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A Real Scandal: Lawsuit Involves A Businesswoman, A Lawyer And A Federal Judge
Lisa Crinel was having an affair with Atty. Clarence Roby who is married to U. S. Magistrate Karen Wells Roby.
Probe Into Shooting Of Unarmed Black Man In Baltimore
NEW ORLEANS --- A scandal in New Orleans has the city riveted as a promi- nent lawyer, his wife, a Fed- eral judge and a businesswoman who is head of the one of the city’s popu- lar Black Mardi Gras organi- zation and facing federal charges, are involved in what looks like a love triangle.
Lisa Crinel, a New Or- leans businesswoman is suing her former lover, Atty. Clarence Roby, who is married to the Federal judge, U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby who signed off on federal search warrants for Crinel, who was represented by Roby in a case alleging that she stole $30 million from Medicare through her busi- ness, Abide Home Health
Services.
Crinel’s lawsuit restates
facts that Crinel’s current lawyers have used to try and suppress evidence obtained in a March 2014 search of the headquarters of her Abide Home Health Services in eastern New Orleans.
Crinel and Roby carried on “an intimate, romantic relationship” for about 12 months, starting in Septem- ber 2013, according to her lawsuit. In January, she also hired him to serve as her lawyer as she negotiated the purchase of another busi- ness.
On March 24, 2014, the couple were together at Crinel’s house “until late in the evening as their roman- tic relationship continued,” the lawsuit states. The next
day, federal agents raided Abide’s headquarters.
In motions filed in the federal case, Crinel’s lawyers claim that Karen Wells Roby signed off on the warrants used in the search, and have suggested the judge was aware of her husband’s affair with Crinel, and may even have driven past Abide’s offices while investigators were carting out files.
After the raid, Crinel’s lawsuit says Roby told her he could continue to serve as her lawyer despite their ro- mantic relationship, and even though his wife had ap- proved search warrants. Crinel’s lawsuit accuses him of violating professional codes for attorneys and com- mitting “legal malpractice.”
SpaceX Rocket Explodes After Lift-Off
CAPE CANAVERAL ---An unmanned SpaceX rocket ex- ploded less than three minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday, in the first major disaster for the fast-charging company headed by Internet tycoon Elon Musk.
Live television images from SpaceX's webcast and NASA television showed a huge puff of smoke billowing outward, then tiny bits of the rocket falling like confetti against a backdrop of blue sky.
Facebook Tops Walmart On Stock Market
Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market. The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest re- tailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index last Monday and the gap widened on Tuesday.
Apple, Microsoft and Google top the list of the U.S. highest-valued companies.
OWING MILLS, MD --- Police have opened an inves- tigation into the killing of an unarmed Black man by law enforcement officers outside Baltimore, authorities said on Saturday, two months after the city was rocked by protests over the death of an- other African-American who was taken into custody.
The latest incident un- folded in the Baltimore sub- urb of Owing Mills, where three officers fired at least 19 rounds and killed Spencer Lee McCain, 41, during a domestic disturbance on Thursday. The Baltimore County police's homicide unit is investigating, police said in a statement Saturday.
Police will conduct an in- ternal review to determine compliance with departmen- tal policy, rules and regula- tions, the department said. It will send the findings to the Baltimore County State’s At- torney’s Office for review.
The investigation comes at time when U.S. law enforce-
Spencer Lee McCain was shot multiple times by 3 police officers.
ment is under close scrutiny over the use of lethal force, especially in confrontations with African-American men.
Three officers shot Mc- Cain, fearing he had a weapon, but no firearms were found. Investigators found 19 shell casings, but the exact number of rounds fired was unknown, police said.
McCain was taken to a hospital, where he was pro- nounced dead. The officers have been placed on admin- istrative leave.
National Cathedral Dean Wants Confederate Stained Windows Removed
Three Of 9 Killed At S.C. Church Laid To Rest Saturday
Charleston shooting victims Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jack- son and Tywanza Sanders were laid to rest Saturday.
The Very Rev. Gary Hall, Dean of Washington National Cathedral
The dean of Washington National Cathedral is calling for the removal of stained- glass windows that depict the Confederate battle flag.
The Very Rev. Gary Hall issued a statement Thursday saying windows in the church honoring Confeder- ate Gen. Stonewall Jack- son and Gen. Robert E. Lee should be removed. Both windows depict the Confederate flag.
The cathedral installed the windows in 1953. Hall says the cathedral's leadership at
Stained glass window that depics the confederal plag symbol.
the time thought recognition for the Confederate leaders would foster reconciliation.
But Hall says celebrating the lives of the Confederate generals and flag now does not promote healing or rec- onciliation, especially for African-Americans. Hall says the Confederate flag has become the primary symbol of white supremacy.
Hall says the cathedral should consider new win- dows representing the na- tion's history of race and slavery.
CHARLESTON S. C -- Speaking at the funerals for three of the victims of a deadly attack on a historic African-American church in South Carolina, eulogizers said Saturday that the lives lost had become a catalyst for change.
The services were held for
Cynthia Hurd, Tywanza Sanders and Susie Jack- son at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, the same place they were mur- dered.
The tragedy "shook an America that didn't want to believe this kind of hate could still exist," said Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley Jr. during a eulogy for Hurd.
Riley said the killings will go down in history with other episodes of church vi-
olence, referencing the Civil Rights-era bombing of a Baptist church in Alabama that killed four girls.
Remembering the 54- year-old Hurd as a young girl who worked serving peo- ple ice cream during the summer, Riley said she went on "to leading them to knowledge," as a librarian for almost 30 years.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley attended the services along with U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Speaking at the combined service for Sanders, 26, and Jackson, 87, Haley said the shooting happened on her watch, and she promised "we will make this right." The governor did not say what actions she planned to take.
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