The 170 K was the value of the book deal, not his salary.

 

[rrader]

Chief Moose makes $160,000 per year:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31549

If his wife is even a minimally competent lawyer she must make at least $80,000 in the D.C. area.

That gives the Moose's a family income of $240,000. It would enable them to live in a home valued at over $600,000. That'll buy a lot, even in Montgomery County Maryland where the socialist income redistribution and land use policies of the hard-left extremist government have caused housing costs to soar an average of 20% per year for the past several years.

Poor underpriviliged fascist Mooses. Is there any place I can donate some canned food or used clothing to help out?

 

[Mr. James]

Perhaps the families of the victims, and every white painter, plumber, and contracter thrown face down on the pavement with a rifle screwed in his ear can band together and file a class action lawsuit against this _____.

I'm not alone on THR in that I live here. Dean Meyers was killed about five miles from my home and about three miles from my son's skul.

I watched this folly unfold, while they locked down my son's school, closed down the athletic fields, and these animals cavorted freely because, after all, Chief St. Moose told us these acts were the work of alienated white loners with military experience operating from a white van. As moa says, they HAD them. Multiple times. Oh, but they were only after white guys in panel trucks.

God help me, I wish him nothing but misery. I SO loathe that part of Maryland.