EX-POLICE OFFICIAL PROBED IN MONEY LAUNDERING CASE

LOS ANGELES - A 40-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department -
until recently one of its highest-ranking officials - is under
investigation for real estate transactions that authorities believe may
have laundered money from a multimillion-dollar cocaine ring his son headed.

Authorities are probing the financial ties between former Deputy Chief
Maurice Moore, 66, and Kevin Moore, a convicted cocaine trafficker.

Investigators are scrutinizing at least two real estate transactions
involving Maurice Moore to determine whether he sought to hide assets
generated by his son's Detroit-based cocaine dealing.

In one of the 1992 real estate transactions, the elder Moore purchased an
apartment building, county records show. Seven years later, Kevin Moore
claimed in court papers that the building belonged to him, even though real
estate records still showed it in Maurice Moore's name.

The other deal involves a house that was transferred into Maurice Moore's
name by Cheryl Frazier. Frazier's sister was married to Kevin Moore.