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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...

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.

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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 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.

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...

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...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has thrown out former California Congressman Gary Condit's defamation lawsuit against author Dominick Dunne, extending the one-time lawmaker's costly courtroom losing streak over rumors of his relationship to murdered intern Chandra Levy. In a 22-page opinion issued Tuesday morning, U.S. District Judge Peter Leisure summarily dismissed Condit's suit and ruled the First Amendment as well as California law protected Dunne's expressions of opinion. The ruling further shrinks Condit's legal maneuvering room. "I'm just delighted," Dunne's attorney Paul LiCalsi said Tuesday. "This was an abusive lawsuit all along." (snip) The new ruling comes one year after...

Democrats for Boeing The truth about the tanker deal. by Christian Lowe 03/24/2008, Volume 013, Issue 27 It was one of those insider deals that give the defense industry a bad name, conjuring up images of smoke-filled negotiations between the brass and corporate fat cats in plush leather chairs. By the time it was over, two fat cats were in jail, a top Pentagon official had been forced to resign, a corporate CEO had lost his job, and the reputation of an iconic company that had served American troops for decades had suffered irreparable damage. Then it turned out it...

A group of criminal justice students at a small Atlanta college are preparing to launch their own investigation into the 2001 disappearance and slaying of Modesto resident Chandra Levy in Washington, D.C. Since 2005, students at Bauder College have sifted through old evidence and case files from unsolved crimes as part of the school's Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, according to institute director Sheryl McCollum. This year, Levy's homicide and the disappearance three years ago of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba are on their agenda.

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...

Although he is no longer an FBI agent, Brad Garrett still visits the steep, wooded hillside in a Washington, D.C., park where the skeletal remains of Chandra Levy, a federal intern from Modesto, were found five years ago this week, a year after she disappeared. No one has been charged in the killing of the 24-year-old, whose disappearance generated enormous publicity after authorities revealed that she had been having a relationship with her married hometown congressman, Gary Condit. Condit was defeated in 2002 by his former aide, Dennis Cardoza. Read more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/22/CHANDRA.TMP

It's True Crime Time and we've got some new and lots on older cases. We've got the, heh, "Barbi Bandits" and Tara Grant, whose body was found and whose husband is nuts. The Couey trial goes on and does anybody remember Gary Condit? More on Devlin and another Russian spy muder. Finally, she was only ten years old, forced to sit in scalding water and had to apologize for getting her blood all over the place. A real heartbreaker; she's dead now.

Gary Condit is losing another lawyer. Although he's playing both offense and defense in court, the former San Joaquin Valley congressman is having a hard time holding on to attorneys. This week, the lawyer defending him against an ice cream company became the latest to leave. "Irreconcilable differences have arisen," Condit's newly estranged lawyer, Cynthia Becker, explained Wednesday to a federal judge in Arizona. For Condit, this has become a familiar refrain. Earlier this year, he lost an attorney representing him in a separate defamation lawsuit filed in New York City. In neither case has Condit yet found a replacement.

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...

Famed writer Dominick Dunne can't stop blabbing about Gary Condit, the ex-California congressman who was forced to fend off claims that he withheld information from authorities about the slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy. , claiming the Vanity Fair correspondent caused him to suffer "public hatred, contempt and ridicule" as a result of comments Dunne made on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Nov. 16, 2005. Eight months after publicly apologizing to Condit, Dunne told the show's fill-in host Bob Costas: "I think [Condit] knows more about what did happen than he has ever said." Condit's asking for more than $75,000...

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...

In slapping The Boeing Co. with the largest financial penalty ever for a military contractor, the Justice Department said Monday that it will hit Boeing hard again if there is any more executive misconduct. The department announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with Boeing, the nation's second-biggest defense contractor, to settle two high-profile scandals that rocked the company over the past several years. One sent two Boeing executives to prison and led to the resignation of then-Boeing Chairman and Chief Executive Phil Condit. It also cost Boeing a $23 billion deal to supply the Air Force with 100...

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...

