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2 tax office workers, friend of Walters are next to plead guilty in theft scandal
- D.C.’s largest-ever corruption scandal widened Thursday when prosecutors worked out a plea agreement charging two tax office bureaucrats with mortgage fraud.
Lanier releases 3 teens accused of felony after families complain
- D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier intervened to release three teenagers who were arrested for felony charges after relatives complained that the youth were being held too long, a department spokeswoman told The Examiner.
- D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier intervened to release three teenagers who were arrested for felony charges after relatives complained that the youth were being held too long, a department spokeswoman told The Examiner.
Friend of accused tax scam mastermind expected to plead guilty
- The close friend of the accused mastermind of the largest financial corruption scandal in the District’s history is scheduled to appear in federal court today as part of a plea deal, according to charging documents.
Data issues keep D.C. absent from FBI crime report
- When the FBI released preliminary 2007 statistics Monday showing that violent crime has decreased across the country, one major city was absent from the totals: Washington, D.C.
Police checkpoints don’t comfort concerned Trinidad residents
- Trinidad homeowner Willie Dorn said the District’s new police strategy to set up checkpoints has been tried before — and it didn’t work then, either.
Feud with mayor taints police contract talks
- The bitter feud between Mayor Adrian Fenty and the police union has spilled over into contract negotiations, with both sides complaining that the other side is bargaining in bad faith.
Lanier to again fire reinstated officers
- D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced Friday that she has begun to fire for a second time 20 city police officers who were terminated, then ordered to be reinstated because the department missed critical disciplinary deadlines.
Police, Fenty keep peace at memorial service for fallen officers
- Tensions between the police union and Mayor Adrian Fenty were put on hold Friday to maintain the dignity of a memorial service for officers who have died in the line of duty.
Two police officers cleared in slaying of 14-year-old after seven-month probe
- Two veteran D.C. police officers were cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in a case that fractured a Southeast neighborhood and turned D.C. officers against city leaders they felt betrayed them.
Court indicts woman in D.C. tax-office case
- The woman accused of helping stash millions of dollars of stolen cash in the largest public corruption case in the District’s history was indicted in a Maryland federal court on Monday.
Feds subpoena casino records
- Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed casino records as part of the search for tens of millions of dollars allegedly stolen from D.C. tax coffers in the largest corruption case in city history, law enforcement officials said.
- Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed casino records as part of the search for tens of millions of dollars allegedly stolen from D.C. tax coffers in the largest corruption case in city history, law enforcement officials said.
Cops: Row house bodies found
- D.C. police are investigating the deaths of four children whose badly decomposed bodies were found in a Southeast Washington row house Wednesday morning.
- D.C. police are investigating the deaths of four children whose badly decomposed bodies were found in a Southeast Washington row house Wednesday morning.
Accused mastermind's nephew first indicted in tax fraud case
- A nephew of the alleged mastermind of the D.C. tax office scandal was indicted on Monday, the first person to be formally charged by a grand jury in the largest government theft in the city’s history.
- A nephew of the alleged mastermind of the D.C. tax office scandal was indicted on Monday, the first person to be formally charged by a grand jury in the largest government theft in the city’s history.
