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(3/30/06) This week PEOPLE reports on a mystery that is tormenting a God-fearing Tennessee town: Why did Mary Winkler, dutiful preacher's wife and mother of three lovely young girls, take a gun and shoot her husband Matthew in the back in his own house? Police arrested Winkler, 32, on March 23, a day after her husband, 31, was found dead and, they say, she admitted to the shooting. But even as prosecutors charged her with first-degree murder-which requires premeditation-they refused to reveal details of the crime beyond saying they had recovered the murder weapon. Could she have been spurred by infidelity? Some sort of abuse? Her motive remains unclear. The new issue hits newsstands Friday, March 31, 2006. (Photo Courtesy of PEOPLE Magazine via U.S. Newswire)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the Department of Defense Authorization conference report. Conferees on this bill announced today that the report would not include hate crimes language.
"I am strongly committed to sending the hate crimes legislation, passed by the House earlier this year, to the President for his signature. Democrats have worked exhaustively with advocacy groups and polled Members repeatedly, but it is clear that attaching the language to the DoD authorization bill would not create a successful outcome in the House.
"House Democratic leaders will work with our Senate colleagues to make certain that a hate crimes bill passes the Senate and goes to the President's desk."
Source: Office of the Speaker of the House
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Crime Prevention Council announced today the six winners of its national McGruff's 2007 Crime Prevention Awards of Excellence. The individuals and organizations chosen are being honored for doing extraordinary things to prevent crime and create safer and more caring communities.
"It is my honor to recognize these accomplished citizens and organizations that help advance the NCPC mission of helping people keep themselves, their families, and their communities safe from crime," said Alfonso E. Lenhardt, NCPC president and CEO. "It is the dedication and hard work of many across the country that gives us the opportunity to feel safe and secure as we go about our daily lives at work, home, and school," Lenhardt continued.
Nick Arlt has spent five years making a difference in the lives of community members in De Pere, WI. Among Arlt's accomplishments are arranging for his company, Festival Foods, to sponsor National Night Out activities by the De Pere Police Department, raising $50,000 to purchase a K-9 dog for the police department, and raising more than $9,000 through fundraisers and special events in support of the crime prevention foundation of Brown County, WI.
Officer Daryl Pearson has served 26 years as a police officer in Walla Walla, WA. Much of his career has been spent advancing crime prevention initiatives in Washington State. Pearson has instituted 21 different crime prevention programs, taught 15 citizen police academies, and worked to get the state legislature to pass crime prevention resolutions since 1986. He is the current executive director of the Washington State Crime Prevention Association.
The nonprofit Youth Crime Watch of Miami-Dade County is a catalyst for community crime prevention activities in Miami, FL. The organization has conducted more than 451 crime prevention presentations and assemblies serving over 33,000 students in the past year, created an innovative prevention curriculum to address a wide range of prevention topics, and helped McGruff make more than 900 appearances in Miami-Dade schools and the surrounding area. Youth Crime Watch of Miami-Dade County ensures that cultural and ethnic diversity are an integral part of its proactive school and community outreach.
The Ewa Weed & Seed organization in Ewa Beach, HI is an outstanding example of successful crime prevention activities that unite residents, law enforcement, businesses, social services, and others to prevent crime and restore community cohesion. Ewa formed 37 neighborhood security watch groups and citizen patrols to reduce significantly the illegal activities occurring in the community. The organization collaborated with Ewa Beach businesses, nonprofits, churches, and residents to conduct a multitude of community events from food distribution, police officers involved as community mentors with EWA youths, and neighborhood cleanup and restoration projects.
Founded only seven years ago, Darkness to Light, headquartered in Charleston, SC, has made a tremendous impact on preventing child sexual abuse. The organization personifies one of NCPC's four strategic goals -- protecting children and youth -- in a unique online or in-classroom program that focuses adult attention on this problem, which costs the nation more than $23 billion in direct and related costs. Darkness to Light has trained more than 75,000 adults on how to prevent, recognize, and react to child sexual abuse.
Virginia law enforcement and other organizations know the value of working with the Virginia Crime Prevention Association (VCPA). VCPA has saved them more than $700,000 in annual training costs and conducted over 110 training courses and presentations that reached nearly 3,700 individuals in more than 200 locations. Using a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, the Virginia Crime Prevention Association hosted two forums for state crime prevention program leaders to discuss opportunities to enhance crime prevention services to areas in Virginia.
The winners will receive their awards at the National Crime Prevention Council's 8th National Conference on Preventing Crime in Atlanta, GA, on Thursday, October 4, 2007, at a special luncheon celebration. The 12:30 -- 2:30 p.m. luncheon will be located at the Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street, NE.
The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is a private, nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to be the nation's leader in helping people keep themselves, their families, and their communities safe from crime. NCPC manages public service advertising under the National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign -- symbolized by McGruff the Crime Dog(R) and his "Take A Bite Out Of Crime(R)" slogan -- and acts as secretariat for the Crime Prevention Coalition of America, more than 400 national, federal, state, and local organizations representing thousands of constituents who are committed to preventing crime. NCPC is funded through a variety of government agencies, corporate and private foundations, and donations from private individuals. For more information on crime prevention issues, visit http://www.ncpc.org/.
