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admitted to a federal judge that he doctored two loan applications to the industrial bank of washington. in one for $184,000 he falsely claimed that he had outside consulting work that paid $3,000 per month with a $10,000 raise on the way. he then falsely listed a college friend as president of the bogus company. in a second application for a loan to buy a boat brown falsely claimed thanked $85,000 from a company when, in fact, he earned -- that he earned $85,000 from a company, what in fact, he earned 35,000. on the form brown simply changed the 3 to an 8. did the prosecution seek his resignation as part of this deal or did your client offer his resignation? >> i think it's hard to say. it was both. >> by afternoon kwame brown was inside d.c. superior court. as part of the same plea agreement he admitted to aiding and beattieing in the 2008
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campaign scheme. prosecutors said kwame brown allowed his brother chay brown who did not hold an official campaign position to secretly set up two bank accounts at the industrial bank of washington and issued five checks, signed five checks ranging from $1,500 to $5,000. he cashed the checks at the bank and disbursed the money to campaign workers. it's all illegal. kwame brown said while he violated the campaign law he never stole campaign or government dollars. >> i am guilty of everybodying that poll workers and others received more than $50 in cash payment for doing campaign work. that is and has been done in this city for years. i believe i'm the only one, the only candidate that's ever been charged with a misdemeanor. >> you might have heard prosecutors say one of those checks was cashed up to a year after the campaign was over. kwame brown free on his own personal recognizance is due
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back in court september 20th for sentencing. the judge is allowing him one week beginning tomorrow to leave town with his family to get away from all this. back to you guys. >> we'll chat with you further in a couple minutes. in the last hour federal prosecutors and investigators in the case are out front talking about kwame and today's proceedings. >> our bruce leshan is live at the u.s. attorney's office in northwest with details on what they had to say. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, anita and derek, kwame brown spoke so softly inside the courtroom that even the judge had haired time hearing him, but here -- a hard time hearing him, but here in the u.s. attorney's office the prosecutor spoke loud and clear and offered no apologies for bringing these charges. kwame brown suggested outside the u.s. district courthouse that somehow maybe he was singled out that, nobody else had ever been charged with this kind of campaign finance violation and that he stole no city or campaign funds, but the
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u.s. attorney said that these laws are in place so the voters know whether they can trust their politicians. >> do you think those voters would have elected mr. brown if they had known he had submitted fraudulent bank documents in 2005 and 2007 before the election? this is a man that controlled millions of dollars in the city budget. i think the way to answer that is how would you feel if we left him in office and a greater fraud was perpetrated upon the public down the road? >> the sense of entitlement by these individual has to stop. they are not entitled to that which does not belong to them. they are not entitled to break the law without repercussion. it is instead our citizens who are entitled. they're entitled to expect more from our public officials and we will continue to work to insure they receive the most honest government representation possible. >> in doesn't have any color. it's not a witch hunt. i think a lot of people buy into that because it's an easy excuse probably put out there
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by the same people that we're looking into, but we prosecute those who violate the law regardless of race or sex or anything else. >> and the prosecutors pointed out that industrial bank is actually the oldest and largest african american owned bank in the country. of course, the investigation continues. there is still the possibility of charges against person one in these charging documents. kwame brown's brother chay and, of course, there's that whole investigation into mayor vincent gray's campaign and that could come to a head pretty soon, too. back to you. >> as you said, bruce, nowhere near over. thank you. let's continue to chat about this. i'm joined again by bruce johnson. he's been in this game so long he knows all the players. bruce, we heard about person one, chay brown, never named in the documents. we've named him. why wasn't he charged? >> who says he won't be charged? i think on both side i've got
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sources saying he probably will be charged and there will be multiple charges against him and there are others, though, relatives of kwame brown involved in this. i'm told there probably won't be a charge against another close relative to kwame brown. >> let's talk about other people who might be charged and i mean d.c. council members. this thing is ongoing and basically they've said everything is on the table here, the prosecution. >> also being a politician you don't have to be charged to be tainted in this. other people are going to be charged in this case accord case a -- case according to sources it. continues and everybody now knows who the targets are. they're still looking at lore gain green and at mayor -- at lorraine green and at mayor gray and his campaign and whether or not something will happen to these people we won't know. it hasn't happen yet. these people have said in the past they're innocent but have since clammed up. >> we've been watching this so
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very long. wouldn't you agree we're nun chartered territory here? we've -- in unchartered territory here. we've never seen this many prosecutions. >> this is clearly a sweeping investigation it. started out looking at campaign fraud or allegations. it has gone well beyond that as the kwame brown charges now show. they're looking at obstruction of justice, looking at people's income taxes, still the big jeff thompson, the money man that has given to of campaign in his town. they raid -- to every campaign in town. they raided his house. he's given up his job. where is jeff thompson? maybe he's in protective custody. we don't know. this is still in the middle of the storm. people in the courthouse today were cancelling vacations. >> wow, belong, hot d.c. summer maybe like none we've ever -- long, hot d.c. summer, maybe like none we've ever seen. so who do you think may be next to land in some legal trouble in the d.c. government?
