Informant Sues LAPD, Magazines Over Stories
A confidential informant has filed a $5-million lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department and Rolling Stone and New Yorker magazines after being named in recent articles detailing police corruption in Los Angeles.
Kevin Raymond Hackie, a former bodyguard for Death Row Records, filed a 166-page lawsuit this week, accusing the defendants of intentional invasion of privacy and conspiracy to breach a confidentiality agreement.
Hackie alleges that by leaking confidential murder files to the magazines, the Police Department has exposed him “to immediate and imminent bodily harm and/or death.”
Hackie’s lawsuit contends that the magazines never tried to contact him before publishing their articles, which included excerpts of confidential information from his police briefing about the 1997 murder of rapper Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace.
The information was provided by former Det. Russell Poole, who is named in the suit along with Police Chief Bernard Parks.
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