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The conservative blogger who first broke the Anthony Weiner scandal revealed today he has an X-rated picture of the shamed congressman - and will release it if the Democrat attempts reprisals against him. Andrew Breitbart admitted he considers the image an 'insurance policy' against any future 'jihad' from the congressman, and claimed he could have ended Mr Weiner's career if he had chosen to publish it previously. The political commentator dramatically stole the show at Mr Weiner's press conference yesterday, hijacking it just before the disgraced politician was due to appear. Insurance policy: In an appearance on the Today show...

... and thus began a whirlwind of sensationalist media coverage the likes of which we had never seen before. R.I.P., Chandra.

WASHINGTON—The Salvadoran convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy nearly a decade ago was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison. In November, a jury convicted Ingmar Guandique of first-degree murder in Ms. Levy's 2001 disappearance and death, despite a lack of witnesses and no DNA evidence linking him to the crime.

WASHINGTON -- Chandra Levy was murdered, by means unknown, the Washington D.C. medical examiner said today in a disclosure that deepened the mystery behind the demise of the 24-year-old intern who disappeared more than a year ago. "There is insufficient evidence" to establish a precise cause of death, Jonathan L. Arden told a news conference. He said he had not ruled in or out potential causes of death, strangulation among them. He also said he could not determine whether the young woman died where her skeletonized remains were found, or if she had been brought there after her death. Arden...

DEVELOPING: A jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a man accused of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy, MyFoxDC.com reports. Ingmar Guandique is charged with murder in Levy's death nearly a decade ago. Levy disappeared in 2001. Her case drew attention when she was romantically linked to then-Congressman Gary Condit. The California Democrat was initially a suspect but police no longer think he was involved. Prosecutors say Levy's death fits a pattern of attacks by Guandique in 2001 in Washington's Rock Creek Park. That's where her remains were found. Defense lawyers say the Salvadoran immigrant has become a...

If one person is associated with the mysterious slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy, it isn't the man who will soon be tried on charges he murdered her. It's former California congressman Gary Condit, whose political career imploded after he was romantically linked to the woman and became the No. 1 suspect. Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, goes on trial Monday for Levy's 2001 killing.

Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977–ca. May 1, 2001) was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001 and is presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park in May 2002. The investigation led to media allegations of an extramarital affair with then-U.S. Representative Gary Condit,[1] a Democrat representing California's 18th congressional district and a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Condit was never named a suspect by police and was ultimately cleared of involvement, however the cloud of suspicion raised by the...

Federal prosecutors in the Chandra Levy murder case told a D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday that they plan to file additional charges against Levy's accused killer, Ingmar Guandique ... Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told the judge his office plans to file a superseding indictment within the next few weeks and has scheduled a new arraignment for Guandique for Dec. 15. After the hearing, Campoamor declined to name the new charges. But in a court filing earlier this summer, prosecutors said they found at least one other person who claims to have been attacked by a man fitting Guandique's...

On Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fernando Campoamor told a judge in D.C Superior Court that accused murderer and gang member Ingmar Guandique, 28, along with members of the MS-13 gang threatened to kill a witness and his family, if he testifies at Guandique’s January trial.A Salvadoran national in this country illegally, Guandique was arrested last April for the murder of missing intern Chandra Levy, who disappeared in 2001. Her skeletal remains were discovered a year later in D.C.’s Rock Creek Park.At the time of his arrest for the Levy murder, he was already in prison for the assault of two...

The attorneys representing Ingmar Guandique told a D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday that they believe that Chandra Levy was killed somewhere other than Rock Creek Park, where the former congressional intern's remains were found.

It was just one line at the end of a segment. But it spoke volumes about the way a media willing to look the other way saved Ted Kennedy's political career at the time of Chappaquiddick. Jim Pinkerton made the observation on yesterday's Fox News Watch at the very end of the segment on the media's treatment of Kennedy's death. View video here.

The suspect in the slaying of intern Chandra Levy has been charged with first-degree murder in D.C. Ingmar Guandique was brought Wednesday afternoon to the police department's violent crimes branch for booking ahead of his initial court appearance, which is expected the next day. Until then, he'll be returned to the D.C. jail.

The dreaded "i-word" is not part of the mainstream media lexicon these days. Most coverage does not use "illegal immigrant" or "illegal alien" to describe the suspect in the Levy case.

The D.C. Police Department announced that illegal alien Ingmar Guandique will be charged with the 2001 murder of 24-year-old congressional intern Chandra Levy. Even now the MSM refuse to acknowledge that Guandique is in the country illegally. Guandique is reportedly an illegal alien member of MS-13 who worked as a day laborer. He has an existing criminal record and is currently serving TWO concurrent 10-year sentences for attacking two other women at knifepoint in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park - where Levy's body was found - around the time of Levy's disappearance. Guandique's background serves as an important reminder that lax...

