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September 16th, 2003 at 3:20 pm

$200 K for Moose carding?

Gregg Easterbrook’s new and already indispensable weblog for the New Republic has some harsh words (Sept. 15) for former Montgomery County, Maryland police chief Charles Moose, of sniper-investigation fame. In an episode that has received little press attention, Moose extracted something on the order of $200,000 from the Marriott hotel chain after threatening a race-bias lawsuit over an incident last December in which a guard demanded to see his room key at an exclusive beach in Hawaii (”Top cop in sniper case settles isle bias lawsuit”, AP/Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Aug. 8).

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