Law_Crime

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Former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown leaves federal court in Washington on Tuesday after being sentenced to one day in custody and six months of home detention for lying on loan applications. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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"We recognize that it's a painstaking, complicated investigation and they’ll get to a conclusion when they get to it," Mayor Vincent C. Gray said of the probe at his press briefing on Wednesday. The federal investigation into Mr. Gray’s mayoral run resulted in guilty pleas from three aides to the campaign. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rita Crundwell, the former comptroller of Dixon, Ill., pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in federal court Wednesday. Crundwell embezzled more than $50 million from her small town to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a nationally known horse-breeding operation. Her sentencing hearing is Feb. 14. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Murder suspect Pedro Hernandez is seen here in May 2012. Attorney Harvey Fishbein says Hernandez, 51, is being charged in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. Hernandez, of Maple Shade, N.J., was arrested this year and investigators say he confessed. (Associated Press)

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FBI agents carry boxes and a computer from the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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FBI agents carry boxes and a computer from the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks Nov. 13, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa, during the investiture of Stephanie Rose, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. (Associated Press)

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Thierry Tilly, who was sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Bordeaux, France, on Tuesday, was convicted of used manipulation techniques over nine years to swindle an aristocratic family of 11. (Associated Press)

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Former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown is released from federal court after being sentenced to one day in custody and six months of home detention for lying on loan applications, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 13, 2012. Brown was also found guilty on a misdemeanor campaign finance violation in Superior Court Judge earlier in the day but will not face jail time on that charge as long as he stays out of trouble. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)