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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories

Submitted by Phillip Smith on (Issue #464)
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Careful readers will have noted that there was no corrupt cops story in Drug War Chronicle last week. That's because we couldn't find any. One of our primary sources, Bad Cop News, had essentially gone silent, and my Google alerts on various drug-related words and phrases had turned up nothing. I appealed to my readers in a blog post on Friday, however, and thanks in part to their responses, we have more corrupt cops stories this week. I have revised and widened my Google alerts, but I'm still calling on readers to send me any local corrupt cops stories they come across. I may have seen them already, but maybe not. Just visit my contact page at http://stopthedrugwar.org/user/psmith and put "corrupt cops" in the subject line to send them along.

This week, it's a veritable potpourri of police misconduct with a heavy emphasis on the larcenous. Let's get to it:

In Chicago, three police officers were charged Monday in a widening probe into allegations Chicago police shook down drug suspects. Officers James McGovern, 40, Frank Villareal, 38, and Margaret Hopkins, 32, all members of the department's special operations section, are charged with official misconduct, and Villareal and Hopkins are also charged with home invasion. Four other Chicago police officers were arrested on similar charges in September. All are accused of robbing, kidnapping, and intimidating drug dealers and using their badges to gain access to homes. So far, the arrests have forced prosecutors to drop more than 100 drug cases.

In Norwalk, Iowa, an assistant fire chief is accused of stealing drugs and covering it up. Assistant Fire Chief Michael Wenger, 41, was arrested last Friday after admitting stealing opiate pain relievers used for EMS calls, including morphine, Tordal, and Fentanyl, and altering logs to hide his thievery. He is charged with fraudulent practices and two counts of possessing a controlled substance. Norwalk, which has been without a fire chief for the past year, now lacks an assistant chief, too.

In Las Vegas, New Mexico, a New Mexico Highlands University security officer has been charged with drug trafficking. Police allege they found cocaine in Officer Michelle Espinoza's purse last week. According to a university spokeswoman, Espinoza, 35, has been placed on leave pending resolution of the case.

In Scranton, Pennsylvania, a Pittston Township police officer was charged in federal court last Friday with felony drug and weapons offenses. Officer Michael Byra, 28, recently testified he had made at least 60 drug busts, but it appears he had problems leaving the evidence alone. He is charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of a firearm during a felony drug trafficking transaction and possession of a stolen firearm. The charges came after the DEA investigated missing evidence -- heroin, cocaine, marijuana, guns, $10,000 in cash, files, and a log book. Byra now faces up to life in prison.

In Ashland, Kentucky, a former state trooper pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges he stole $180,000 from police drug buy funds. Former trooper Louie Podunavac Jr., 41, was a sergeant responsible for the narcotics division in Boyd, Greenup, and Lawrence counties in eastern Kentucky until he retired in July upon being questioned by investigators hunting for missing funds. He admitted in court that he used his access to a state bank account to take money designated for drug buys and transfer it to an account in his own name. Podunavac will be sentenced March 12. He also faces six state charges of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance. Podunavac's attorney, David Mussetter, explained that Podunavac broke his ankle in 2003, got strung out on Lortab, and stole the money to buy painkillers.

Near Boston, a Malden Police officer was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on November 15 for ripping-off a drug dealer. Officer David Jordan, a 19-year veteran of the force, participated in a scheme with a local drug dealer to stop a rival dealer and steal three kilograms of cocaine valued at $81,000. Jordan's co-conspirator, Anthony Bucci, 43, of Wakefield, got 22 years the same day.

