State Department employee pleads guilty to identity theft

A former State Department employee has pleaded guilty in an identity theft scheme in which a key witness in the federal probe was gunned down outside a D.C. church, according to court documents and law enforcement officials.

No arrests have been made in the 2008 slaying of a co-conspirator in the scam, and D.C. police have said they have no information that the killing is connected to the identity theft scheme.