garvin was the general manager of langston golf course and was on the board of langston and the 21st century foundation, a nonprofit organization that operated youth programs here. the charge against james garvin is misprison of a felony, con sealing the theft of federal grant money n 2008, langston 21 received $392,000 for youth programs and most of that money, $306,000, went to thomas. on january 13th, marshall banks, the founder around director of langston 21 and a howard university professor, pled guilty to the same charge. garvin has pledged to cooperate with investigators. he had no comment as he left the federal courthouse in washington. his lawyer indicates garvin wants to speak when it's appropriate. >> once we get past where we are right now, we will have a lot to say about that and i think it will be very illuminating. >> reporter: dorothy brazil is an activist who monitors d.c. government activities, she is worried about the impact? having on youngsters. >> what are we saying to young people when, you know, we tell them to stay in school, tell them not to like tell them n

gar vichbs the general manager of langston golf course and severed on the board of langston and the 21st century foundation, a nonprofit organization that operated youth programs. garvin is charged with concealing the theft of federal grant money. on january 13th, marshall banks, the founder and director of langston 21 and a howard university professor, pleaded guilty to the same charge. in 2008, langston 21 received $392,000 for youth program. most of the money, $360,000, went to thomas' organization, team thomas and hlt development. everyone here at langston golf course knows garvin as jimmy, he was well liked but golfers won't talk about him on camera while his case pending. lawyers say garvin will speak when the timing is right. >> jimmy garvin is one-of-a-kind and he is a tremendous individual. as you probably know, he has never had any difficulty whatsoever. >> reporter: garvin confessed he passed hundreds of thousands of dollars through a nonprofiting ortion to former council member harry thomas jr., a source close to jimmy garvin says that he received not a single dime of that mo

he's the former board member for the nonprofit group langston 21 and general manager of langston golf course. garvin is accused of receiving tens of thousands of dollars in city grant funds and transferring them to thomas, who used them to fund his lavish lifestyle. if convicted, garvin faces up to three years in prison. last week the founder of the nonprofit marshall bank pled guilty to a similar charge. banks faces between six months and three years in prison. >>> a special election will be held on may 15 to fill the seat vacated by harry thomas jr. he resigned his ward 5 council seat earlier this month after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns. he faces more than three years in prison. he will be sentenced on may 3. >>> this weekend, expect delays on metro rail. metro is closing one metro rail station and single tracking on nearly every other line while crews do major track work. metro will close the medical center station on the red line. metro will offer free shuttle buses between bethesda and the grovner metro station

he's the former board member for langston 21 and general manager of langston golf course.arvin is accused of receiving tens of thousands of dollars in city grant funds and then transferring them to thomas who used them to fund his lavish lifestyle. if convicted, garvin faces up to three years in prison. last week the founder of the nonprofit marshall banks pled guilty to a similar charge. banks faceses between six month and three years in prison. >>> about a dozen websites are staging a protest. they're shutting down for 24 hours. protesting two anti-piracy bills under consideration in congress. wikipedia's english language version of its website and craigslist are dark today. google is also taking part. that website is not down, but it does have a black sensor bar over its headline. the websites are upset with the stop online piracy act and the protect intellectual property act. the bills are designed to crack down on sales of pirated u.s. products overseas. critics say it could hurt the technology industry and infringe on free speech rights. >>> this morning, secret serv

garden served as a general manager for langston golf course and a board member for langston 21. >> atl have a lot to say. >> reporter: garden and his attorney refused to get into any details twine former council member harry thomas and the money that thomas used to buy an suv, trips, clothes, and meals. court documents reveal that james garvin and dr. marshal banks both served on the board of directors for langston 21, an organization set up to help youth participate in sports. that is the same organization hairy thomas used to acquire grant money for his own pockets. >> and jimmy garvin is one of a time and is a tremendous individual, as you know. he's never had any difficulty whatsoever. and he isd first to get to work and the last to leave. >> reporter: mandy rereports dr. marshal banks and said this after the court appearance on friday. >> anyone who understands dr. banks and knows dr. banks and understands anything about the commitment, the children, the education, you understand that commitment is unwavering. >> reporter: at this point, no evidence was presented that garvin or b

centered at the historic langston gulf course in northeast where we're told that banks met harry thomassome years ago. >> anyone who understands dr. banks and knows dr. banks and understands anything about his commitment, the children to education, will understand that that commitment is unlabor be. >> reporter: in court, the professor admitted his foundation received hundreds of thousands in city grant money and at harry thomas' direction, funneled that money to corporations own boyd thomas for what he thought was a youth faithful program. when the doctor learned the council men was using the money for his own use, he never did anything about it. >> and that is a tragedy for the citizens of the district of columbia and it's very, very unfortunate. all the way around and i think mr. thomas probably on nose steps, took responsibility and has indicated to everybody with welling to listen he's truly story for what happened and we'll try to move forward from there. >> reporter: the attorney also represents james jimmy garvin, the general manager of the langston golf course who is expected t

