Word: rasheeda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conspiring to possess cocaine and three felony counts of lying to a federal grand jury in 1989 about drug use. If convicted on all charges, he could be jailed for 26 years. His lawyer, R. Kenneth Mundy, calls the federal sting operation that caught Barry smoking crack with Rasheeda Moore "entrapment pure and simple." It was, says Mundy, a plot devised by a Republican Federal Government frustrated by the failure of a seven-year effort to chase a flamboyant -- and virtually unbeatable -- Democrat from office. The prosecution contends that Barry was not entrapped because his long history of drug...
...sting came after repeated investigations into broader corruption among Barry associates had failed to snare the mayor. The FBI's inability to pin a charge on Barry bolstered the belief among some in Washington that Hazel Diane (Rasheeda) Moore lured the mayor to the Vista International Hotel only after authorities pressured...
According to a source close to the investigation, Barry came to the Vista to party with two women: Rasheeda Moore, a California model and acquaintance turned federal informant, and a female FBI undercover agent. While other agents baby-sat for Moore's three children, she sold Barry $60 worth of crack cocaine supplied by the Drug Enforcement Administration. As a surveillance camera videotaped the scene, Barry allegedly tried to fondle Moore and persuade her to use crack with him. Rebuffed by Moore, Barry allegedly put the crack in a pipe and smoked it. As soon as he took...
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