Crime Scene Archive: Del Quentin Wilber
Revealing tapes of ride after 1981 Reagan shooting
The Secret Service on Friday released never-before-heard audio recordings made during one of the American presidency's most dramatic and dire episodes: the attempted assassination and wounding of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. The recordings reveal poised Secret Service...
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Del Quentin Wilber
| March 11, 2011; 10:15 AM ET |
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Pershing Park lawyers fees top $2M
The D.C. government has shelled out more than $2 million in attorneys fees to lawyers representing former top D.C. police officials involved in a long-running lawsuit accusing them of ordering unfounded arrests of hundreds of protesters in 2002. The tally...
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Del Quentin Wilber
| March 4, 2011; 4:23 PM ET |
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Federal judge sworn in in D.C.
Two decades ago, a young lawyer wearing a blue pinstripe suit stepped before an appeals court to argue his first case in Washington, and he succeeded in having his client's conviction on first-degree murder charges overturned. Today, that same lawyer...
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Del Quentin Wilber
| March 1, 2011; 1:56 PM ET |
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Hearing scheduled in D.C. bribery case
A plea hearing has been scheduled for Friday afternoon in the corruption case against Ted G. Loza, a former top D.C. Council staffer accused of accepting bribes, according to court officials. Loza was indicted in 2009 on charges of accepting...
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Del Quentin Wilber
| February 18, 2011; 9:39 AM ET |
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Probation for DC tax office employee
A former investigator for the D.C. tax office was sentenced Thursday to probation for participating in a scheme that allowed businesses to avoid paying more than $100,000 in taxes.Shelly-Ann Wicker pleaded guilty in November to accepting $1,800 in bribes in...
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Del Quentin Wilber
| February 17, 2011; 5:07 PM ET |
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Trio charged in armored car heist try
Three men have been indicted on federal charges of trying to rob an armored car in Northeast Washington over the weekend -- a heist that was foiled just seconds before it took place, authorities said.In court papers, the FBI disclosed...
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| February 16, 2011; 3:31 PM ET |
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