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Anonymous (not verified)

Check out the Cops Gone Bad section at http://www.doughnutgang.com

Fri, 12/08/2006 - 5:06pm Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

makes me happy to see cops taken down for all the evil that they place upstanding (and sometimes doppy) people through

Sun, 12/31/2006 - 2:27am Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

FOP Must Be Protected
At All Costs
In the State of Kentucky

11/28/06

The Ashland Witch Hunts main goal is to protect our men and women of Law Enforcement, not only in Kentucky but throughout the country. We must protect these men and women from the scoundrels that run local city governments and the corruption that they bring. Each and every day when we watch the news channels we see men and women of law enforcement being singled out and treated like criminals across this great nation that we live in. We would like to reach out to all of our great 50 states in this nation and protect the FOP but unfortunately we have to look to the state of Kentucky at this time. In my opinion, we have to name the biggest scoundrels in Ashland at this time. A new letter will be coming out in the next week or so naming these scoundrels and my opinions of why they qualify for this list. In this letter I will be making a top 10 list of corrupt bleeding heart liberals, who have shown themselves to support the criminal element in Ashland, starting with the current city government in Ashland and also department heads who are against law and order and the brotherhood of the FOP. At this time we will simply begin adding names to the list. Once it is complete however I will go into details regarding why.www.ashlandwitchunt.com

Sat, 02/24/2007 - 6:09pm Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

officer s and public crews workers susspended and fined for theft .they were supposed to be securing an abandoned property but instead they burglarized it!

Sun, 04/08/2007 - 8:59pm Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

His real name is John, but I know what your saying he is quite the liar. I was also beat by the that freak-please someone do something about this corrupted fink. I need to find a lawyer that's ready to sue the state of Oregon. I have plenty of evidence to pursue this matter-I just don't have the funds. He needs to lose his job, he is untrustworthy and is a menace to society.

Tue, 07/22/2008 - 1:49am Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

The criminal justice system is broken.

There is a total breakdown in the honor and integrity of government.

It's hard to have respect, confidence and faith in a system in which its players and supposed leaders are more corrupt than the people who have been criminally charged. Lies and false prosecutions permeate the system. The system is built on the credo of one lies and the other swears to it. No, not the defendants. The judges, lawyers and police officers are focused not on seeking truth and justice but rather the almighty conviction and case closure.

And they think they're above the law. As you do McShane

Judges are being found guilty of masturbating on the bench during murder trials. A judge who has been guilty of using his court computer to surf porn sites instead of researching the law and faced charges of sexual harassment of attorneys is not only allowed to remain on the bench until the end of his term but has actually been promoted by the chief administrative judge to review civil appeals.

There's something grossly wrong with this picture. The public perception is that Pinellas' Chief Judge David Demers, infamous for his role in the Terri Schiavo case, has rewarded Florida's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Brandt Downey by giving him a new appointment to an appeals panel after the Florida Supreme Court has sanctioned him.

The Sixth Judicial Circuit is the home of Schiavo death judge George W. Greer who assisted in covering up abuse and neglect of an innocent disabled woman, refusing to consider medical advances and instead adopting the conflicted, self-serving hearsay of Michael Schiavo as gospel. If ever there was a need for a criminal investigation of a court system, it's the Sixth Judicial Court of Pinellas County. Greer, Downey, Demers, Douglas Baird, Crockett Farnell and John Lenderman have done more to instill gross distrust in the judiciary than virtually any other jurisdiction in the country.

No, it's not judicial independence. It's full scale judicial tyranny. Don't you know who they are?

The problem is, what level of government would be trustworthy enough to conduct a fair, honest and independent investigation---certainly not the Sixth Circuit state attorney's office of Bernie McCabe or the Florida's attorney general Charlie Crist.

Prosecutors are found guilty of stealing money from the escrow and trust funds of their clients in private practice while others are found guilty of using defendants to traffic drugs. Law enforcement officers are totally ignoring constitutional rights and conducting custodial interrogations without affording a suspect the right to counsel. Judges are denying defendants their right to counsel and then jailing them in contempt when they try to represent themselves. Lawyers refuse to file the proper motions for their clients because "it'll make the judge mad".

A sheriff, motivated by a long standing vendetta against his chief nemesis actually falsifies records and files false statements with the court trying to cause a wrongful incarceration.

Prisons and jails across the United States are full of wrongfully convicted persons, innocent people convicted by a corrupt system. The courts are pillaging estates, guardianships have become a license to steal, the family court system is an absolute horror and the bankruptcy system is totally amok.

