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John Carro, Jurist Who Had Early Brush With Lee Harvey Oswald, Dies at 98

Decades before his rise to the New York State appellate court, he was a probation officer who tried to help Mr. Oswald, then a teenager living in the Bronx.

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John Carro in 1998. Before he became a lawyer, he was a police office, a social worker and a mayoral aide.
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The 5 Congress Members Whose Families Trade the Most Stocks

Some lawmakers and their families have traded millions of dollars worth of stocks since the start of this term.

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A law passed in 2012, the STOCK Act, emphasizes that insider trading is illegal among lawmakers, as it is for the general public, and requires them to periodically disclose trades of shares held by them and members of their families.
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David Hearn’s Lawyers Ask Court to Bar Future Reflecting Pool Charges

Citing comments by President Trump, David Hearn raised the prospect of “prosecutorial harassment.”

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Workers inspected the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool last month.
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