"Moose Resigns as Montgomery Police Chief"

From the WaPo:

Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose has resigned in order to free himself from the ethical concerns surrounding his plans to write a personal account of last fall's sniper manhunt... Moose, who became a national hero [huh? --lw] as the sturdy face of the sniper task force...

The county Ethics Commission had ruled in March that Moose should halt work on the book project, but on Friday his publisher, E.P. Dutton, listed the book for sale on the Amazon.com Web site. [The book is
Three Weeks in October]

See also Michelle Malkin's "Charles 'show me the money' Moose":

Instead of following the law, he and his big-mouthed wife, an image consultant and CEO of Chief Moose Inc., have hurled reckless charges of racism at county employees. Mrs. Moose whined to the panel that the couple resented having to answer to "a fully white group to give him permission to make some money." She likened her spouse to Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela as a civil-rights trailblazer who "stood for principle."

His wife has targeted not just county employees, but Marriot Hotels as well: "Marriott paid Moose big bucks after racism charge?":

"Hotel security asked to see his key, as is standard practice, and his reply was, 'Don't you know who I am? I'm Chief Moose!'" he said.

The last article has several links to other Moose stories.

Click the "Sniper" link directly below for my contemporaneous coverage of the Beltway Sniper case.

Sniper · Wed, 06/18/2003 - 09:04 · · Importance: 1