A former Gary police officer sent fake letters of support to
help convince a federal judge to give him a lenient sentence, federal attorneys
claim. A new sentencing memorandum does
not say how many of the letters supporting David Finley were faked or how they
were faked. Finley pleaded guilty in February without a plea agreement to
selling a gun to a known felon last summer, and then to selling marijuana to
that same person later that day.