Officers Thomas Bruder and Thomas Wiese are accused of beating him in a police car on the way to the stationhouse and Bellomo is charged with helping cover up the crime.

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And what's interesting is sometimes it's not actually the crime that you're looking at, but the cover up after the crime that's going to be the problem, as was the case in Scooter Libby's case.

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Some claimed that the community had sought to cover up the alleged crime in order protect the two accused.

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What we have here is a variant on the old Washington maxim about the cover-up being worse than the crime.

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The cover-up is always worse than the crime, goes the old saying.

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