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An ex-police officer from Virginia confessed to defrauding 13 people out of over $831,000 to fund his gambling habit, federal prosecutors revealed.
According to WTKR News 3 on Monday, former Eastville Police Officer Jerry Keith Brady, Jr. pleaded guilty to one count apiece of money laundering and wire fraud before Judge Lawrence R. Leonard in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Brady allegedly convinced people he knew to lend him money falsely, based on a large inheritance he claimed would repay the debt. Over 33 transactions saw money going into Brady’s account, prosecutors state, with most of it never repaid.
spent vast sums gambling at the ‘skill’ machines”
According to court reports, the former cop used most of the money on casinos and online sports betting apps and also “spent vast sums gambling at the ‘skill’ machines located in gas stations on the Eastern Shore in Virginia.”
Former Eastville Police Chief Linwood Christian said federal agents came asking about Brady last January, and that he told them a story involving a fellow co-worker whose face, after admitting to Christian he loaned $9,000 to the shady cop, “turned white as snow.”
Christian added: “I never loaned Keith Brady a dime, or would I ever loan him a dime.”
Brady is scheduled to appear before the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for sentencing on February 19.
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