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White House social media director Dan Scavino violated the law when he used an official-looking Twitter account for campaign purposes, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has concluded, issuing Scavino a letter of admonishment.
The agency concluded that Scavino, one of President Trump’s most trusted aides, violated the Hatch Act, which bars most executive branch officials from using their government positions to influence elections.
Chelsea Manning believed she had a “responsibility to the public” and didn’t think she was risking national security when she leaked a trove of classified documents, the soldier said in her first interview since being released from a military prison last month.
The 29-year-old formerly known as Bradley Manning said in an interview broadcast Friday on ABC that she was prompted to give the 700,000 military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks because of the human toll of the “death, destruction and mayhem” she saw as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq.
3 Bribery case: A contracting representative for the U.S. Army has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to a federal bribery charge involving fraudulent invoices submitted by South Korean contractors.
After 26 years on the lam, a man dubbed by investigators as one of Miami’s last “cocaine cowboys” pleaded not guilty Friday to decades-old drug trafficking charges that could land him in prison for life.