Barbara Laker at the Philadelphia Daily News offers a piece on the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announcement that they will review the complaints against a Philadelphia police officer that were detailed in Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman's Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series and subsequent book, Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love.
The District Attorney's Office has decided to review the cases of two women who say that narcotics officer Thomas Tolstoy fondled and groped them during drug raids.
... After investigating for five years, the U.S. Attorney's Office declined several months ago to file charges against a squad in the Narcotics Field Unit tied to multiple allegations of theft and misconduct.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140427_D_A__to_review_alleged_sex_assault_by_cop.html
You can also read an earlier post on the case via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2014/04/victims-in-pulitzer-prize-winning.html
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