London Police Officer Sentenced to Life for Rape and Sexual Abuse
We wrote about this person recently, wondering how Officer Carrick thought he’d finesse serially raping 12 women over a 17 year period, all the time while wearing a police uniform. Seriously, how does one even do that, keep such an intense pre-occupation with controlling and abusing people going, and still maintain some semblance of doing their job? I guess the point is that he and all of us now have plenty of time to contemplate that and other questions.
Certainly the words “What Goes Around Comes Around,” or “The Law of Cause and Effect” or the word “Karma,” all of which mean the same thing, get in their licks from this case. They speak to the basic law of nature and every branch of science, including all human experience. One cannot go to the dark side and do such harm as this person did, without eventually facing the music in precisely the right measure. For him that is the rest of his life in prison.
Still questions abound. How did he get away with it for so long and with so many, before getting caught and his evil derailed? The answer goes to the perpetrator’s skill, intelligence, charm, ability to lie persuasively, lack of empathy and more such factors, enjoined with the benefit of the doubt someone’s position lends to shielding them from discovery. One would have to conclude that this guy’s skills were finely honed. How that came to be we may never know, as is the case with all abusers.
What we do know, however, is that there is a Law of Cause & Effect that does operate in the human realm and will return to each person exactly the result they deserve. It should also be noted that the “Law” is just as true on the other side of the equation. Do good things for others and the world in general and there will be a response in exactly the correct measure. It is why some people die happy and loved and others are awarded a Nobel Prize, etc.
London Police Officer Sentenced to Life for Rape and Sexual Abuse
David Carrick had pleaded guilty to 49 crimes against 12 women in the latest case to cast a harsh spotlight on the Metropolitan Police.
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London Police Officer Sentenced to Life for Rape and Sexual Abuse
LONDON — A London police officer was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for violence against 12 women over a 17-year period, a series of attacks in which a judge said he took “monstrous advantage” of his victims as he abused his power as a police officer.
The case of the officer, David Carrick, is the latest in a series of harrowing episodes of violence against women that have led to calls for serious change at the Metropolitan Police, the force that covers London. The service has been accused of allowing a culture of misogyny to thrive and of failing to address violence against women and girls by members of its ranks.
In one of the most disturbing episodes, in 2021, a serving London police officer, Wayne Couzens, was sentenced to life in prison for the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a case that prompted national soul-searching and ignited calls for reforms.
Mr. Carrick, 48, was sentenced in Southwark Criminal Court in London on Tuesday afternoon after a two-day hearing. Before handing down the sentence, Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb described how Mr. Carrick “took monstrous advantage of women” he was in a relationship with and “brazenly raped them.”
Mr. Carrick was sentenced to life and must serve a minimum of 30 years and 239 days in prison.
“You behaved as if you were untouchable,” the judge told Mr. Carrick, adding that he had carried out a series of attacks that began almost immediately after he became a police officer, and she noted that he had referred to his job repeatedly while assaulting his victims.
Mr. Carrick pleaded guilty last month to 49 charges of crimes against 12 women from 2003 to 2020, including 24 counts of rape, numerous charges of sexual assault, controlling and coercive behavior, and false imprisonment.
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London Police Officer Sentenced to Life for Rape and Sexual Abuse
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Colombo Family Crime Boss and 12 Others Are Arrested, Prosecutors Say
An indictment unsealed on Tuesday accuses the organization of orchestrating a two-decade scheme to extort a labor union.
For two decades, the leadership of the Colombo crime family extorted a Queens labor union, federal prosecutors said — an effort that continued unabated even as members of the mob clan cycled through prison, the family’s notorious longtime boss died, and as federal law enforcement closed in.
Over time, what began as a Colombo captain’s shakedown of a union leader, complete with expletive-laced threats of violence, expanded into a cottage industry, prosecutors said, as the Colombo organization assumed control of contracting and union business, with side operations in phony construction certificates, marijuana trafficking and loan-sharking.
On Tuesday, 11 reputed members and associates of the Colombo crime family, including the mob clan’s entire leadership, were charged in a labor racketeering case brought by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.
All but two of the men were arrested Tuesday morning across New York and New Jersey, prosecutors said. Another was surrendered to the authorities on Tuesday; another defendant, identified as the family consigliere, remained at large, prosecutors said.
