PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County Jail's internal affairs chief has been fired for falsely claiming to be a former police officer when he testified about an FBI slaying suspect's recorded jailhouse phone calls, and for other "inconsistencies and misrepresentations" of his employment history, a county spokeswoman said Thursday.

Capt. Thomas Leicht, 47, of North Versailles was "terminated" over discrepancies reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, spokeswoman Megan Dardanell said. The newspaper also reported that Leicht was about to be fired. Dardanell confirmed Thursday to The Associated Press that the firing had occurred.

Leicht's termination "has to do with inconsistencies and misrepresentations that he made in court and in applications on documents at the jail," Dardanell told the AP. "His position requires the utmost integrity."

Leicht's testimony came at a June pretrial hearing in the case of Christina Korbe, 41, of Indiana Township, who is charged with murdering FBI Agent Samuel Hicks. Hicks and other officers were raiding her home in November 2008, seeking to arrest her husband, Robert, on drug charges.