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join the confidence on our facebook. come up at 6:00 local politicians weigh in on the recent scandals in d.c. and how they could hurt the push for state's rights in in city. the accused east coast rapist won't get a second mental evaluation to see if he's competent to stand trial in virginia. attorneys for aaron thomas want that second evaluation because they said thomas had stopped talking to them and was injuring himself, but a judge in manassas said there was no reason for another look. thomas is accused of raping two teenage girls halloween night 2009 in woodbridge. dna has linked him to 14 other attacks in other states. the hopes of finally seeing another trim crown winner are d.a.s.h. -- triple crown winner are d.a.s.h.ed today. i'll have another has been scratched, pulled out of the belmont stakes. dave owens joins us now with what's caused the last minute scratch. dave, so many people so disappointed. what the heck happened? >> shocker, derek. that's the only word i can say.
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think of the enormous and timing of it because race fans were thinking okay in, about 24 hours we're going to potentially see the first triple crown winner in 34 years. well, that's going to have to wait. i'll have another says i won't have another. that's because after galloping this morning and then she was brought into the stall. the handlers noticed swelling in the left front leg, not life threatening but enough to give everyone pause and make the decision, which nobody wanted to, do to hold him out of the belmont. his trainer doug o'neill trying to encapsulate the emotion and give it some perspective, too. >> so it's far from tragic. no one died or anything like that, but it's extremely disappointing and i feel so sorry for the whole people. we've had such an amazing run. >> yeah, amazing run. of course, we won't see the final leg of that triple down.
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tendonitis is the official diagnosis, could have taken three to six months to treat, but that made the decision easy. he will be retired. >> so we know what happens next for this sort of a horse. they'll be breeding, right? dave, thank you. still to come the national federation of the blind calls for a boycott against goodwill after accusations that their pay is just too low. >> plus a north carolina teen overcomes unbelievable odds to graduate from high school. we'll tell you how she's going from being homeless to harvard. >> but first president obama pressing congress to pass his jobs bill in hopes of getting some americans back to work.
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president obama said this year's election year can't be an excuse for congress not to pass measures to help create american jobs. that was just part of his address today on the state of the u.s. and the world economy. the president spoke at a briefing today at the white house this morning. he discussed the debt crisis in europe and pressed congress to help the world's economy by passing parts of the jobs bill he sent to lawmakers last year. that prompted republicans to fire back. >> they left most of the jobs plan just sitting there and in light of the headwinds that we're facing right now i urge them to reconsider. >> it is not because of house republicans. it's because of the failed stimulus policies and other
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items in his agenda. >> another source of contention, the bush era tax cuts. republican leaders say the house will vote next month to extend them, but the president wants to see them expire for people making more than $250,000 a year. joining us now to talk more about the president's address on the economy, the host of cbs news face the nation bob schieffer and, bob, a really tough week for the president, bad economic news, organized labor gets a smackdown in wisconsin. with today's exercise an effort to use the bully pulpit to just stop the bleeding? >> i think probably it was, derek. you're right. the obama white house has seen better weeks than this one turned out to be. that recall election out there in wisconsin where big labor and the democrats tried to topple the governor in that recall election scott walker and walker won that and won it pretty handily. he's going to be our lead guest on face the nation sunday.