The indictment accuses the Colombo family of orchestrating a two-decade scheme to extort an unnamed labor union that represented construction workers, using threats of violence to secure payments and arrange contracts that would benefit the crime family.
The charges are an ambitious effort by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take down one of the city’s five Mafia families. In addition to the union extortion scheme, which is the heart of the racketeering charge, the indictment charges several misdeeds often associated with the mob, including drug trafficking, money laundering, loan-sharking and falsifying federal labor safety paperwork.
Detention hearings for the defendants in Brooklyn federal court continued into the evening Tuesday, as they entered not-guilty pleas to the charges; prosecutors had asked the court to keep 10 of the defendants in custody.
“Everything we allege in this investigation proves history does indeed repeat itself,” Michael J. Driscoll, F.B.I. assistant director-in-charge, said in a statement. “The underbelly of the crime families in New York City is alive and well.”
Around 2001, prosecutors said, Vincent Ricciardo — a reported captain in the family, also known as “Vinny Unions” — began to demand a portion of a senior labor union official’s salary. When Mr. Ricciardo was convicted and imprisoned on federal racketeering charges in the mid-2000s, prosecutors said, his cousin continued to collect those payments.
Starting in late 2019, prosecutors said, the senior leadership of the Colombo family became directly involved in the shakedown, which extended to broader efforts to siphon money from the union: for example, manipulating the selection of union health fund vendors to contract with entities connected to the family, and diverting more than $10,000 each month from the fund to the family.
Andrew Russo, 87, who prosecutors describe as the family boss, is accused of taking part in those efforts, as well as a money-laundering scheme to send the proceeds of the union extortion through intermediaries to Colombo associates. He was among nine defendants charged with racketeering.
Mr. Russo appeared in court virtually from the hospital Tuesday; he is set to be detained upon his release, pending a future bail hearing.
The family’s infamous longtime boss, Carmine J. Persico, died in federal custody in North Carolina in March 2019.
Federal law enforcement learned of the extortion scheme about a year ago, prosecutors wrote in a court filing Tuesday; investigators gathered thousands of hours of wiretapped calls and conversations recorded by a confidential witness, wrote the prosecutors, who also described law-enforcement surveillance of meetings among the accused conspirators.
The authorities said they repeatedly captured Mr. Ricciardo and his associates threatening to kill the union official. “I’ll put him in the ground right in front of his wife and kids,” Mr. Ricciardo was recorded saying in June.
On another occasion cited by prosecutors in the memo seeking his detention, Mr. Ricciardo directed the union official to hire a consultant selected by the Colombo family, saying: “It’s my union and that’s it.” Prosecutors said his activities were overseen by a Colombo soldier and the consigliere who remains at large.
Much of the activity outlined in the indictment took place while the defendants were either in prison or on supervised release for prior federal mob-related convictions. Theodore Persico Jr., described as a family captain and soldier, was released from federal prison in 2020 and, despite a directive not to associate with members of organized crime, “directed much of the labor racketeering scheme,” prosecutors said.
Mr. Persico, 58, is set to inherit the role of boss after Mr. Russo, prosecutors wrote.
Several of the defendants were named in what prosecutors described as a fraudulent safety training scheme, in which they falsified state and federal paperwork that is required for construction workers to show they have completed safety training courses.
One of the defendants, John Ragano — whom prosecutors say is a soldier in the Bonanno crime family — is accused of setting up phony occupational safety training schools in New York, which prosecutors said were “mills” that provided fraudulent safety training certificates to hundreds of people.
In October 2020, prosecutors said, an undercover law enforcement officer visited one of the schools in Ozone Park, Queens, and received, from Mr. Ricciardo’s cousin, a blank test form and an answer sheet; weeks later, the agent returned to pick up his federal safety card and paid $500.
The purported schools were also used for meetings with members of La Cosa Nostra — the group of crime families commonly known as the Mafia — and to store illegal drugs and fireworks, according to the indictment.
Mr. Ragano wasn’t charged on the racketeering count, although prosecutors also sought his detention pending trial. In addition to the racketeering count, several defendants, including Mr. Ricciardo and his cousin, were charged with extortion, conspiracy, fraud and conspiracy to make false statements.
William K. Rashbaum contributed reporting.
Correction:
An earlier version of this article misstated the number of people identified in an indictment as members of the Colombo crime family. It is 11, not more than a dozen.