Process servers are stuck, and $2.4M lawsuit in limbo Officials say Chad Condit illegally took campaign money raised by his father. WASHINGTON — Chad Condit is proving to be an elusive defendant. The son of former congressman Gary Condit, Chad Condit is a target of a $2.4 million lawsuit filed by California's political watchdog agency. The regulators claim Condit and his sister, Cadee Condit, illegally pocketed campaign money their father raised. But in the two months since the Fair Political Practices Commission filed the lawsuit, officials have been unable to reach Chad Condit to deliver legal papers. "We are still...

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...

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Gary Condit (search) has settled his defamation lawsuit against Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne. The terms of the settlement were filed with the court on Monday and the case has now been dismissed without prejudice. Dunne is issuing an undisclosed sum to Condit and releasing an apology saying some of the statements he made about Condit were misunderstood. The lawsuit originally sought $11 million in damages.

Former congressman scrutinized in his libel suit against author Dunne. Then-congressman Gary Condit's reputation was on the line in late 2001 when his re-election campaign commissioned a survey. Now his reputation is again on the line, though he no longer holds office. As he pursues a defamation lawsuit against author Dominick Dunne, the $11 million question is when did Condit's stature sour. Condit claims Dunne's comments cost him dearly, up to and including the March 2002 Democratic primary election when Condit lost his job. Dunne's attorneys retort that Condit's actions undermined his public standing. This dispute over who's responsible for...

Did you miss that headline in the news last week? Well, that's because no one ran it. Ingmar Guandique, a violent Salvadoran national who is serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting two female joggers in Washington's Rock Creek Park last year, was interrogated recently as part of the investigation into the intern murder mystery. But in my review of all 115 news items archived in the Lexis-Nexis database that mention Guandique in connection with the Levy case, not a single story referred to his status as a criminal illegal alien.

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

Former congressman Gary Condit has won the latest round in his $11 million slander lawsuit against writer Dominick Dunne, with U.S. District Judge Peter Leisure ruling that Dunne's videotaped deposition can be made public. "More than mere celebrity interest is involved in this case," Leisure noted, in quotes picked up by the Sacramento Bee. "Instead, the underlying litigation directly addresses a matter of public interest regarding a congressman's performance of his official duties." Dunne had complained that he was intimidated by Condit's attorney's during five hours of questioning earlier this year, where he may have changed his story under oath....

Former Rep. Gary Condit must answer questions about his sexual history in his slander case against a magazine writer who suggested Condit knew more than he let on about the death of intern Chandra Levy, a judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling does not mean the information elicited by lawyers for Dominick Dunne, a special correspondent to Vanity Fair, will be made public. Judge Peter K. Leisure said he may order that the testimony be kept confidential. But Condit cannot "use the court system as both a sword and a shield" by filing the $11 million lawsuit in December 2002, and...

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...

Former California Congressman Gary Condit is coming to New York — to try to clear his name over the mysterious death of intern Chandra Levy by pursuing his defamation suit against crime author Dominick Dunne. But lawyers for Dunne plan to grill Condit over his relationship with Levy, whose remains were found in Washington, D.C. in May 2002 after she had been missing for over a year. Condit charges that Dunne falsely linked him to Levy's disappearance. He's seeking $11 million in damages. Investigators concluded Condit was not a suspect, although he admitted to having an affair with Levy. No...

Joe S is engaging in fear mongering regarding the deficit. He just said that W took a record surplus (no mention that the surplus was an illusion brought on by the bubble economy) and turned it into record deficits. He is unmistakably trying to drive done W's support with his base. Now he has Buchanan on making the anti-Republican case too. Scarborough is such a nut. One minute he praises reagan (who had larger deficits than Bush does) and then he lights into Bush. This is insane. He is an incoherent jerk.

Condidit.com tabloid roundup for 11/13 The latest edition of Star Magazine (hitting gorcery stores this weekend, dated November 13) is reporting that law-enforcement sources say FBI tests of material found in Condit's apartment in their search revealed semen found in a dozen locations around the apartment -- from three different men, none of them Condit. This has contributed to speculation among investigator's that Levy's knowledge of and/or participation in Condit's bisexual antics contributed to her death. Nothing else in the article is new. Attorney Jim Robinson is again quoted as saying his client Anne Marie Smith was asked by Condit ...

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...

