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...partners have also bent the law. They have supplied confiscated drugs in return for help from junkie informers. Some of the money they have found on arrested dealers has ended up in their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that of New York Detective Robert Leuci a decade ago-knows much, much more, mostly about who in law enforcement is on the take. By his own code, Ciello sees himself as honorable: he has never taken a bribe to let a criminal go free or betrayed his detective partners. But his sins of commission and omission...
...Ciello-Leuci is a man who feels fully alive only when he is at high risk-when, say, wired for sound he collects evidence from Mafiosi about cops they have suborned. But this movie is a moral, not a criminal, investigation. The people he works for have cases to break, headlines to make, careers at stake. They need to squeeze every drop of usefulness out of him; he needs to defend his honor by refusing to rat on his friends. By the end he has gently been led to the most terrible betrayals of self, friends and family who must...
...this movie's strengths is that it passes no judgment on the relative merits of Leuci's code and the more impersonal workings of the criminal code. Nor does it speculate on motives. It merely presents the behavior of people under pressure and causes the viewer to wonder whether anyone would have done better in similar circumstances...
DERSHOWITZ: I repeatedly called Mr. Sagor. I repeatedly asked him, "What do you have? What have you turned up? Do you have anything about Leuci's crimes...
...presiding over a hearing on a motion by Edmund A. Rosner that Rosner be granted a new trial on charges that he bribed a policeman to obtain secret grand jury testimony. Rosner was convicted on those charges in December 1972, primarily on the basis of testimony of Det.Robert S. Leuci. Leuci has since admitted that he perjured himself during the first Rosner trial by failing to answer truthfully about his own history of criminal involvement. Dershowitz, who is serving as Rosner's counsel, charged that the U.S. attorney had documents which proved Leuci's perjury at the time the Supreme...