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we're also going to have richard trunka, president of the alfcio, one of those leading the effort to get rid of way, and also maryland governor martin o'malley will be here to round that out. we're also going to do a segment on all of these extraordinary leaks that are suddenly popping up about secret government programs, you know, to cripple the nuclear refinement effort going on in iran. dianne feinstein is chairman of the senate intelligence committee and her equal number over in the house, mike rogers, will both be here to talk about that, but i got to tell you the thing that i'm most looking forward to, next week mark the 40th anniversary of the water -- marks the 40th anniversary of watergate break-in and bob woodward and karl bernstein, a couple young reporters who broke that story, will be here to talk to us about it.
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it's the first double by line in the post since those watergate posts. >> do we still do that kind of journalism today in the age of soundbites and cable news? would we even cover a story like watergate? could it even get in a newspaper? >> well, when it happened, i didn't think it was a very big story. i thought what's the big deal. who would be stupid enough to break into campaign headquarters? what kind of secrets will you find out there? so i just assumed there's nothing to it. woodward and bernstein did what reporters are supposed to do. they went down there and checked it out, turned out to be a little more than i thought it was, but i went on. they send me off to miami to cover the democratic and republican conventions that summer and that worked out fine for me, but they found a pretty good story there. >> it tended to be a little bit of a story. bob schieffer, face the nation, thank you, sir, great chatting with you. >> thank you. a north carolina high
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school senior whose life has been scarred by homelessness, hunger and neglect has now been accepted to harvard. her entire town of lawndale is cheering her on. dawn logins worked as a janitor at the school, got straight a's and took seven hours in advanced courses. not only is she accepted into harvard, but her tuition and housing will be covered. >> i didn't jump and down and i didn't cry or anything like that, but it did get the largest reaction out of many of my acceptance letters. i sort of did this like sigh. >> it takes your breath away. dawn's teachers made sure she was clothed and fed and had a place to live. her history teacher wrote a recommendation letter telling dawn's story. her community stepped up to make sure she got into not just any college, but harvard. talking about exceptional education, let's tune in tonight for mike hydek's
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primetime special cool schools. the future is now. you'll hear stories about amazing teachers and students in our area who are taking education to the next level. that's tonight from 8:00 to 9:00 right here on wusa9, cool schools. graduation for one school on the jersey shore was quite a whirlwind but not for the reasons you might expect. take a look at the sky above yesterday's ceremony. oh, yes. man, if you're dorothy, you know you are headed for oz. that is a funnel cloud forming right nearby the galloway township. somebody in the stands caught this whole ordeal on cell phone video. the crowd was pelted by hail and rain. some people ran for cover. luckily nobody was hurt. maybe more than some should have run for cover when you see something like that. >> what do you do with that many people outside? is that if you're outside a school, go inside. -- >> if you're outside a school, go inside. that's definitely a funnel cloud, may not touch down. >> maybe. >> not but you don't want to
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know. >> you don't usually see them that close up. >> you don't want to wait for it to touch down either. i'll have another, which i'm so bummed about, if you want to take your mind off that, go to the oldest horse show in the nation, 159th in upperville this weekend. >> are the horses that old? >> i hope not. >> just a show. check it out. go to upperville. it is a good time, also a festival there sunday. let's look live outside. it is spectacular. it is not humid. it's comfortably this is our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. temperature 85. look at the dew point in the 40s again. that is great. that means comfortable, open your windows but not too far because it will get pretty cool tonight. relative humidity 20's%, pretty low for us for this time of year. winds west, northwest at 8, pressure 29.94 inches of mercury and steady in the past hour. 84 college park, 81 bethesda,
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84 rockville, 83 great falls, 82 toward leesburg and as well in manassas and 84 fort belvoir. temps are about average, but the humidity is making it really comfortable. gorgeous weekend, comfortable tonight. grab your shades tomorrow. not humid saturday. it will be kind of hot and then hot sunday and a bit more humid. we'll see both days dry. we'll keep both days under code green, too for our 9 weather alerts. clear and comfortable tonight, open the windows, 55 to 65, winds west, northwest at 10, a perfect night to walk the dog, play a quick 9 before the sun sets or come downtown and take darren outside. tomorrow morning mostly sunny -- a dinner outside. tomorrow morning mostly sunny and pleasant, wind west, northwest at 10, moderate air quality, may end up as green, which is good. by afternoon mostly sunny and almost hot but not humid and that's the key, high temperatures near 90 and winds out of the west at 10.