garvin served as a general manager for langston golf course and a board member for lang ton 21. >> at appropriate time i'll have -- langston 21. >> at the appropriate time i'll have a lot to say much. reporter: garvin and his attorney refused to get into any details about the former council member harry thomas, jr. and the money used to buy an expensive suv, clothes and meals. the organization the money was supposed to go to was for youth sports, the same organization harry thomas used to acquire grant money for his own pockets. >> jimmy garvin is one of a kind. he's a tremendous individual. you probably know he's never had any difficulty whatsoever. he's the first one to get to work and the last one to leave. reporter: randy jamison also represents dr. marshall banks and said this after banks' court appearance on friday. >> anyone who understands doctor banks or knows dr. banks and understands anything about his commitment to children, to education will understand that that commitment is unwavering. reporter: at this point no evidence has been presented that garvin or banks took any

already the january 1788, langston smith, one of the important critics of the constitution in new york said to his profound amazement that people were speaking as if the constitution, as if it were written by god. how could this have happened? because it was so at odds with his experience and that of other americans in 1787 and 1788. in that period of the constitution was attacked rigorously. it was under fire. let me give you a couple extreme examples to make my point. there was the newspaper writer who in october 1787 said the constitution was the work of wealthy and ambitious spirit, conspirators. and nothing less than, and i quote, ladies and gentlemen, the most daring attempt to establish a despotic aristocracy, and the freemen of the world ever witnessed. and then on july 4, 1788, a group of anti-federalists in albany did what i suppose would be to us unthinkable. they celebrated the fourth of july by ceremonially burning a copy of the constitution along with the news of virginia's ratification. not as william lloyd garrison would later do because it was packed with slavery and a

garvin worked with a charity call the langston 21st century foundation and reportedly helped cover up thomas' theft of $300,000 in city money. the head of the foundation has already pleaded guilty to similar charges. >>> the man accused in three maryland home invasions is now back in the states. kevin ray was arrested in north carolina saturday morning. he was wanted for three attacks including hills on friday. he is now behind bars in montgomery county on a slew of charges including rape and assault. >>> an 8-year-old alexandria boy is dead this morning after he was hit by a car sunday afternoon. this happened on duke street near the 395 overpass when a car veered on to the right side of the road and hit a woman and her child. the boy died at the scene. his mother is in the hospital. the car continued down an embankment but the driver was not hurt. >>> far, no charges have been filed in this case. >>> the field vying for the republican presidential nomination just got smaller. campaign officials say jon huntsman will withdraw from the race and endorse mitt romney. huntsman finished t

but operates at langston golf course in northeast washington. but friday marshall banks walked from u.s. district court after pleading guilty to a felony charge of writing checks from his foundation to one controlled by harry thomas junior. the checks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and more. thomas pled guilty last week to two felony counts and will be sentenced in may and may receive four years in prison. banks attorney randy jameson described banks as a well meaning, law abiding citizen who got caught up in thomas's schemes and took no money for himself. >> i agree with the phrase "caught up." i think that is an appropriate way of putting it. >> reporter: banks is cooperating with prosecutors. he faces potentially three years in prison on his felony plea. but a sentencing date was not set. an indication he continues to cooperate. tom sherwood, news 4, washington. >> prosecutors say the investigation continues to determine whether other people played a part or role in thomas's scheme. >>> nbc news has learned that naval investigators ha

. >> reporter: in a business where perfection is the ideal, ryan langston has the look that sells. has down's syndrome. >> are you a star? >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> retailers like target and nordstrom are using ryan in their ads and catalogs. his appearance with kids his age has set the internet buzzing with encouragement from parents of other special needs children. >> hi. >> but ryan's biggest cheering section is at home led by parents amanda and jim. >> his little biker jacket and his hoodie. he's looks like he's going to go out driving his couple camaro, you know? >> reporter: he hangs out with his twin brother, ian. a minute older than ryan. >> he likes to rock out. >> ryan idolizes ian. born with a hole in his heart, ryan survived open heart surgery at 3 months old. >> where is june? >> right here. >> good. >> today he attends a school for down's syndrome children where his mainstream modeling is a point of pride. >> we all want to see who is like us. and i think that they're no different than anybody else. they want to see themselves included in the landscape that is, you

