The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A police internal-investigations supervisor has been charged with slipping confidential information to at least two officers who were under scrutiny, even giving one advice on how to deal with the probe, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Sgt. Henry Conde, a 13-year NYPD veteran, searched the bureau’s computers and files to tip the officers about the investigations, the Daily News reported, citing an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Conde, 34, pleaded not guilty to obstructing justice and lying to FBI agents, according to the newspaper. He was released on $250,000 bail.
No telephone number for Conde could be found in the New York metro area. Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association representatives did not immediately respond to a telephone message Saturday morning.
Conde was assigned to the Internal Affairs Bureau from 2005 until he was transferred to the Housing Bureau in April 2007. He has since been suspended, according to the Daily News.
While he was in Internal Affairs, a Brooklyn officer asked Conde to find out whether he was under suspicion, and Conde pulled up confidential computer logs to tell the officer he was being investigated for associating with a drug dealer, court documents said.
FBI agents became suspicious that the officer had been told about the investigation, did some computer searches of their own and found Conde’s electronic fingerprints, according to the documents.
He later told FBI agents he had looked up another secret file for a different officer, giving the target guidance on “how to handle IAB’s investigation of him,” the indictment said.
Conde said he had turned down similar requests from other officers, the court documents said.
An FBI spokesman did not immediately respond to a message Saturday morning.
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