GW student dies after beating
A George Washington University student has died following an assault near the school, the school announced.
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According to police report, Patrick David Casey, 33, got into a physical confrontation with three people outside a McDonald’s restaurant in the 1900 block of M Street about 2:40 a.m. Friday. One of the men punched Casey, who fell backward and landed on the pavement.
The assailants were described as in their mid-20s, 6 feet tall with a medium build. The person who threw the punch was listed on the police report as being of an unknown race wearing a yellow shirt. The other two attackers were white.
Casey was taken to the George Washington Hospital for a cut to his nose and the back of the head. Casey, an Army veteran from Clifton, N.Y., had just returned from serving in Afghanistan, was earning a graduate degree at the Elliott School of International Affairs. The cause and manner of death has not been determined, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Publisher sentenced
to six months prison
The president of a D.C.-area community newspaper chain has been sentenced to six months in prison for failing to pay nearly $1 million in taxes. Peter Labovitz, the president of Connection Newspapers, didn’t pay more than $940,000 in employment and income taxes to the Internal Revenue Service between 2002 and 2008. He pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria in July.
Labovitz was also ordered to serve one year of home confinement and pay $641,510 in restitution to the IRS.
According to court documents, taxes were deducted from employees’ wages, but Labovitz intentionally didn’t pay those sums to the IRS.
— Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