he's the former board member for the nonprofit group langston 21 and general manager of langston golf course. garvin is accused of receiving tens of thousands of dollars in city grant funds and then transferring them to thomas who used them to fund his lavish lifestyle. if convicted, garvin faces up to three years in prison. last week the founder of the nonprofit, marshall banks, pled guilty to a similar charge and faces between six months and three years in prison. >>> this morning, the secret service says that they did not arrest anyone after someone threw a smoke bomb over the north fence and on to the white house grounds. it happened last night as demonstrators from the occupy movement protested at the white house. people inside the white house were not allowed to leave on the pennsylvania avenue side of the building. president obama and first lady michelle obama were not at home at the time. they were at a nearby restaurant celebrating her 48th birthday. protesters marched from the supreme court to the capitol and ended up at the white house. the movement is protesting economic d

the nonprofit to encourage young people in sports and academics that operates at langston golf course in northeast washington. but friday marshall banks walked from u.s. district court after pleading guilty to a felony charge of writing checks from his foundation to one controlled by harry thomas jr. checks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and more. thomas pled guilty last week to two felony counts. he'll be sentenced in may and may receive four years in prison. banks' attorney randy jameson described him as a well meaning citizen who got caught up in thomas's schemes and took no money for himself. >> i agree with the phrase quota. i think it's an appropriate way of putting it. >> banks is cooperating with prosecutors. he faces potentially three years in prison on his felony plea. but a sentencing date was not set, an indication he continues to cooperate. tom sherwood, news 4, washington. >>> now in a statement after the bank's guilty plea today u.s. attorney ronald mate ron said the banks, quote, stood by while tomas stole the money. he said the case is a warning to others not

langston 21. he pleaded guilty friday. now both men face up to three years in prison after admitting their organization got four separate grants from the d.c. council and then kicked back 306,000 of that to then d.c. councilman harry thomas for his personal use. did your client benefit in any way from this scheme? >> again, what we have something to say, i'll make all the information available that is available to me. reporter: at the beginning of the new year harry thomas, jr. resigned from the ward 5 council seat, then pleaded guilty to two felonies of stealing from youth programs. our sources say prosecutors still have cases against two people who are on harry thomas, jr.'s staff. their actions are detailed in court documents and there's somebody else who headed up one of those nonprofits, all three have lawyers. dorothy brizill, civic actor and founder of d.c. watch. >> we try to tell the kids to do the right thing, not lie, not steal and to go to school and here their role models are being indicted. reporter: harry th

garvin served on the board of directors for langston 21. that is the same úorganization thomas used to acquire grant money for his own pocket. garvin faces up to three years in prison. >>> listen up, folks. a big announcement coming from apple today. the company is going to reveal the big plans from the guggenheim museum in new york. no one with apple is talking but this is not expected to be a new gadget upgrade. many believe the company will leap into the next book industry. we'll find out this morning coming up at 10:00 what the big secret is. >>> the cofounder of yahoo, jerry yang, has resigned. he abruptly quit the company he started back in 1995. it might be a move to apiece shareholders. they were upset over his handling ever the company. in after hours trading, yahoo shares rose 5% on the news. >>> all web sites that participated in yesterday's blackout went back online early this morning. wikipedia had been shut down for the past 24 hours protesting against anti-piracy laws being considered in congress. some democratic and republic

he works with a charity called the langston 21st century foundation and reportedly helped cover up thomas' theft of $300,000 of city money. the head of the foundation has already pleaded guilty to similar charges. >>> the man accused in three maryland home unvisions is now back in the state. kevin ray was arrested in north carolina saturday morning. he was wanted for three attacks including one in temple hills on friday. the 33-year-old is now behind bars in montgomery county on a slew of charges including rape and assault. >>> two women from virginia and maryland are heading home after surviving friday night's deadly cruise ship crash. karen kennedy from virginia beach and vivian schaefer from gaithersburg were among the 120 americans aboard when it hit a reef. about 4200 people were on board the ship hoping to soon forget what they are calling an unorganized chaotic evacuation. >> i couldn't believe it. i was telling her, it's not going to sink. it's 2012. >> keep praying the whole time for somebody to come and rescue us. i thought i was going to die. nobody was saying anything to us. >

garvin is a golf pro at langston golf course. he's the third person charged in the alleged scheme. >>> the special election to fill the ward five seat will be held may 15th. the district's board of elections met yesterday to certify the vacancy and set the date. it will be an open election with candidates of any party. the winner will serve out the remainder of thomas' term which goes to 2014. >>> coming up, at 6:07, just about. a consumer alert for you. your water bill could be going up soon. the wssc is proposing a 7.5% rate hike to water and sewer fees which would affect all of the utilities customers in montgomerys and prince george's county counties. if it is approved, it would mean another $5 a month for the average customer. some money will go forward improvement projects. other money will give a cost of living race to wssc workers. >> more of us are driving cars a decade old or older. i would be one of those people. the average age of the cars on the roads hit 11 years and one month. trucks are a few months younger. exper

