AP Source: Madam Suspect's Broker Pal Identified

Published March 8, 2012 7:36AM (EST)

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer says a police officer he is representing is bewildered that he's been linked to an investigation of an accused multimillion-dollar madam.

Attorney Andrew Quinn says Sgt. Richard Wall "has no involvement" with accused madam Anna Gristina.

Prosecutors say during a five-year investigation Gristina was heard saying she'd made millions of dollars over about 15 years running a Manhattan prostitution ring and claimed to have law enforcement connections.

Gristina has pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution and remained jailed on $2 million bond Wednesday.

Wall has been ordered to give internal-affairs investigators his work log for the past five years. Quinn says as far as he knows, Wall is not under any criminal or administrative investigation.


By Salon Staff

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