GSA worker gets prison in kickback, bribery scheme
A General Services Administration worker was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for his role in a kickback and bribery scheme.
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Eric Minor, 45, was the 11th GSA employee sentenced as part of an investigation into agency contracts, according to the Justice Department.
In a May guilty plea, Minor admitted that he helped run a scheme to get about $118,000 in cash kickback payments from six contractors in exchange for using his position as a customer service manager to have their companies perform construction and maintenance jobs at facilities he managed.
Minor was sentenced Monday in federal court in the District.
Md. teen pleads not guilty in ‘Jihad Jane’ case
A Maryland high school student pleaded not guilty to charges he helped the American terrorist dubbed “Jihad Jane” raise money and recruit for a Muslim holy war.
Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, of Ellicott City, appeared without family or friends in a federal courtroom in Philadelphia. He faces 15 years in prison and deportation to his native Pakistan if convicted. Prosecutors say the teen met Colleen LaRose, 46, in an online chat room when he was about 15, and pledged to send her money to pass on to the jihadists. He is also accused of hiding a passport for her.
LaRose pleaded guilty to plotting to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims.
D.C. police investigate fatal hit-and-run
D.C. police are investigating a deadly hit-and-run in the Shaw neighborhood.
About 8 a.m. Sunday, police were called to an alley in the 1800 block of Sixth Street NW to investigate a report of a man down. D.C. firefighters responded and determined that the man was dead.
Police said the man, identified as John Young Kim, 32, of Berkeley, Calif. had been struck and dragged by a vehicle.
— Scott McCabe and Emily Babay