Police on Tuesday obtained an arrest warrant for El Salvadoran immigrant Ingmar Guandique for the 2001 killing of Modesto's Chandra Levy, opening a dramatic new chapter in one of the nation’s most enduring murder mysteries.

WASHINGTON (AP) - An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for an imprisoned Salvadoran immigrant in the killing of federal intern Chandra Levy, nearly eight years after the case captivated the nation's capital and ended the career of a congressman. The warrant accuses Ingmar Guandique (gwan-DEE'-kay) of killing Levy on May 1, 2001, as she walked her dog through Washington's Rock Creek Park, said U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor. Guandique, 27, is already serving time in a federal prison in Adelanto, Calif., for attacking two women in the same park.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Since Washington intern Chandra Levy disappeared in 2001, one name had been familiar: Gary Condit, the former congressman who was questioned by authorities in her disappearance. But a man named Ingmar Guandique was never far away. The Salvadoran immigrant lived in an apartment near the park where Levy's remains were found. He's now serving time in federal prison for assaulting two female joggers there weeks after Levy disappeared. An arrest in the Levy case is imminent, and two people with knowledge of the case have told The Associated Press that Guandique will be charged.

This past weekend, the mainstream news media were breathlessly reporting that an arrest of a Salvadorian immigrant for killing a young Washington, DC woman named Chandra Levy is imminent. The case originally received so much media attention that she became a household name. While the media continue their fascination with this case, they have -- for the most part -- failed to identify the suspect as an illegal alien already locked up in prison for previous attacks on American women, preferring to call him an immigrant or a Salvadorian National.

The case gripped the nation's capital, and the nation, through the summer of 2001. A 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern named Chandra Levy's disappearance sparked a media frenzy that thrust the obscure Democratic California Rep. Gary Condit into the national spotlight amid speculation over whether he had a role in her disappearance. Her story, at the time, was soon eclipsed by the terror attacks of Sept. 11. Now the woman's murder is grabbing national headlines again after news broke that police are poised to arrest California prison inmate Ingmar Guandique in one of the country's most prominent, but nearly forgotten,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators in the 2001 slaying of Chandra Levy have prepared an arrest warrant for a Salvadorian immigrant convicted of similar attacks in the park where the former intern disappeared, a person close to the investigation said Saturday. The person told The Associated Press that Ingmar Guandique's arrest is imminent and an official announcement is expected soon. The source was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

While D.C. police focused most of their investigative efforts on Rep. Gary Condit and his relationship to missing intern Chandra Levy, they were slow to recognize another lead. It involved a man who was attacking women in the woods of Rock Creek Park. The day Chandra disappeared, May 1, 2001, Ingmar A. Guandique, a 19-year-old illegal Salvadoran immigrant, did not show up for his construction job. Around that time, he went to stay with his former landlady, Sheila Phillips Cruz, the manager of an apartment building on Somerset Place NW. Cruz noticed that Guandique looked like he had been in...

(02-21) 08:12 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- An arrest may be near in the nearly decade-old slaying of federal intern Chandra Levy, whose disappearance in 2001 ended Gary Condit's congressional career, several television stations reported. The California Democrat was romantically linked to Levy, but was not considered a suspect in her death or disappearance. Television stations, KFSN and KCRA in California and WRC in Washington, D.C., reported that police were seeking an arrest warrant. Levy's parents said Friday outside their Modesto, Calif., home that police called them and told them an arrest was near. "Your child is dead and gone and...

As soon as I heard the report on Good Morning America today describing a possible suspect in the murder of Chandra Levy as an “immigrant,” my antenna went up. So, was he a high-tech worker, here on a H-1B visa? Or perhaps a permanent resident, proud holder of a green card? Somehow I didn’t think so. It took all of 15 seconds to Google out this Washington Post article stating that the possible suspect, Ingmar A. Guandique, is an illegal immigrant. But GMA didn’t bother to mention that inconvenient fact. ABC’s Pierre Thomas narrated the segment, which began with Chandra’s...

Police are preparing to make an arrest in the murder of Congressional Intern Chandra Levy... ...an inmate in the D.C. corrections system has told other prisoners that he killed Levy after seeing her in the park where her body was found. The inmate is identified as Igman Andique. He is in jail for attacks on other women in that same park. The case has stumped police for years and ended the career of California Congressman Gary Condit after he was romantically linked to the 24-year-old from Modesto.

