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...that a government conspiracy--and not Ray--plotted the murder of the great civil rights leader. Its report, due out in a few weeks, concludes that the Kings' allegations are not "credible" and provide no basis for new criminal charges. In other words, they are hogwash. Considering that these lurid fantasies sprang from the fertile imagination of Ray's former lawyer William Pepper, the conclusion is no surprise...
...upshot has been the biggest police scandal in Los Angeles history. At the center is the Rampart division--a police station in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods--and its special antigang unit. In the six months since Perez started talking, lurid revelations about law enforcement Rampart-style have emerged almost daily: allegations that cops raped a woman while on duty; accusations that a cop interrogating a handcuffed man beat him until he vomited blood; a fast-growing list of prisoners who were allegedly railroaded with fabricated evidence and police lies...
...section of his site reveals that his painful experiences have made him cagey, even in the face of this story. On his new website he admits, "As I write these words, I am somewhat nervous about this article--I don't know how big it will be, or what lurid claims it will make...
Wearing black leather and high-heeled boots, Angelina Jolie walks across her Beverly Hills hotel room toward me, holding a serrated knife in her hand. The alluring co-star of Girl, Interrupted has a lurid fascination with sharp metal objects--exotic daggers, tattoo needles, the works. She has even confessed to cutting her own skin in the past. But tonight she's in a more benign mood, so Jolie slinks past me and proceeds to carve up a steak delivered from room service...
...good reason to be worried. For the past few weeks, day after day, Russian state television has been accusing Luzhkov of a lurid array of crimes--from involvement in the murder of an American businessman to a connection with a Japanese cult, and, of course, massive venality. His chief of police has been fired, and reports are circulating that some of his top deputies will soon be indicted for corruption...