Former NYC cop admits to orchestrating bribes for expedited gun licenses

By Christen Smith

Former NYPD Lieutenant Paul Dean, center, exits a federal courthouse in Manhattan after being arrested and charged with two counts to conspiracy to commit bribery and one count of extortion, Manhattan, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (Photo: Newsday)
A former lieutenant with the New York Police Department admitted this week in federal court he conspired to bribe city officials into expediting gun licenses for unqualified applicants.
Paul Dean faces up to five years in prison for orchestrating a bribery scheme between at least three dealers and law enforcement officials in the city’s licensing department to fast-track applications for gun permits and overlook certain clients’ violent criminal histories.
“Paul Dean betrayed his duty as a former leader within the New York City Police Department to protect and serve the public,” said U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman in a news release Thursday. “Instead of assuring the integrity of the License Division he oversaw – a division charged with protecting the public safety by restricting access to firearms – he sought to corrupt it by bribing the very officers once under his command.”
Dean joined the NYPD in 1994 and began serving in the licensing division in 2008, according to court documents. He oversaw the division’s operation from

Source: Guns.com