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Ex-U.S. official and wife admit 30 years of spying for Cuba

A former State Department official and his wife admitted in federal court Friday that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades, receiving coded instructions over a shortwave radio and passing along information to intelligence operatives in ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: US State Department,  Fidel Castro,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Alexander Graham Bell

Unlawful arrest ruling overturned in D.C. case

A federal appeals court Friday overturned a judge's ruling that D.C. police unlawfully arrested dozens of people during disturbances the night of President George W. Bush's second inauguration. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  David B Sentelle

FBI links ex-D.C. taxi panel chief to bribe scheme

The former head of the D.C. taxi commission participated in a long-running bribery scheme that sought his influence to obtain lucrative taxi licenses, federal authorities allege in recently unsealed court papers. This Story FBI links ex-chief of taxi ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Ex-D.C. chief's statement on mass arrest disputed

A D.C. police detective says he overheard then-Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey order a controversial mass arrest during a demonstration in downtown Washington seven years ago, according to attorneys for people taken into custody that day. The disclosure ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: International Monetary Fund,  World Bank

Ex-D.C. worker admits taking thousands in kickback scheme

A former D.C. government employee admitted in federal court Friday that he took thousands of dollars in kickbacks to steer contracts to a technology consulting firm. Farrukh Awan, 37, of South Riding, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud in ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  14 Nov 2009

Chief of region's FBI office to retire

One of the region's top FBI agents has announced he is retiring on Christmas day. Joseph Persichini, Jr., has served as the chief of the Washington Field Office, which covers the District and Northern Viriginia, since 2006. Leading the Washington Field ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

D.C. man admits to $800,000 in fraud

An assistant professor at Williams College and visiting researcher at Yale University admitted in the District's federal court this week that he defrauded banks, the federal government and credit card companies out of $800,000 in the past decade. Under ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yale University

Scientist offered U.S. secrets for $2 million, prosecutors say

A Chevy Chase scientist accused of attempted espionage wanted $2 million for his secrets and stashed 55 gold Krugerrand coins worth about $50,000 in a California safe deposit box, federal prosecutors said. The disclosure came in court papers filed late ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chevy Chase,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  NASA

Largo man charged with killing witness in case against him

A 31-year-old Largo man has been charged with killing a witness against him in a federal drug case. Weldon Gordon was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in the District for allegedly conspiring to obstruct justice by killing a 32-year-old DEA ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  28 Oct 2009

2 cellphones taken from D.C. jail inmate

Authorities seized two cellphones from a D.C. jail inmate last month, court records show. A D.C. corrections officer seized the two pre-paid cellphones Sept. 23 from Christopher Bailey, 31, who is being held at the jail's Central Treatment Facility on ...

From DEL QUENTIN WILBER, The Washington Post,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Christopher Bailey,  Drug Enforcement Administration

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