Too many people are being coerced into admitting to crimes they didn't commit because prosecutors are threatening to increase the charges if they don't plead guilty. That's extortion. That's a criminal act. If you made such a threat to a business partner or neighbor, you'd be criminally charged. So how can prosecutors and law enforcement officers do it and get away with it? Because you're letting them do it. You're too complacent.

Too many defendants are being convicted by false testimony by criminals bribed by prosecutors, promised special treatment if they will help get them the conviction they want. Court transcripts are being altered and falsified.

More rotten than the corrupt justice system is the public's apathy. Until an injustice happens to them or a member of their family, Americans are content to turn their head and shut their eyes to the corrupt and broken system. Some have been so brainwashed that they actually believe that there is no such thing as a corrupt cop. Too many police officers and sheriffs are more concerned about their arrest rate and trying to justify their multi-million budgets than they are about the truth. Most prosecutors are concerned only with their conviction rates and judges are intent on cleaning up their dockets. Defendants are processed like cattle in a stockyard, forget guilt or innocence, just close the case file, mark it solved and get a conviction.

America is heading down that slippery slope to another American Revolution, fueled this time not by oppressive taxation without representation, but by judicial tyranny and the corrupt justice system.

The Sedition Act was also a major cause of America's revolt, the law that said that citizens could be fined or imprisoned for criticizing public officials. Some 230 years later, government has imposed yet another Sedition Act, albeit this one is unwritten and it's trying to silence such whistleblowers as Ohio's Elsebeth Baumgartner, Elsebeth Baumgartner, disbarred New York attorney Israel Weinstock and others who dare to speak out against the system that they know so well but who abandoned them and disbarred them because they have a conscience. Individuals who blow the whistle on government wrongdoing and corruption are banished to the gulags of the county jails, charged with contempt or targeted with false contrived charges that the police, prosecutors and judge all rubber stamp in order to get the person "out of their hair" and to stop them from having access to the public, rallying others in their discontent with the system to band together to do something to effect the needed reforms.

Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine and published in 1776. It advocated complete independence of Britain and followed the natural rights philosophy of John Locke, justifying independence as the will of the people and revolution as a device for happiness. From Common Sense, sprang the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine's Common Sense traced the origin of government to a human desire to restrain lawlessness. Such exists today in the 21st Century. Government can be diverted to corrupt purposes by the people who created it and such has happened.

It's hard to single out any one event that led to the American Revolution. Americans believed they were entitled to the full democratic rights of the English while Britain thought that the American colonies were just colonies to be used and exploited in whatever way best suited Great Britain---somewhat like how judges, prosecutors and the police are acting today towards the populace. With that mindset in 1775, war was inevitable, just as it is today with judicial tyranny increasing virtually unchecked. The runaway judiciary is causing a tremendous unrest in this country.

"Don't you know you I am", a Batavia town justice repeatedly asked a defendant who had received a traffic ticket, an equipment failure for having no windshield. This individual claimed to be an impartial town justice instead engaged in an egregious abuse of judicial power. How can the public have respect for the judiciary when the people wearing the black robes believe they are above the law and act as total tyrants, in this case suspending the man's driver's license for over three years totally in the absence of authority to do so and then threatening to jail him and assess "thousands of dollars" in bail" in order for the man to retain his liberty?

In the high profile murder trial of Christopher Porco, on trial for the ax murder of his father and attempted murder of his mother, trial judge Jeffrey Berry has excluded from evidence a videotape of 6 ½ hour custodial interrogation by the Bethlehem Police Department. Peter Porco, 52, was the principal clerk to Presiding Justice Anthony V. Cardona of the Appellate Division, 3rd Department and the defense maintains that police were so convinced that their son had committed the ax assaults that they botched the investigation and considered no other suspects. The police kept Christopher Porco from conferring with legal counsel even though a family friend and attorney sat in the waiting room, asking to confer with him and give him legal advice. The police failed to read Porco his Miranda rights and later claimed they could do so because it was an interview, not an interrogation. What good are the constitutionally guaranteed rights of remaining silent and conferring with an attorney if the police trample those rights?