Source: National Crime Prevention Council
LOS ANGELES, April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Outspoken critic of the liberal black establishment and men's rights advocate Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), today released the following statement about the treatment of the Duke lacrosse players charged with the rape and kidnapping of a 27-year-old black stripper:
"The white student athletes in the Duke rape case are deemed guilty until proven innocent by anti-male feminists and liberal black leaders like Rev. Jesse Jackson because they are perceived as privileged southern white males. The treatment of these boys by the mainstream media is deplorable. The nation has overreacted to this case because it involves the alleged 'rape' of a black woman by white males. The way this case is being handled is an example of race and sex discrimination. If these young men were black they would be treated with kid gloves; if the victim was a male this case would be laughed out of court. DNA tests have failed to connect these boys to this alleged crime; yet their mug shots are plastered in the media as if they've already been found guilty-where's the photo of the alleged victim?
This case is proving that Americans are too sensitive when it comes to matters of race and sex. Liberal black leaders and feminists understand this and are exploiting this weakness for political gain. This situation calls for calm and reflective scrutiny. Thus far, the only thing these young men are guilty of is hiring a black stripper while white. The reputations and lives of these boys and their families are being destroyed partly because of the students' own poor judgment, but primarily because of the double standard society uses in dealing with incidents involving race and gender."
Rev. Peterson is the founder and president of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), a nationally respected nonprofit organization that for the past 16 years has been providing unique programs and services designed to help men and their families. Rev. Peterson is also an author and columnist. For more information visit http://www.bondinfo.org
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WASHINGTON, April 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- NextiraOne LLC, a Houston-based networking company, was charged and sentenced today to pay a $4.6 million criminal fine and restitution for defrauding the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E-Rate program and schools on a South Dakota reservation, the Department of Justice announced.
According to the one-count wire fraud charge filed today in U.S. District Court in South Dakota, NextiraOne, a subsidiary of Platinum Equity LLC, defrauded the E-Rate program and the Oglala Nation Educational Coalition (ONEC) member schools - located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota - by inflating equipment prices, submitting false and fraudulent invoices for payment, and failing to install and deliver certain equipment and services originally billed to the E-Rate program. The sentencing took place before Judge Lawrence L. Piersol in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls, S.D.
"These fraudulent schemes rob funds used to assist the neediest schools and libraries across the country,"said Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department's Antitrust Division. "The Antitrust Division will aggressively prosecute those who defraud federal programs and harm the economically disadvantaged."
The E-Rate program provides funding for Internet access and other telecommunications services to economically disadvantaged schools and libraries. Under the E-Rate program, which was created by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, schools apply for monies for networking infrastructure, communications equipment, and monthly connectivity service fees.
Including today's filing, 11 individuals and 10 companies have been charged as part of the Antitrust Division's ongoing investigation into fraud and anticompetitive conduct in the E- Rate program. Six companies and three individuals have either pleaded guilty or have entered civil settlements. Those defendants have agreed to pay criminal fines and restitution totaling more than $40 million. Two of the individuals have each been sentenced to serve six years in prison.
"The outcome speaks for itself. We hope that this result gives pause to those who would attempt to defraud the E-Rate program, who are stealing monies from innocent and needy victims, our children. We will continue our efforts in supporting the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice as we move forward in this and other investigations," said Dr. Kent R. Nilsson, Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission.
NextiraOne has cooperated in the investigation, and under the plea agreement, has agreed to continue to do so. NextiraOne will pay a $1.9 million criminal fine. A civil settlement filed today requires NextiraOne to forfeit more than $2.6 million in reimbursement for uncompensated work previously performed at other school districts.
"This prosecution reflects the dedication and commitment of a number of federal agencies to seek justice for the children victimized by this fraud," said Steven K. Mullins, United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota.
The wire fraud charge, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, carries a maximum penalty of a $500,000 fine and restitution to the victims of the crime. The maximum fine may be increased to twice the gain derived from the crime or twice the loss suffered by the victims of the crime, if either of those amounts is greater than the statutory maximum fine.
The investigation is being conducted by the Antitrust Division's Chicago Field Office, along with assistance from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Dakota and the Rapid City, S.D. office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Justice Department's Civil Division is handling the civil action. The FCC's Office of Inspector General also assisted throughout the course of this investigation.
Anyone with information concerning fraud or anticompetitive conduct in the E-Rate program should contact the Chicago Field Office of the Antitrust Division at (312) 353-7530.
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8-17-05 (Santa Ana, California). Skylar Deleon, 26, and his wife, Jennifer Henderson Deleon, 24, will stand trial for the murders of a wealthy California couple who were tied to the anchor of their yacht and thrown overboard alive. Deleon starred in the "Power Rangers" TV series. Allegedly, a 40-year old Crips street gang member and ex-prison guard were enlisted to carry out the plot after seeing the yacht for sale in a boating magazine. The Deleons are accused of posing as interested buyers and convincing the couple to take the boat on a test run. Then, they were attacked with a stun gun, handcuffed, and gagged with duct tape. After signing over power of attorney, they were tied to the boat's anchor and thrown overboard.
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