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even if you want to garden tomorrow, it will still be comfortable. 77 in oakland, our software downgrade, 85 in cumberland. they'll line up eventually, 86 hagerstown and martinsburg, 87 winchester. right around 90 down toward culpeper, upper 80s in leesburg, warrenton and manassas, a gorgeous day in the mountains and coast, downtown 89 and 89 into southern maryland around waldorf and hughesville, 88 gaithersburg and rockville 87. mid-80s by the bay and winds well below small craft advisory criteria, a nice weekend to be on the water. here's your day planner, 55 to 65 to start, 82 to 86 by lunchtime and then 87 to 91 by evening all under mostly sunny skies. next three days we've got green, green and yellow monday there. will be a few thunderstorms monday especially in the afternoon, might impact your evening commute. we'll keep you posted, but green tomorrow 89, 90 sunday,
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88 on monday. now next seven days tuesday also a chance of a shower or thunderstorm. temps go down a little bit, mid- 80s and then wednesday the best chance for showers and storms as a cold front approaches and that will leave us with a nice thursday and friday, won't really cool us off that much, temperatures thursday and friday still in the low to mid- 80s which is average. >> we're digging the summer thing. >> yeah, we are. culpeper police officer daniel harmon-wright pleaded not guilty today to murder and three other related counts. he's also been granted a $1,000 bond. newly released court records show harmon-wright used excessive force on another family one month before he shot and killed an unarmed woman. our peggy fox has an exclusive interview with the young man who says he was threatened at gunpoint in his home by officer harmon-wright. peggy was at the officer's arraignment and bond hearing today. >> his initial reaction was shock and horror. he was on the verge of nausea. >> reporter: dan hahns ex courted his client culpeper --
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escorted his client culpeper police officer daniel harmon- wright to jail after a special grand jury indicted him for murder and three other related counts. the 32-year-old is charged in the shooting death of 54-year- old patricia cook who was sitting in her jeep gangly in a catholic -- wrangler in a catholic parking lot february 9th. >> she had been wandering around this religious school, refused to identify herself. >> reporter: harmon-wright and cook wound up in a confrontation. he told investigators she caught his arm in the window and was dragging him when he shot her six times. special prosecutor jim fisher said it didn't happen that way. >> that statement was partially accurate, but the terms trapped and dramaticked were used. these were not descriptors that i would have used in connection with that particular press release. >> and he's being held there. he can't free himself. >> reporter: harmon-wright's attorney says it's true he wasn't dragged. he says it was his hand that was caught in the window and that he'd stepped up onto the running board as cook started
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to drive away. >> there's another thing. i keep hearing the woman was unarmed. she's driving a vehicle that wees about 4,000 pounds and she's going -- weighs 4,000 pounds and she's going between 5 and 10 mills an hour that. has more kinetic energy than a bullet. railroad harmon-wright's mother is also charged -- >> reporter: harmon-wright's mother is also charged with foreigning documents in her son's personnel file. >> after the interview still had the look of rage. >> reporter: jeannette price wonders if her complaint against harmon-wright could have been altered. this is a hospital record showing an injury to her wrist that she said she suffered when harmon-wright pushed her in 2008. >> that was peggy fox reporting. coming up maryland becomes the first state in the country to propose a statewide ban on bumpers. >> but first how to get out and
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soon some d.c. playgrounds will shine a little brighter.
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today mayor vincent gray and some other local leaders announced the beginning of a playground improvement project. about 9 million bucks has been allotted for the work and some playgrounds in shaw, columbia heights and chevy chase has already seen themselves renovated. the next step, figuring out which other playgrounds are most in need of repair. as topper just told us, this weekend's weather could make it perfect to go play in a park and many state and national parks are waiving admission fees tomorrow. you can get in free. it's a celebration for national get outdoors day. nationwide more than 130 special events are planned tomorrow and they include appearances by smoky the bear. still to come a local church takes a progressive approach to battling obesity in maryland and especially in one hard hit county. >> also ahead when it comes to cheating on your taxes, a woman in oregon allegedly went big time. find out just how big. >> but first why the national federation of the blind says
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the goodwill organization is not living up to its own name. 9news continues right after the break.
