CINCINNATI (AP) - A Cincinnati police officer has been accused by federal authorities of confirming the identity of an undercover officer to a nightclub owner under investigation for money laundering.
Quiana Campbell, 39, was charged Thursday with giving a false statement to investigators about whether she had confirmed the undercover officer’s identity and for filing false tax returns in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The charges were in an indictment that accuses Campbell of failing to report $60,000 in income from working off-duty details during those three years.
A message seeking comment was left Friday with Campbell’s attorney. She was initially taken into custody Feb. 14 and was then released on her own recognizance.
An IRS agent wrote in a criminal complaint that his agency and Cincinnati police were investigating money laundering operations at nightclubs when investigators learned that people associated with the clubs were being “tipped off and possibly protected” by Cincinnati police officers.
Campbell in January 2015 texted the owner of a Cincinnati nightclub to confirm the identity of the female undercover officer, and then denied doing so, telling investigators she would not put another officer in danger, the IRS agent wrote.
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