The attorney for a fired Pittsburgh police officer under indictment for perjury said the FBI has evidence that could prove his client told the truth when he testified about responding to a violent domestic dispute at the home of Chief Robert W. McNeilly Jr...Lawyer: FBI has proof on McNeilly fight
By David Conti
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
March 5, 2003
[Excerpts] The attorney for a fired Pittsburgh police officer under indictment for perjury said the FBI has evidence that could prove his client told the truth when he testified about responding to a violent domestic dispute at the home of Chief Robert W. McNeilly Jr. An unnamed witness told federal investigators after the FBI arrested Edmond N. Gaudelli Jr. that the city 911 received a call on Sept. 26, 1996, to report a fight between McNeilly and his wife, according to court papers filed in federal court on Tuesday... According to an FBI report -- which Mariani claims to have a copy of -- the record of the call was changed to reflect that it was for a burglary report... Another witness has told the FBI that 911 received a domestic dispute call at McNeilly's home sometime between 1992 and 1999, Mariani said... In January, Gaudelli was indicted and arrested by the FBI on charges he lied under oath about responding to the chief's home. In the court motion filed yesterday, Mariani asks for access to city 911 records, Gaudelli's personnel files, police records and reports from the FBI investigation of his client... [Full article here]
Unnamed witnesses cited
ReplyDeletePittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
March 5, 2003
A lawyer for a former Pittsburgh police officer charged with perjury says he has witnesses to back up his client's claim that he responded to a domestic violence call in 1996 at the home of Chief Robert McNeilly Jr.
Anthony Mariani, who represents ex-officer Edmond N. Gaudelli Jr., said in a motion filed in U.S. District Court that two witnesses told the FBI about the call.
One witness was vague about the date, but Mariani said another told the FBI that a call for a domestic came in to the city's 911 center on or about Sept. 28, 1996, and was later changed to a burglary call. The witnesses are not identified.
The motion, part of a larger filing in Gaudelli's case, asked that the city turn over any records of calls at McNeilly's house between 1993 and 1999.
Gaudelli, of Banksville, was indicted by a federal grand jury in January on a charge of lying under oath while being deposed in connection with a federal lawsuit he filed against the city in 1999.
According to the indictment, he gave false testimony that he responded to a domestic call at McNeilly's house on Sept. 28, 1996. Gaudelli claimed that a supervisor arrived on the scene and, after talking to McNeilly, ordered him not to put the call on his log. McNeilly has denied the claim and turned over receipts indicating he and his wife were on vacation in Florida at the time.
Gaudelli, who was fired in 2000, had sued McNeilly, Mayor Tom Murphy and several other city officials, claiming that he was a victim of retaliation for filing grievances and opposing McNeilly's appointment as chief.
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