Ex-Officers Sentenced for Misleading FBI
From Times Wire Reports
Two former police officers were put on probation for misleading FBI investigators about the torture of a prisoner in 1997.
Francisco Rosario, 36, and Rolando Aleman, 30, were among six officers to either be convicted or plead guilty in the attack on Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was dragged into a Brooklyn precinct bathroom and sodomized with a broken broomstick.
Rosario was sentenced to three years’ probation by U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson. Rolando Aleman, 30, was given two years’ probation.
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