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one of the most well known nonprofits in the world is paying some disabled employees less than minimum wage. the national federation of the blind is urging a boycott of goodwill to hopefully get them to stop this practice. kristin fisher has been following this. less than minimum wage, is this legal? >> believe it or not, what goodwill is doing is perfectly
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legal. there is this little known provision in the fair labor standards act that allows certain organizations to pay employees with disabilities less than minimum wage. in some cases just $1 an hour. now the national federation of the blind has been trying to change this for years. now they're going after goodwill in hopes that other nonprofits will follow suit. >> this is simply unfair, discriminatory and immoral. >> reporter: neil lewis and his organization, the national federation of the blind, filed a freedom of information act request to get these documents. this is goodwill's certificate from the u.s. department of labor that authorizes special minimum wage rates for workers with disabilities. >> the thing that's so very frustrating for me is that the reason this whole law exists is because peep don't believe that blind people or people with other disabilities have the capacity to participate in the workforce. >> reporter: at a goodwill location in heinzville, georgia, one worker who is deaf makes just $1.44 an hour. >> the irony is that the ceo of
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goodwill industries is a blind person. he has benefited from our particular efforts in touting to the world that blind people have capacity to the tune of making over half a million dollars a year and this blind ceo of goodwill industries, i don't know how he reconciles paying other people with disabilities less than minimum wage. that is hypocrisy to me. >> reporter: so o'neil and a few colleagues drove down to goodwill head quarterrers to try to talk to this c -- headquarters to try to talk to his ceo. >> he's not available right now. >> we've left a couple messages. >> reporter: they walk out with no answers. >> we have attempted to have a meeting and unfortunately, i don't know why, they have chosen not to meet with us. people say they have something to hide. maybe they're afraid our argument is too strong. i don't know what the reason is. maybe you can get an answer for us. >> i tried. i was denied an interview, but i did get a statement.
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it reads, "goodwill supports changes in the fair labor standards act so long as the right of people with disabilities to maintain employment of their choice is preserved. the special minimum wage certificate in question enables goodwill and thousands of other employers to provide opportunities for people with severe disabilities who otherwise might not be part of the workforce." goodwill says they have 64 disabled employees that make less than minimum wage, but none of those employees work here at the local goodwill of greater washington. i should also point out that goodwill is not alone. there are several nonprofits across the country that use this little known provision. >> again that, does employ more people, but what the level and what fairness is the question? >> exactly. there's a lot of things that need to be flushed out with this. >> this boycott is bringing this all to light. >> that's what they're trying to do. >> thank you. maryland same sex marriage law is all but certain to be heading for a voter referendum in the fall. late yesterday the state board of elections release an
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unofficial count of the verified signatures on the petitions to get the law put to a vote. so far election officials have validated more than 70,000 of those signatures. that's about 15,000 more than they needed. a final certified count will come later this summer. on capitol hill residence leaders gathered today for the stand up for residence freedom rally. pro life advocates preached a change of leadership as they protested the obamacare mandate which requires employers and religious institutions to pay for abortion inducing drugs and other services that many christians are opposed to. >> and barack obama has become the abortion president. we have one choice as a nation. we have to change presidents. it is vital to everything that we hole dear is on the line. >> -- hold dear is on the line. >> one notable speaker at that rally virginia republican bob marshall who is a candidate for the virginia senate seat. a dangerous strain of e. coli is spreading through the south. the bacteria has caused 14
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cases of illness and one death. the cdc says the out break cause is a mystery. so this particular strain of e. coli has resulted in three hospitalizations and the death of a young child in new orleans. to protect yourself from any strain of e. coli wash your hand thoroughly after handling any raw meat or poultry. make sure the meat is cooked through and wash all raw produce well with soap and water. as we all know, obesity is an epidemic in this nation. how do you fight it? how about at the grassroot level? a local church is taking an aggressive stance to improve overall health in prince george's county where obesity rates are among the highest in the state of maryland. in a recent conference on health here in d.c. aptly called the weight of the nation, experts noted by the year 2030 42% of all americans could be obese if current trends continue. >> that's an alarming statistic for which we must get ahead of or we're looking at a generation that will not