The nation was virtually stunned with the two week trial in Creek County, Oklahoma of former district court judge Donald Thompson, ultimately convicted of four felony counts of indecent exposure for using a p***s pump to engage in masturbation while presiding over murder trials. And now, his attorney has come under scrutiny for his phone call to a witness the night before she was scheduled to testify. Great fodder for the tabloids, disgraceful in a court of law.

A former Bronx prosecutor, Joseph Milano, unbelievably totally escaped jail time, receiving only five years of probation after being caught stealing over $80,000 he held in a trust for a client. This individual represented the People of the State of New York while he pillaged and violated the public trust. The injustice was even further exacerbated by allowing this individual to escape jail time for felony grand larceny. It's doubtful that he allowed many of the defendants that he prosecuted for second degree grand larceny to walk with probation. That's abhorrent by itself.

Some would argue that the system works when people like Alan Newton are released from prison. Not so. The unjust rape conviction of Newton denied everyone justice in the case. Newton spent more than 20 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape before being cleared by DNA evidence. He says his wrongful conviction denied justice to not only him but to the rape victim because his innocence "opens up old wounds and denies her closure". He unjustly lost 20 years of his life that he can never recover for a crime he didn't commit. Such an unjust act by the system leaves tremendous emotional scars.

When he first filed a motion in 1994 asked that new DNA testing be conducted, police said the evidence was unavailable. A second request in 1998 failed and then again last year, the Innocence Project asked the Bronx district attorney's office (hopefully Milano wasn't involved in this case) to have the property clerk division of the New York Police Department search for the rape kit at an evidence warehouse.

The police and prosecutors had earlier claimed that the rape kit had been lost or destroyed but the kit was found and tested for DNA by two separate labs with the results indicating that Newton was "conclusively excluded" as the assailant, giving indication that the police and prosecutors had been lying for 20 years in order to first obtain a conviction and then protect the wrongful outcome. Meanwhile, the real criminal avoided penalty, maybe even victimizing more individuals.

Law and order? The system has become so corrupt and so stacked against defendants that only a very few dare risk a trial and police and prosecutors insure that by threatening that if the defendants dares to assert his right and go to trial, if he loses, that the sentence will be more severe. The Constitution guarantees that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Not so in America, and in particular, New York State. The accused are guilty the second they are charged and the system works not to determine innocence or guilt but to secure convictions and process the guilty. Only the naïve believe that there is truth and justice for all in America's court system. Instead, for the majority, it has become a ticket to h**l.

In developing nations, corruption is one of the largest problems, nations where there is no democracy, no Republic. Generally speaking, corruption exists in all countries, but is most prevalent in poor countries with weak governments. Justice is also attainable for the haves rather than the have nots. Defendants who have the money can buy the proper legal representation, they can pay the demanded bribes to make the charges go away.

The tentacles of corruption reach all the way into the White House and State houses across the nation. A federal jury found former White House aide David Safavian guilty of lying and obstructing justice, so far the highest-ranking government official convicted in the growing scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

President Bush is engaged in surveillance and eavesdropping of citizens and reporters. The checks and balances are being ignored or maybe it's just because the corruption is so rampant it can't be reined in.

The system is undeniably broken at all levels from the police station to the court and all stops in between. The fix lies in the hands of the people. The apathy must stop. As with the American Revolution, the fix is at the grassroots level of America. Don't say it doesn't affect you, that this is not your fight. If you continue to let complacency rule, you could well become one of the system's casualties. Maybe when the system tolls enough casualties, then the apathy will become people power.

As long as the public remains docile and inactive, the corruption will grow, just like an untreated cancer.

It is your fight and if you don't get involved, what our forefathers fought for in 1776 will have been diminished to irrelevancy.

Judge Michael McShane-----
Officer Bacigalupi #30878
Officer Sery #36878
all officers that worked or partnered with Bacigalupi #30878
Officer John Hughes #45063
So many more

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 7:56am Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

Judge Michael McShane of Portland Ore.
Judge McShane you are a complete blockhead and should step down from the bench. Did you know you punished an honest law abiding defendant that is not guilty of all charges? I overheard her ask you if she could take a polygraph to show you that she was telling you the truth and was not guilty of the imputations. Instead you have her receive an evaluation for mental health. What is wrong with you? You are an unscrupulous man.