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...

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<p>WASHINGTON -- Former Democratic Rep. Gary Condit wants $209 million from the tabloid newspapers he says ruined his reputation.</p> <p>Odds are, he won't get it. In his latest lawsuit against three tabloids, Condit is asking for something far beyond what others have ever actually received for winning libel judgments.</p>

Condit Sues Over Chandra Levy Articles Saturday December 20, 2003 2:46 AM By JILL BARTON Associated Press Writer WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former Rep. Gary Condit sued The National Enquirer and other tabloids for $209 million on Friday, alleging they falsely connected him with the 2001 murder of federal intern Chandra Levy. The California Democrat alleges that the Enquirer, Globe and Star Magazine tabloids, along with parent company American Media Inc., maliciously published defamatory statements that Condit ``was involved in deviant and perverted sexual conduct, which directly or indirectly led to the kidnapping and/or murder of Ms. Levy,''...

Boeing: What Really Happened Flawed strategy. Lax controls. A weak board. Personal shortcomings. CEO Phil Condit lasted longer than he should have The really surprising thing about Philip M. Condit's resignation as chairman and chief executive officer of Boeing Co. (BA ) was not that his seven-year tenure ended so abruptly on Dec. 1, but that it lasted so long. Recent allegations of questionable conduct by a Boeing executive involved in negotiating an $18 billion deal with the Pentagon was only the latest mishap in a series of ethical lapses and managerial blunders that marred Condit's tumultuous reign from the...

<p>The rule-busting California gubernatorial recall election took a turn for the bizarre Friday as author-columnist Arianna Huffington appeared ready to kick off an independent run to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, and her ex-husband, former Rep. Michael Huffington, prepared to run as a Republican.</p>

Carolyn Condit Launches Libel Suit Against USA Today Carolyn Condit Launches Libel Suit Against USA Today The wife of former Ceres Congressman Gary Condit is launching another libel lawsuit aimed a national newspaper. Condit has filed suit agains USA Today and its owners, the Gannett Company, Inc. Gannett is the parent company of News10. The suit alleges that USA Today and two Australian newspapers erroneously reported that Condit verbally attacked intern Chandra Levy during a phone call a few days before Levy disappeared. Carolyn Condit contends that she never met or spoke with Levy, whose body was later found...

<p>Read the death notice posted by Chandra's family or post in the guest book.</p> <p>Chandra Levy's remains were laid to rest at Lakewood Memorial Park on Tuesday, in a private ceremony attended by family and investigators who still hope to solve her murder.</p>

<p>April 27, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Two years after Chandra Levy was last seen alive, her former boyfriend and disgraced politician Gary Condit is unemployed, battling to save his marriage and trying to live anonymously in Arizona.</p> <p>For a time after the intern disappeared on April 30, 2001, Condit's clumsy efforts to cover up their affair made him one of the most prominent names in the news.</p>

Former California Congressman Gary Condit reportedly has a home in Scottsdale. San Francisco Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross reported that the Modesto Democrat and his wife, Carolyn, "are looking for a little peace and quiet in new digs in Scottsdale." No word on exactly where. Meanwhile, Condit is pursuing two lawsuits over media stories that he believes unfairly linked him to the disappearance and death of Chandra Levy, a former intern. Levy disappeared in April 2001. Washington police discovered her body last May but have made no arrests. Condit admitted he had an affair with Levy, but police...

WASHINGTON -- Former congressman Gary Condit paid his children $209,500 last year with funds originally meant to advance his own career, newly released records show. The most recent payments to Chad and Cadee Condit all but emptied the treasury Condit established when his statewide prospects appeared bright. They also illuminate the sometimes controversial liberties politicians can take with political action committees. "I would consider it unusual and downright misleading for a candidate to use PAC funds to pay his children," David Schecter, assistant professor of political science at California State University, Fresno, said Monday. But Schecter added, "If the payments...

<p>WASHINGTON — Several of the House's more prominent and colorful members, including GOP leader Dick Armey and Democratic stalwart David Bonior, are leaving office with the close of this Congress. Some are taking the short walk down the Capitol hallway to the Senate. One took a longer trip to a Pennsylvania jail.</p>