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survive its parents. >> nutritionist and author rovina brock spreads her healthy living technics nationwide. dr. roe says drastic lifestyle changes are needed to slow this epidemic which lead to other major health problems. >> heart disease, hypertension, many forms of cancer. >> dr. roe is here in foreign -- here in prince george's county as part of the health and fitness expo. it has more than 70 vendors. more than 40 different screenings will be available for free including screenings for prostate and breast cancer, hiv, high blood pressure and cholesterol. >> this event is to empower our community and to eliminate the health risks among the prince george's county residents. >> reporter: organizers are featuring a farmers market to help expand and encourage new trish food options. >> we hope that they will get
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enlightened and change their lifestyle. >> for them to come together to do such important work at a time when people need it most, kudos to them and i'm really honored to be a part of it. >> kudos to them. the screenings at the health and fitness expo free to anyone who comes. the event is at first baptist church of glenarden tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. crib bumpers may soon be a thing of the past in maryland. the first ever statewide ban has been proposed. it says the pads pose unreasonable risk of suffocation and strangulation to infants and have been implicated in sids cases. if approved the ban would take effect june 21st next year. it would not apply to vertical bumpers or mesh liners. the public has until august 13th to weigh in on the proposed ban. an oregon woman is under arrest tonight accused of cheating the state out of more than $2 million. police say crystal ray did that by filing a fraudulent tax return using turbo tax.
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they say she reported earnings of $3 million to the state but then claimed a refund of just over 2 million. she was given a visa debit card for that refund amount. investigators only discovered the false return when she reported the debit card had been stolen or lost but by then she'd spent over $150,000. a local man gets ready to celebrate his first father's day while also being cancer free. >> also ahead wait till you hear what triggered this car crash. big hint? the woman behind the wheel said she really, really needed to go. >> oh, bad. don't forget we're always on at www.wusa9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. x
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three family members in san antonio got the surprise of their lives this week when a car literally came crashing into their house. turns out the drive desperately needed to go to the -- the drive desperately needed to go -- the driver desperately needed to go to the bathroom. the car jumped the curb and hit a house, knocked down the bedroom wall where a man was sleeping inside at the time. amazingly no one is hurt. if your kid is addicted to the video game angry birds, you
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may want to cover their ears for this story or you might be buying a ticket to finland. >> that's because the first officially licensed angry birdsland theme park opened today in finland, yup, an entire park based on angry birds. that's a stretch. it has 12 rides and attractions inspired by the game plus an adventure course, a shop, snack food stands and plenty of souvenirs. the developer hope the park is the first of many to be built around the world. still ahead tonight d.c. shakes up the way it will declare a champion when it comes to high school football. >> but first from rats to roaches, the restaurants 9 wants you to know about next.
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on the menu tonight some restaurants you may want to cross off your list. our kitchen at the station is pretty spic and span but we
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found some that are a little unsavory with mice, rats, roaches, investigative reporter russ ptacek with this week's report. >> tonight we've got violations in the district and montgomery, fairfax and prince george's counties. you'll see some where you'd least expect. just off dupont circle on connecticut avenue northwest the white tablecloths at the downstairs city lights of china are now upstaged by the food world's scarlet letter. this closure notification cited unsanitary conditions that may endanger public health. inside city lights of china the walls are plastered with glowing tributes from washingtonian magazine. the problems health inspectors found inside fill up three pages of this report. inside a strong odor of rodents and signs of mice and roaches throughout the food prep area and unclean conditions including floors with dirt, grease, rodent droppings, food particles, utensils and standing water. >> it's disgusting. not good. >> i know it's sad and so i
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guess it ought to be shut until they clean it up. >> reporter: they did clean and it passed reinspection, as did the shake shack down the street in northwest which was closed for operating without running water. in fairfax tippy's taco house on lee highway was shut down saying the person in charge wasn't certified in food safety in. takoma park inspectors blamed no hot water. in d.c. vermin shut down may hock indian restaurant on seventh street northwest and at china american inn officials suspended the restaurant on upshire street northwest not only for operating without hot water but because of rat. the report cites a live rat that ran down the stairs during the inspection. in temple hills officials closed the evergreen supermarket on iverson street for a rodent infestation. we snapped photos of what a store employee agreed appeared to be mouse droppings and a chewed up bag.
