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

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.

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

Sorry, I'm fresh out of crying towels.