By Laurel Sweet
The Boston Herald
A Revere police officer the FBI claims was caught on camera in uniform taking a $200 bribe to throw a criminal case may be working on a plea deal with federal prosecutors, newly filed court documents suggest.
‘The parties are actively negotiating a potential resolution to the charge and this resolution would obviate the need for a probable cause hearing or an indictment,’ assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Fisher said in a motion filed last week with U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Jennifer C. Boal, asking that a hearing on Todd Randall’s case be continued to May 18.
Randall’s attorney, Timothy Flaherty, did not respond yesterday to requests for comment.
Randall, 40, who is on unpaid administrative leave from the Revere Police Department and facing up to five years in prison if convicted, has been free on a $10,000 unsecured bond since his arrest last month on a federal charge of making a false statement to the FBI. The conditions of Randall’s release include that he receive drug and mental health counseling.
Prosecutors said Randall was in uniform and driving a marked cruiser Jan. 22, 2010, when he went to the home of a government witness in Everett and accepted $200 in exchange for his promise to help a pal of the undercover operative get rid of a case in Chelsea District Court.
When confronted by authorities in March of this year, Randall denied the allegations, saying, ‘I have no reason to lie to ya fellas,’ according to an FBI affidavit.
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