Seven years after Chandra Levy's remains were found in a Washington, D.C., park, a year-long investigation by the Washington Post offers evidence the congressional intern was murdered by an illegal alien. As suspicion mounted that Levy's boss, Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., might be involved in her disappearance, the case became front-page news in the summer of 2001. But with the Sept. 11 attacks, law enforcement personnel in the capital quickly turned their attention to the the nation's security, and Levy's case became a distant memory for the public. But the Post says that as authorities searched for Levy in Rock...

-snip- The Chandra Levy case is the most famous unsolved murder in modern Washington, a mystery involving sex, power and secrets. At its center is a vivacious young intern who had crossed paths with a handsome, married congressman. The story triggered months of feverish worldwide media attention in 2001, before the Sept. 11 attacks shoved it aside and the investigation stalled. The Washington Post spent a year reconstructing the disappearance of Chandra Levy and the investigation into her death. Reporters interviewed police officials, investigators and suspects, many for the first time, and obtained details about dozens of previously unknown private...

CNN is following four Bauder College students as they build their case files in the Chandra Levy and Natalee Holloway investigations. The Campus Crime Club is part of CNNU, which features student perspectives on news and trends from colleges across the United States. 1 of 3 ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls. The topic was Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern whose 2001 disappearance...

WASHINGTON -- Gary Condit's legal and financial travails just keep worsening. An Arizona judge has ordered the former Ceres congressman to pay $42,680.42 for filing a frivolous libel lawsuit. Condit's lawsuit against the tiny Sonoran News for a story referring to murder victim Chandra Levy amounted to harassment, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kristin Hoffman ruled this week. Condit's actions showed "he was aware the lawsuit should never have been brought," Hoffman added.

PHOENIX - A judge dismissed former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's defamation lawsuit against an Arizona newspaper that said the Democrat had lied to investigators about his relationship with a Washington intern who was later found dead. The Sonoran News, a weekly that describes itself as "The Conservative Voice of Arizona," had included the statement in a 2005 article about Condit's brother. Condit served 13 years in Congress before losing re-election in 2002 after the disappearance of the intern, Chandra Levy, whose remains were found in May 2002 in a Washington park. Condit denied involvement in Levy's disappearance and death. No...

I saw a lead in to this story on John Gibson's show but I was unable to watch it? What is the story?

Attorney Mark E. Goidell once represented rapper Sean Combs, known at the time as "Puffy." He defended a New York man convicted of double murder. He defended a woman who falsely accused a co-worker of sexually abusing mentally disabled patients. But he has decided to no longer represent former Rep. Gary Condit of Ceres. Goidell wants a federal judge to let him out of a defamation case he brought on Condit's behalf. Facing potential sanctions for filing an allegedly frivolous lawsuit against author Dominick Dunne, Goidell this week said the case never should have been brought. "The defamation claim in...

Bucking party leadership and most of her congressional colleagues, House Democratic Whip-elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Rep. Gary Condit for re-election -- a move that has "thrilled" the embattled incumbent but could spell headaches for Democrats. "I endorsed Gary for re-election a long time ago," Pelosi of San Francisco said in a statement released by her office yesterday. "However, I have not spoken to any member encouraging them to support Gary or to discourage them from supporting his opponent (state Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza)." She called the election "a matter between Gary and his constituents." With less than two months...

WASHINGTON — Susan Levy tried the tango. She rides horses. She exercises, furiously. She sings her heart out; and still, with the dawn, all distractions fall away and she comes back to remembering. "I wake up every morning," Susan said, "and the first thing I think is, 'My daughter isn't here.'" Chandra Levy was last seen in the nation's capital on April 30, 2001. Eventually, her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park. Investigators say they have identified a "person of interest," and they continue to conduct interviews, but her murder defies solution. What come unbidden now are ghostly...

The Chandra Levy Mystery: What happened ? Coincidence, random killings ?

Commission claims two misspent campaign funds.A state agency is suing former Rep. Gary Condit's children for $2.4 million because they allegedly misspent $226,000 in funds the congressman originally raised to advance his career. The Fair Political Practices Commission filed suit against Chad and Cadee Condit this week in Sacramento County Superior Court. The lawsuit says they enriched themselves with political action committee funds that should have been used for political, legislative or government purposes. The agency alleges they paid themselves $226,000 for work they were not qualified to undertake. It also says the two did not produce the services for...

Court Tv Cable Channel is having a special on the Chandra Levy murder case tonight at 9:30 EDT. They claim to have new details. Might be worth watching.

A swimmer has been attacked at Port St.John Beach/State Park in Florida by a shark. Beaches are closed down as of 12:30 PM EST. More to follow...