james garvin worked with the langston 21st century foundation and reportedly helped cover up thomas'e to steal $300,000 in city funds. garvin's attorney said his client will sign a plea deal this week. the head of the foundation pled guilty to similar charges last week. >>> tonight on the news edge at 11:00 a terrifying ordeal on a luxury cruise ship. tonight as the ship lays on its side and crews still search for the missing, is the industry in trouble? >>> plus we'll tell you how to get in on that social industry site everybody is talking about so that you can get a piece of the profits coming up on the news edge at 11:00. the word is swapportunity. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calories. do the swap today. >>> gas prices have shot up to historic

garvin is the general manager at langston golf course in northeast washington. >> we are coming up on 5:05. it is time now for the latest "your money" report. the lovely jessica doyle is here with today's headlines. >> good morning to both of you. wall street, don't look right now but it is looking pretty good. fingers crossed. i don't want to jinx things here. stocks this morning from the highest level since july. the market jumped yesterday on news the confidence among u.s. homebuilders rose in january to the highest level in more than four years. stocks also liking news the imf is proposing to raise its lending capacity by as much as $500 billion which means it could offer new loans to troubled european countries. could help the eu situation. checking the numbers, the dow stands at 12,578. it jumped nearly 97 points in trading yesterday. nasdaq up by 41 and the s&p 500 was better by 14 points. eastman kodak has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. it is looking for a buyer for its 1100 digital imaging patents. it said it would run out of cash in a year for which it would hop

garvin, a golf pro at langston golf course is the third person charged in the alleged scheme. >>> i confess, a quote from kevin ray, the man accused of a series of violent home invasions and assaults. ray admitted to detectives he invaded homes in montgomery and prince george's county. in temple hills friday, police say ray bound six victims including a child and sexually assaulted one person. police say just days earlier, he also tied up a family in bethesda and sexually assaulted their cleaning lady. officers found and arrested ray in kitty hawk, north carolina, this weekend. a judge ordered him to be held without bond. >>> an update now on the man accused of trying to assassinate president obama. a grand jury had formally charged oscar ramiro ortega hernandez with attempting to kill the president. police arrested him days after he allegedly fired up to a dozen shots at the white house on november 11th. during a december hearing, a judge order him held without bond. >>> it is 5:06. time for the latest "your money" report. >> jessica doyle is here with today's headlines. they're positive?

brem, 21 years old from dubuque, we've got alan franson from story city, iowa, wally brown, and ron langston from des moines. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> anybody change their minds since we last spoke to you? >> nope. >> no. >> you're truly undecided voters. i'll start with you. what are you waiting to hear? you've had 13 debates, the candidates have been here. what do you still need to know? >> they've all done a good job. one of the things that i've had my mind made up, i thought, and then i met someone tuesday, house speaker gingrich, and i thought i had made up my mind with he and romney, and now i've made some changes. >> what are the changes? >> i think the changes are that i've seen others come up the ladder. >> are you talking about santorum now? >> santorum, right? >> melissa, why? >> i feel like he connects with the american people and could understand what needs to be done and take care of it. >> alan, who are you leaning towards. you call yourself social conservative? >> yes, ma'am, social and fiscal conservative. i like pieces of all of them. bachmann ripping

james garvin is the former board member for the nonprofit group langua langston 21. lee received guilty to receiving tens of thousands of dollars in city funds and transferring them to thomas who used them to fund his lavish lifestyle. he will be sense tense order the 25th and faces three years in prison. the founder of the nonprofit last week pled guilty to similar charges. a special election will be held may 15 to fill the seat vacated by harry thomas jr. he resigned his seat earlier this month after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns. he faces more than three years in prison and will be sentenced on may 3rd. >>> d.c. police are making a plea to had find a mother who had a baby that was left in the cold and died. investigators say that mother may need medical attention. police say a man found the baby girl on the steps of a home on chanting in st. in northeast washington. the child did not have on any clothes and was only wrapped in a thin towel. the police are waiting for the medical examiner to determ

james garvin will sign a plea deal this week he worked with a charity called langston 21st century. the head of the foundation pleaded guilty to similar charges. >>> two women from virginia and maryland are heading home after surviving friday night's deadly cruise ship crash the women were among the 120 americans onboard the luxury liner, when it hit a reef and flipped on its side. so far six people are dead and dozens more still unaccounted for. the captain of the ship is under fire for his role in the or deal accused of abandoning the ship before everyone was evacuated safely. >>> a major shake up in the race for the republican nomination, john happensman is out. doug luzader has a look what is next for remaining candidates. >> we expect john huntsman to drop out of the race for president and formerly endorse mitt romney. >> i would say third place is a ticket to ride ladies and gentlemen. >>> the ride didn't last long. john huntsman never got his footing in the race for president, he essentially bypassed iowa counting on a strong showing in new hampshire but third place there did