Family accused of defrauding NSA
A father, his son and his daughter were indicted on charges of fraudulently billing the National Security Agency by more than $1.4 million.
Charged were William Turley, 70, of Annapolis, Donald Turley, 53, of Owings Mills, and Christina Turley Knott, 50, of Edgewater. The family owned a manufacturing company in Upper Marlboro that made metal, plastic and sheet metal and other items for the NSA and other customers.
According to prosecutors, the defendants instructed employees to inflate the amount of hours they spent on NSA jobs from 1997 to 2008. The father and son allegedly became aware that from 2002 through 2005, Christina Knott, the company’s bookkeeper, embezzled about $4.5 million, but did not take action for fear that she would reveal their scheme to defraud NSA.
Man sentenced for pimping D.C. girl
A Glen Burnie man has been sentenced to 10 years and one month in prison for forcing a 12-year-old girl from the District to work as a prostitute.
Court records say 43-year-old Derwin Smith picked up the girl on a D.C. street, paid for sexual services in his car and recruited her to work as a prostitute. Members of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force recovered the girl, who had been reported missing, from an Anne Arundel County hotel room in June.
– Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