Former congressman Gary Condit takes the stand Monday in a defamation lawsuit against author Dominick Dunne. Condit is expected to have to answer, under oath, whether or not he had sex with Chandra Levy. Will anything be brought to light in this trial? We'll have more on "The Big Story Weekend."

Former U.S. Representative Gary Condit: I swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth….

Former California Rep. Gary Condit must answer embarrassing questions about his sex life with Chandra Levy and other women as part of his defamation suit against crime author Dominick Dunne, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Manhattan District Judge Peter Leisure also said Condit must disclose information about his personal finances as part of the discovery in the suit. [snip] Leisure said Condit couldn't have it both ways — sue Dunne and then prevent the defendants from cross-examining thoroughly for facts. "Unfortunately for plaintiff, he opened that door himself by filing this lawsuit," Leisure said. "The court cannot allow plaintiffs...

Fox has had a few clips on today, teasing a report tonight on Rita Cosby's show, about new info and possible resolution to the Chandra Levy murder. Apparently it involves a Defense Dept. employee that gave wild parties, and investigators questioned Gary Condit's driver about what he knew of that individual.

Judge dismisses libel suit by wife of former Calif. Rep. Condit Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed last year by the wife of former California Rep. Gary Condit against USA Today and its parent company, Gannett Co. U.S. District Judge Bruce Black ruled this week that there is no jurisdiction to hear the case in New Mexico. The lawsuit, filed in New Mexico because of state law that lets plaintiffs sue up to three years after a published report, was in response to a July 27, 2001 USA Today article about the...

Since I did not see this story here I will post it. (fair use) Levys open door for civil lawsuit By SUSAN HERENDEEN BEE STAFF WRITER Last Updated: June 19, 2004, 05:38:40 AM PDT Susan and Robert Levy may try to hold someone liable for their daughter's unsolved death, according to a petition to be considered Monday by a probate judge in Stanislaus County Superior Court. Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Washington, D.C., intern who was romantically linked to then-U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, did not have a last will and testament when she disappeared in May 2001. In a declaration, Susan...

Former Congressman's Defamation Suit Against Columnist Goes Forward Mark Hamblett New York Law Journal 04-28-2004 A federal judge has refused to dismiss a slander suit brought by former California Congressman Gary Condit for statements made by columnist Dominick Dunne about the disappearance and death of Chandra Levy. Southern District of New York Judge Peter K. Leisure said Tuesday that Condit has asserted enough facts to survive dismissal, based on comments Dunne made about the Levy case on three national talk shows and at dinner parties where he regaled guests with rumors concerning the congressman. "This action brings the Court to...

AP FRESNO, Calif. — The wife of former Rep. Gary Condit has settled her $10 million libel suit against the National Enquirer over a story that said she berated Chandra Levy days before the Washington intern disappeared. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The settlement was reached Wednesday. The lawsuit was brought over an Aug. 7, 2001, article that cited confidential police sources as saying Carolyn Condit "flew into a rage" during a telephone conversation with Levy. Carolyn Condit said she never spoke with or met Levy, whose skeletal remains were found in a Washington park in May...

By MICHAEL DOYLEBEE WASHINGTON BUREAUWASHINGTON -- There is an afterlife to every murder, especially Chandra Levy's. Almost a year after her remains were discovered in Rock Creek Park in the nation's capital, the investigation has long since gone cold. Other inquiries continue, and other lives go on, though shadowed by her disappearance. Here, the police chief is fighting a subpoena ordering his testimony in a libel case stemming from the Levy investigation. In California and New York City, big-dollar defamation lawsuits filed by former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit and his wife have put reputations on the line. And in Modesto,...

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The parents of Chandra Levy testified yesterday before a grand jury investigating the intern's death, a sign that the case is moving forward. Robert and Susan Levy of Modesto, Calif., made separate appearances before the grand jury and were asked questions about their daughter and Rep. Gary A. Condit (D-Calif.), according to a source familiar with the testimony. The parents spent much of the day with the D.C. Superior Court grand jury, which meets at the U.S. attorney's office. "We have to find out who has done this to my daughter," said Robert Levy. He declined to discuss his testimony,...

<p>Police detectives in the Chandra Levy murder case are focusing on a suspect initially discounted after he passed a polygraph test investigators now believe was flawed, the Washington Post reported Sunday.</p> <p>Ingmar Guandique, 21, has been in prison since July 2001 -- two months after the 24-year-old intern disappeared. He was imprisoned after being convicted of assaults on two female joggers in Washington's Rock Creek Park, the paper reported.</p>