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Verdict is mixed bag for Manning Soldier acquitted of aiding enemy but could face 136 years in espionage case
By Julie Tate and Ernesto Londoño
The Washington Post
An Army judge on Tuesday acquitted Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy by disclosing a trove of secret U.S. government documents but found him guilty of
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espionage, a mixed verdict that dealt a rebuke to military prosecutors who sought to prove that the largest leak in U.S. history had assisted al-Qaida. The judge, Col. Denise Lind, found Manning guilty of most of the more than 20 crimes he was charged
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with, including several violations of the Espionage Act. He could face a maximum of 136 years in prison.
The case, tried in a small courtroom at Fort Meade, Md., an installation that includes the National Security Agency, unfolded amid a heated national conversation about the right balance between govern-
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Struck by the freeze Behavioral health audit: Workers and patients speak on impact of funding cut; lawmaker says state’s plan to squeeze out providers predates fraud allegations
Despite lawsuit against clerk, commissioners urge end to restrictions in state By Julie Ann Grimm
The New Mexican
The Santa Fe County Commission passed a resolution late Tuesday expressing formal support for same-sex marriage in New Mexico and urging the state Legislature to change laws to allow the practice. Commissioners voted 4-1 to adopt the symbolic measure even as county lawyers continue to fight a court case that asks the state Supreme Court to order the county clerk to issue a marriage license to two men. The measure introduced by Commissioner Liz Stefanics received support from Commissioners Miguel Chavez, Kathy Holian and Danny Mayfield. Commissioner Robert Anaya voted no, he said, because of a last-minute amendment that he says could undercut the county’s ability to fend off future legal challenges on other issues. “Times change, life changes. We adapt,” Anaya said. “Sometimes change is overdue: a woman’s right to vote, ending slavery, civil rights. These are all examples of change that was overdue that came to pass. This is along with it — marriage equality.”
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Man guilty in fatal crash faces another DWI charge By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
A Santa Fe man who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and other charges stemming from a fatal drunken-driving crash on Cerrillos Road about 10 years ago is facing a new drunken-driving charge. Early Tuesday, 33-yearold Nick Mares backed his 2013 Nissan Titan into a taxi cab in the parking lot of Cheeks, a strip club at 2841 Cerrillos Road, according to a police report. Mares reportedly got Nick Mares out of his vehicle and pounded on the cab’s passenger-side front window. Using an expletive, he demanded that the taxi driver get out of the way, the report said. The cab driver declined to move his vehicle, and Mares returned to his truck briefly, then got out again and fled on foot. Police found him a short time later near
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THE WORKER: Valerie Romero, a former behavioral management specialist with Casa de Corazon, speaks during a news conference Tuesday in Albuquerque about how the state Human Services Department’s decision to freeze funding for mental health providers has affected her and her clients. Romero was furloughed July 7 and was laid off Monday. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN By Steve Terrell
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state senator — who has been highly critical of the Human Services Department for suspending payments to 15 mental health providers under investigation for possible fraud — said Tuesday that he believes the funding freeze is part of a plan to replace New Mexico providers so that large, outof-state corporations can be brought in to run the behavioral health system. Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, made the charges at a news conference at Hogares, one of the defunded providers located in Albuquerque’s North Valley. The news conference was attended by several Democratic state legislators as well as clients of the affected providers, families of clients and behavioral health staff and managers who have been hit by the suspension of funds. “It’s pretty clear that the administration was planning this as far back as a year ago,” Ortiz y Pino said, adding that one of the five Arizona providers who have contracted with the state was contacted by Human Services last fall about the possibility of coming to New Mexico to take
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THE CLIENT: Raymond Romero, 16, speaks Tuesday about how he benefits from Encantada program at Hogares in Albuquerque. Romero said he learned life skills and money management through the program, which also helped him get a job at Little Caesars Pizza. over for local providers under investigation for fraud. A spokesman for the Human Services Department denied that the administration made the controversial move to benefit big corporations. In late June, the department notified the 15
providers that an audit performed by an outside auditor from Boston had discovered an estimated $36 million in Medicaid overpayments. Citing a new federal Medicaid regulation, the department immediately froze payments to the providers and
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