All Portland Police Officers should have to take a polygraph if they are issuing criminal charges on account of the few corrupt officers that are power hungry freaks.

By the way, Judge McShane, she was assessed for all your bullshit the mental heath, the anger management and your alcohol package. Which she was told there is nothing wrong with her, in addition she will not have to partake in any of your sanctions, except the 60hrs community service and the $1200,00 in fines and supervision you granted her to be due. Maybe your unethical ass should get the evaluations. I wager $50 that you would have to participate in at least one of the counsels you had her endure. You unprincipled monster you are the actual miscreant.

How could McShane become a judge with only law knowledge or book smarts and obviously no common sense. Judge Mcshane is closed minded or unaware that some litigants are indeed innocent? His favoritism towards the state is obvious, he believes every defendant is guilty.

Michael McShane's mannerism towards the accused defendant was appalling, McShane exhibits no respect as if she was a harden criminal and was guilty. Take note she was never in trouble not once previously to this .
(THIS IS FOR THE JURY *She insulted the officer she did not assault him* A word for the unintelligent jury in the case State vs Miss ---- ------; Furthermore, I was an eyewitness to. Now read this closely--If you kick or strike someone with your foot, they will get a roundish bruise, a round indentation something that resembles a shoe, not a scratch that he indeed inflicted on himself when trying to open his patrol car to shove her in the back of, which I watched him do at 7-11) So you dimwits convicted an innocent girl and let Officer John Hughes get away with battery. The First Amendment she is guilty of, and you people are allowing it to be taken away from all of us.

Judge McShane has more in common with the criminals than with normal citizens. The sentences he sets forth go above the guideline of the crime accused. I watched him roar at the defendant and accused her of being guilty of all counts even though the jury found her not guilty,, except for the charge of attempted assault of a police officer, when in fact, she was innocent of all counts-I know for datum, she was innocent. ONE MORE THING-How do you attempt to assault? You either do or you don't, I know for a fact she didn't assault the officer, because that is not her nature.

Judge McShane is just another corrupt judge that says, and I quote, "he doesn’t have a big ego", but that’s the furthest from the truth. How many innocent people have you convicted Mc Shane? Mc Shane you are a narcissism egotistic man, I hope after 2009 you hang the robe up, and punish your family not the honest law abiding citizens of Oregon. We have had plenty of you for far too long.

The only reason no one appeals against your judgements is because you are the appeal Judge. I would hate to see you if someone was to appeal against your judgement-You'd send them straight to jail and to Death Row if you could, wouldn't you? McShane you are so inappropriate for Oregon!

The Truth the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

Fri, 09/19/2008 - 1:57am Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

People on Khryastyl sometimes name their kids that, or Krysteal or Chrystl or Christeal or whatever to honor what a great thing meth is in their life. Then they use your credit card to rent a cheap motel room and "buy" PCs and printers to make checks and IDs. Then they write tweaker notes on everything, like a spiral notebook or an on line blog like this. Sometimes they get really fucked up and type those really long comments, kinds like the ones above!

Great forum here. I hope you all are typing this from your liberal approved, uncrowded cell at the Multnomah County Jail.

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 2:12am Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

DO ONLY PEOPLE ON KHRYASTYL USE OR STEAL CREDIT CARDS AND THE REST OF YOUR GARB YOU HAVE THEM DOING IN THE CHEAP MOTEL ROOM? NOOOOOOO I THINK NOT FOOL .A THIEF IS A THIEF ON THIS METH OR BOOZE OR JUST HIGH ON LIFE. THIEVES DO NOT HAVE TO GET HIGH- STEALING OTHER PEOPLES THINGS IS THEIR ALL-TIME HIGH. THE METH IS JUST A BONUS-OR WHAT EVER THEIR DRUG OF CHOICE MAY BE…DUMMY

