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Percy Whitman Knapp (February 24, 1909 – June 14, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Previous to that service, he led a far-reaching investigation into corruption in the New York City Police Department from 1970 to 1972.
Jun 15, 2004 · June 15, 2004. Correction Appended. Whitman Knapp, a federal judge with a prosecutor's tenacity and a Wall Street pedigree who led New York City through a tumultuous two-year investigation into...
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Judge Whitman Knapp. The Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption (known informally as the Knapp Commission, after its chairman Whitman Knapp) was a five-member panel initially formed in April 1970 by Mayor John V. Lindsay to investigate corruption within the New York City Police Department.
Jun 29, 2004 · Whitman Knapp, a federal judge who led a far-reaching two-year investigation into corruption in the New York City Police Department, died on June 14 at Cabrini Hospice in Manhattan. He was 95...
Sep 20, 2015 · Mr. Knapp, 49, is an assistant United States attorney in the business and securities fraud section of the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. He ...
Jan 8, 2021 · Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alixandra Smith and Whitman Knapp of the Eastern District of New York and Trial Attorneys Katherine Nielsen, Elizabeth S. Boison and Nikhila Raj are prosecuting the case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided assistance in this case.
Oct 15, 2021 · Named for its chairperson Whitman Knapp—the former Manhattan assistant district attorney and future U.S. district court judge—the commission sought to “uncover definitive proof of the extent of graft among 32,000 police officers, and bring that proof to public attention.”