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finally in bethesda more white tablecloths at a restaurant listed as one of washington's best, the vino cafe and lounge on wisconsin avenue. inspectors suspended them, too citing a severe cockroach infestation. in prince george's county officials shut down five unlicensed roadside vendors except for those, all the establishments passing reinspections and are now back in business. you want to be the first to know about closures, follow me on twitter or facebook. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek, 9 news now. >> all right, top? >> great weekend, gorgeous, summer-like. >> love it. we've had such a nice spring, you know. it's just been gorgeous. >> except for june 1st every day has been below average. that's kind of nice. here's the deal. it's going to warm up, but it won't be humid tomorrow. it will be a little more humid sunday but certainly bearable. i think even derek will give this a double thumbs up. >> that's hard to get from d. >> let's look outside, our live weather cam brought to you by
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michael and son. it's just wonderful. temperature 85, dew point in the 40s, everything is good. it will be comfortable at night. dry air masses, relative humidity 28%, heat up quickly and they cool off quickly. that's the good thing. it will be warm during the day, but because it's dry, we'll be able to perspire that. evaporates and that cools us. waves a foot or less, a great weekend to be on the water, no threat of storms and winds well under small craft advisory criteria, sunday sunshine, 82 to 87. to the beaches, still nice but cooler this weekend, 75 to 80 saturday with sunshine. you going to get groceries inland you'll be in the low to mid-80s. by sunday 78 to 82. we're looking at winds out of the southwest at 10, water temperature a bit chilly in the low to mid-60s, but if you get groceries sunday, it will be in the mid- to upper 80s inland.
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temperatures for us now, 84 college park, 81 bethesda, 84 also in rockville, low 80s in great falls, 82 leesburg. looking at low 80s down toward manassas and 83 in springfield and davidsonville, low 80s toward annapolis. here's the deal. gorgeous weekend, comfortable tonight. open the windows. grab your shades for saturday, not humid saturday. so keep the kids hydrated at the games. if there's any kind of games going on, the kids will feel comfortable because their perspiration is evaporating because they're cooling, but we're not getting water back in our systems. open the windows tonight, 55 to 65, winds out of the west, northwest at 10. tomorrow morning, mostly sunny, pleasant accident 60s and 70s, west, north -- pleasant, 60s and 70 s, west, northwest wind at 10. by sunday almost hot, low humidity, high near 90,
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westerly wind at 10. let's break it down. in the morning 55 to 65, 82 to 86 by noon, 87 to 91 by evening, hot but not humid. the next three days we'll go green, green and code yellow for monday because of afternoon storms, 89 tomorrow, 90 sunday, back in the upper 80s monday. next seven days thunderstorm possible monday and tuesday, a much better chance of storms, though, wednesday with a coiled front, mid-80s and behind the -- cold front, mid-80s and behind the cold front sunshine returns and temperatures in the mid-80s thursday and friday. so enjoy, safe for all outdoor activities. >> love it when it's code green through the whole weekend. the rules are changing for sports throughout the district. >> dave owens is here to telluses in this week's high school sports report -- tell us why in this week's high school sports report. >> in 42 years the district has determined its football championship one way, top four public schools in a playoff
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culminating with the turkey bowl. charter schools and independent private schools want a piece of the action. as beer are about reports, they'll get their chance -- as kristen berset reports, they'll get their chance. >> reporter: this fall d.c. will name its first state champion in football. that's right, i said state champion. >> i'm excited. it's a big deal. >> reporter: the creation of the statewide athletic association lays the fine addition for inclusion of the city's best charter fool -- the foundation for the inclusion of the city's best charter schools. >> it's not just about football. it's also about other sports as well and we want to make sure we observe gender equity. >> reporter: boys and girls soccer and cross-country will crown a state champion at the conclusion of their seasons, but the real hope of the merger is to bring legitimacy and raise the national profile of the district's student athletes. >> there's a lot of coaches doing great things and putting together some phenomenal teams and that's great for the city and that needs to be seen on a
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national level. >> i think it's an exciting thing for our coaches to have to continue and go on and compete for the state championships with cross- country and with soccer as well. >> now it gives gus to work harder for, more for us -- gives us something to work harder for, more for to us strive for. >> reporter: some area coaches are concerned the new league might have trouble policing itself. >> it's not going to all come together that easily, so just to jump and put something together just to appease some people right now, i don't know if that's the best thing in the long run. >> reporter: it will be the job of clark ray and the newly formed state athletic association to maintain an even playing field. kristen berset, 9 sports now. >> you heard kristen talk about eligibility standards. the office of the state superintendent will be overseeing age requirements, something several d.c. coaches say needs to be standardized between the various entities and again not just football. you heard k.b. say there, this new format goes
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into effect for soccer and cross-country as well in the fall. >> dave owens, thank you. still to come, local cases of corruption are making a difficult job harder for the folks supporting d.c. statehood. >> reporter: the controversy over these speed cameras, safety versus a moneymaker, what you can do about it. i'm surae chinn with that story coming up. >> but first tomorrow is the 9th of the month and june buddy check reminder is one for the guys in our lives.
