Naked City
More bad blood
By Jordan Smith, Fri., May 27, 2005
White filed suit against the city in 2002, alleging that former Assistant Chief Jimmy Chapman had him transferred, and then blocked his bid for another assignment, in retaliation for statements White made about Chapman's possible involvement in derailing the mid-Nineties drug trafficking investigation code-named Mala Sangre, or Bad Blood. Chapman retired at the end of 2003, as an outside investigation into whether he committed perjury during a deposition taken in connection with White's suit came to a close. Details of the investigation have not been made public, but the official disposition was that evidence of Chapman's veracity was "inconclusive."
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