IF I WAS A Thief AND HAD YOUR CREDIT CARD, I would not STAY IN A MOTEL--BUT FOR SURE THE BEST HOTEL SUITE I COULD FIND. THEY WOULD NEED A *PENTHOUSE SUITE OR *PRESIDENTIAL SUITE… NOW STAYING IN THE VIP SUITE----THEY PROVIDE SLIPPERS FOR YOUR FEET-ALSO A ROBE THEY ARE BOTH YOURS TO KEEP YOU, OR I MEAN MINE (I AM PLAYING THAT I AM A CREDIT CARD THIEF). I AM NOT OCCUPYING THE *REGULAR HOTEL ROOM WHERE THEY PROVIDE A ROBE-BUT WHEN IT IS TIME TO LEAVE OR CHECKOUT TIME YOU DO NOT GET TO KEEP THE ROBE, BUT YOU DO HAVE THE OPTION TO BUY. IF I HAD A STOLEN CREDIT CARD-I WOULD NOT EVEN PEEK INTO THE YOU CAN BUY ROBE *REGULAR HOTEL ROOM.

I SEE YOU KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT THE AMPHETAMINE PEOPLE DO IN THEIR SPARE TIME. THEREFORE HOW IS THE SPELLING GOING ON YOUR NEW SPIRAL NOTE PAD?

Mr. P. Malarkey

Thu, 01/01/2009 - 2:40pm Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

North Portland Police- They file false Police reports and thrash on you, they also deceive and claim you where resisting arrest, when you complied completely. It is so unfair. Their lies believed, over the complete truth. I wanted to take a polygraph and have the Police officer also take a polygraph, but the state rather convict innocent people than see their cops are corrupt. Therefore, the Judges are corrupt also. I am a law-abiding citizen, never arrested before; this conviction was and is unjust. Now I have a misdemeanor on my record. If convicted on every false charge, he said I did. I would now be a felon, which he tried hard to convict me of his lies. The Good Lord above and I know I am innocent of the charge convicted of, and I do not understand how this happens.

Thanks North Portland Police, I used to trust and respect the Police. Now I get happy if an Officer gets hurts, "well that's karma, they probably was a lying rogue cop I say to myself" Before my encounter with this immoral so-called Peace Officer, I used to think, "Oh no why would this happen. Now what is their poor family going to do"? That thought no longer enters my mind anymore, and that is sad. For a few bad cops, I now no longer trust any.

Known Corrupted Cops
Officer Bacigalupi #30878
Officer Sery #36878
All officers that worked or collaborated with Bacigalupi #30878.
Officer John Hughes #45063
However, I would bet there are so many more.

Mon, 12/22/2008 - 3:50pm Permalink
Anonymous (not verified)

Please send us a FBI agent, to the North Portland Police precinct Multnomah Oregon to play a rooky cop guy or something and put these lying Police in jail, they need to actually be sent to prison for their corruption and none stop lies. They file false reports and then an innocent person has to fight these immoral men in the court house, which is a bunch of shit-The Judges are almost as corrupt as these liars we call the Peace Officer.

Start with the Officers above and weed out all the rest, there is way more than the ones posted above.

Honest Abe.

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Thu, 04/09/2009 - 7:16am Permalink
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Fri, 06/05/2009 - 7:49am Permalink
TIMOTHY LEWIS … (not verified)

Why are local police departments hiring private military contractors to intmidate, harass, and coerce citizens who file police officer misconduct complaints in an attempte to block their federal civil rights lawsuits?

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 8:39pm Permalink
Anonymous5555 (not verified)

The new epidemic seems to be these swat teams unloading there m-4's into harmless pets when raiding homes. often infront of children. most cases they didnt find more then 20 bucks in marijuana. these police can do what ever they want with minimal consequence. if you ever have any bad experiences with police i recomend going to policeabuse.com and filing a complaint. most of our rights have been suspended by way of the patriot act. all i know is that if the police come into my home and shoot my dog, it would be in their best interest to shoot me as well.

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 7:19pm Permalink

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