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Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955 – December 9, 1981) was the youngest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, a trolley car driver, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him.
Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.He has a younger brother named William. They attended local public schools. In 1968, a high school teacher, a Kenyan man instructing a class on African cultures, encouraged the students to take African or Arabic names for classroom use; he gave Cook the name "Mumia". [10]
The "Dirty 30" were mostly stationed at the 30th Precinct in Harlem, Upper Manhattan. At the time, the area was known as the “cocaine capital of the world” to locals and law enforcement. [3] Police corruption was extremely high around this time, and the Mollen Commission was created to help investigate and eradicate corruption within the NYPD.
Shannon's co-conspirators, 30-year-old Desiray Carter and 28-year-old Donell Gardner, were both sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for their roles in the scheme, according to the release.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the defense experts' findings. The U.S. Attorney's Office that handled the case declined to comment.
Raymond Carter achieved notoriety for being the subject of a murder case that arose in the aftermath of the corruption scandal, resulting in his release from prison on December 30, 1996. [3] Key figures in his conviction (and release) were PPD officer Thomas Ryan and Pamela Jenkins, who also played roles in the more famous trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The scandal has already landed one of Ohio's most powerful politicians in federal prison. Prosecutors indicted former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones, 69, and ex-Senior Vice President of External ...
Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955–December 9, 1981) was a police officer in the U.S. city of Philadelphia who was shot and killed in the line of duty. The first removal was made with edit summary "less POV", and reverted by me with summary "This is not POV, it's simple fact.