Results tagged “probation”

We missed this City Desk report that D.C. Shadow Senator Paul Strauss pleaded guilty last Friday on charges stemming from his DUI stop in Adams Morgan last year. Strauss is one of the District's two elected shadow senators, a symbolic position charged with lobbying for statehood that carries few privileges and no pay. Following his guilty plea, Strauss received 11 months probation and must pay $400 in fines. The police account of Strauss's arrest stated that he had a 0.16 percent blood-alcohol level, twice the legal limit, that he "appeared confused" and that he flashed his U.S. Senate badge at the arresting officer.

WUSA9 reports that D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) filed his 2007 tax returns. Barry's 2007 state return was hand-delivered to the D.C. Tax office late Friday, and his federal return was delivered to the IRS office today. Earlier this month prosecutors asked a federal judge to jail Barry for failing once again to file a tax return, in violation of his parole. Barry has since said he failed to file because he was distracted by health problems, including an impending kidney transplant. Barry's attorneys reportedly have until Monday to tell the judge in writing why he should not have his probation revoked for failing to file on time again.

NBC4 gets the first react from Marion Barry on yesterday's late breaking news that federal prosecutors will once again seek jail time for the D.C. Council member. Barry stands accused of violating his parole yet again by failing to file a tax return for the year 2007. In typical Barry style, the mayor for life pleads ignorance to the latest developments.

Vice President Dick Cheney puts his troubled heart in the care of George Washington University Medical Center (check out The Colonialist's photos of Cheney waving to the crowd as he left yesterday afternoon), but the Liaison Committee on Medical Education has since put the medical school for which the hospital serves as a training ground on probation. The Post characterizes the probationary status of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences as no laughing matter: it is the only medical school currently on probation, and only the fifth put on probation since 1994. The problems cited by the committee include areas ranging from curriculum, to administration, to facilities management. The school remains fully accredited while it works to improve to the point where its probationary status is removed.