{"id":62646,"date":"2023-04-19T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/detroit-police-lieutenant-sentenced-to-2-1-2-years-for-accepting-bribes-62646"},"modified":"2023-04-19T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:50:09","slug":"detroit-police-lieutenant-sentenced-to-2-1-2-years-for-accepting-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/detroit-police-lieutenant-sentenced-to-2-1-2-years-for-accepting-bribes-62646","title":{"rendered":"Detroit police lieutenant sentenced to 2 1\/2 years for accepting bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A former lieutenant in charge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/detroit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Police Department\u2019s Integrity Unit<\/a> was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Tuesday for accepting bribes in a conspiracy with another officer, prosecutors announced.<\/p>\n<p>John F. Kennedy, 57, of Rochester Hills, worked within the department\u2019s Internal Affairs Division and was responsible for investigating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports of crimes<\/a> and professional misconduct by police and other city employees, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison said.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy conspired with fellow Officer Daniel S. Vickers to commit bribery by accepting nearly $15,000 in exchange for using his influence to persuade other officers to make tow referrals to a company, Ison said. Kennedy pleaded guilty under an agreement with prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/detroit-shooting-leaves-4-injured-including-three-14-year-olds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DETROIT SHOOTING LEAVES 4 INJURED, INCLUDING THREE 14-YEAR-OLDS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evidence in the case included secretly recorded phone conversations in which referrals were steered to a company that was not on the department\u2019s rotation list.<\/p>\n<p>Such work can be lucrative: Towing companies can charge storage fees until a car is claimed and even sell a vehicle at auction after a certain period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/man-killed-by-pit-bulls-inside-detroit-building-reportedly-trying-to-help-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>MAN KILLED BY PIT BULLS INSIDE DETROIT BUILDING REPORTEDLY TRYING TO HELP THEM<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vickers, 54, accepted more than $3,400 in payments from a towing company in 2018, authorities said. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced last month to two years and three months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Six people have been charged as part of the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/finance\/investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government&#8217;s investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>City Councilman Andre Spivey pleaded guilty in 2021 to accepting $36,000 in bribes related to oversight of towing policy. Spivey resigned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/detroit-police-lieutenant-sentenced-2-1\/2-year-accepting-bribes\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/detroit-police-lieutenant-sentenced-2-1\/2-year-accepting-bribes <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former lieutenant in charge of the Detroit Police Department\u2019s Integrity Unit was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Tuesday for accepting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-62646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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