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okay. so tomorrow is the 9th of month the and we want to remind you call your buddy and with father's day coming up next weekend we also want to remind you that in rare cases men can get breast cancer. andrea roane introduces us to william brown who will be spending that sunday with his eight children, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. ♪bernadette, wanda, maria and a neat arc that's the way they were born -- anita, that's the way they were born. >> reporter: william brown feels blessed every day but especially on fathers day. he's extremely proud of the four sons and four daughters he raised with his beloved wife of 63 years, mary. >> i get emotional when i think about her. she's the best wife a man could have had. >> reporter: the 86-year-old
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state department and cancer institute retiree spends lots of time fishing on the chesapeake at cape cod or here volunteering at our lady of perpetual health catholic church. >> i'm not one to sit home. i'm gone. he's going to have to catch up with me. >> reporter: every tuesday for nearly 20 years william arrives early at the parish hall to help cook lunch for 75 seniors. >> just about ready. >> reporter: their friends and neighbors who come to line dance and eat good food. >> i know it's going to be tasty. thank you. >> reporter: he's only missed a couple of days, but not when he was diagnosed and treated for cancer, invasive septal carcinoma breast cancer. were you aware men could get breast cancer? >> it never crossed my mind. >> reporter: breast cancer is less common in men, but about 2,100 new cases will be diagnosed this year and about
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400 men will die from breast cancer. >> they're not accustomed to thinking about examining their breasts and don't do self- examinations. >> reporter: dr. robert warren is codirector of the breast health center at lombardi and mr. brown's surgeon. >> men are often diagnosed with larger leagues in later stages than women because they aren't -- lesions in later stages than women because they aren't getting examined. >> reporter: in williams case he felt the lump for 12 years. >> it got somewhat large and i just told them we're going to have to do something soon. >> reporter: luckily william's tumor was very slow growing. >> you look great, no lumps or bumps. >> reporter: he had a mastectomy. his lymph nodes were clear and the cancer of estrogen receptor positive. now he's on the drug tamoxifen. >> he'll take the tamoxifen for five years to reduce his risk of developing recurrent breast cancer. >> reporter: giving mr. brown a lot more time to enjoy life. andrea roane, 9 news now.
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>> so let's talk about the risk factors for male breast cancer. they include growing older, high estrogen levels in guys, radiation exposure, especially in adolescence, something called klinefelter syndrome, having an extra copy of the x chromosome, a strong family history or presence of the gene mutation. you want to see this story again, go to www.wusa9.com and click on our morning show page. this is 9 news now. i have not stolen or either improperly used any public money. >> today kwame brown appeared in court not once, but twice. the former chair of the d.c. council entered pleas to local and federal charges, guilty pleas, as a matter of fact. our bruce johnson was in both courtrooms and joins us live now with more on how it all went down today. >> we knew it was coming, still an incredible shock to the system. across the board prosecutors say they took kwame brown down on bank fraud and campaign finance charges because they say he wasn't fit

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