Four men have pleaded guilty to stealing $200,000 worth of textbooks from the George Washington University library and selling them off to students at a discount.
A former employee of D.C.’s Office of Tax and Revenue pleaded guilty today to taking part in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns that raked in $14.7 million in local and federal funds.
A D.C. man accused of killing a puppy with a cement block earlier in the summer pleaded guilty yesterday, and now faces five years in jail.
As expected, a campaign aide to Mayor Vince Gray pleaded guilty today to lying to federal investigators about his role in a scheme to pay fringe mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown to stay in the 2010 race and attack Mayor Adrian Fenty.
Thomas Gore, a close friend and former assistant treasurer of his 2010 mayoral campaign, today pleaded guilty to steering money orders to the floundering campaign of fringe candidate Sulaimon Brown and then destroying evidence of the fact once federal investigators started looking into the allegations.
Two pieces of courtroom action to keep track of from today. The first is former Jim Graham chief-of-staff Ted Loza, who appeared in a brief hearing today to enter a plea of not guilty, as expected. D.C. Wire has the report. Loza stands accused of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and making false statements. His trial is not expected to start until October. Second is a guilty plea in the nearly forgotten OCTO case. Sushil Bansal,…
Wizards guard Javaris Crittenton was charged with two misdemeanor counts of unlawful gun possession earlier today, but has already entered a guilty plea on one of the charges, as part of a deal with prosecutors, the Post’s Keith Alexander and Mike Wise report from D.C. Superior Court.Senior Judge Bruce Beaudin on Monday agreed with the prosecutor’s suggestion and sentenced Crittenton to one year of unsupervised probation and $1,250 in fines. Crittenton also agreed to begin…
Word from D.C. Superior Court is that suspended Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas has entered a guilty plea to a single felony count of carrying a firearm without a license. City Paper’s Mike DeBonis tweets that sentencing has been set for Mar. 26, and that prosecutors have agreed to recommend a sentence on the lowest end of federal guidelines, which in this case carry a maximum of 6 months. That doesn’t mean that Arenas will…
It’s a breaking news kinda Wednesday, apparently. As best we can tell, Marc Steiner was actually the first person to report that embattled Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement reached with state prosecutors. The AP has since confirmed the news, noting that the mayor’s resignation comes shortly after she entered an Alford plea today on a perjury charge. Dixon was convicted last month of embezzling gift cards…
Yusuf Acar Yusuf Acar, the former D.C. computer security official who was arrested and charged in March for his part in a bribery scheme that allegedly funneled phony contracts and pay checks through the District’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, is expected to plead guilty, the Examiner reports. The full terms of the plea agreement are not yet known, but “Acar would pay back more than $200,000 in stolen money, including $69,000 in…
