PUMA Recording undercuts a $50-million brutality claim against the LAPD

October 16, 2012 LOS ANGELES -- A PUMA digital voice recording of a Deutsche Bank executive telling Glendale police about his abuse of bath salts undercuts a $50-million brutality claim against two Los Angeles Police Department officers.

Deutsche Bank executive Brian C. Mulligan alleges that after he was injured in May by two LAPD officers, the LAPD manufactured a report that painted him as a snarling, thrashing man who told the officers he'd recently ingested drugs known as "bath salts."

But days before the confrontation, Mulligan apparently told a Glendale police officer a similar account to what appears in the LAPD report.

He said he'd previously snorted "white lightning," a type of bath salts, a synthetic drug, and believed that a helicopter had been trailing him, according to a Glendale police recording of the conversation using a PUMA Recorder.

Only time will tell whether this admission by Deutsche Bank vice chairman Brian Mulligan will be the unraveling of his $50 million lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department. Mulligan made the statement during a recorded conversation with a Glendale police officer just two day before his violent confrontation with LAPD officers, which is the basis of his suit against the department.

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Audio: PUMA Recording Glendale Police Department