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Mentoring a path to successNonprofit gives disadvantaged students a boost toward collegeBY ERICA W. MORRISON

T anae Black is looking for-ward to her senior year inhigh school, when she can

line up for the 100-meter dashagain. For now, though, it’s allabout the books.

Black, 17, a junior at ElizabethSeton High School in Bladens-burg, put track — and ballet,another of her passions — on holdto prepare her grades for the rigorof college applications. Thechoice impressed her grand-mother, who has raised her formost of her life.

“She gave all that up to buckledown and do what she has to do,”said Laurese Black-Lowe of Capi-tal Heights.

Black and her grandmothercredit much of her determinationto Ayesha Edwards-Kemp,Black’s mentor for the last threeyears through a program calledCapital Partners for Education.CPE recently was awarded$30,000 by Washington PostCharities, a McCormick Founda-tion Fund that aims to supportD.C.-area nonprofit organiza-tions with programs focused onincreasing educational opportu-nities for disadvantaged chil-dren.

“When she started askingquestions about college, I real-ized she had been listening towhat I was saying,” said Edwards-Kemp, a management and pro-gram analyst for the U.S. Depart-ment of Education and an Eliza-beth Seton graduate.

Black wasn’t always keen oncollege. After hearing storiesfrom Black-Lowe, who is enrolledin college courses, and watchingher older sister — now a studentat St. John’s University in NewYork — go through the applica-tion process, she wanted nothingto do with it.

“I didn’t want to go to college,”said Black, who said she is nowconsidering Towson, Georgetownand other area universities. “Butit’s not an option.”

Black is one of 113 studentscurrently working with CPE, anonprofit organization thatsteers students to area privatehigh schools, provides up to$4,500 in financial aid and

matches students with support —including mentors, test prepara-tion, etiquette instruction andresume building.

Created in 1993, CPE hashelped 400 students over 19years. The organization says 70percent of the students who startin their freshman year graduatefrom high school and attend col-lege; 73 percent finish college.Every one of their students whograduated from high school thisyear is now at college, accordingto CPE.

The mentors are key to thosenumbers, according to CPE Exec-utive Director Khari Brown.“Anyone who has been successfulhas had a mentor,” said Brown.

Brown, a former high schoolbasketball coach who has beenwith CPE for 11 school years, saysthe program attempts to givestudents the same advantages asthose from any other family.

“Our goal is to remove barriersof income, social and economicclass that these students mayencounter,” Brown said.

Qualifying students must beentering ninth grade, apply toone of CPE’s partner schools, livein the D.C. area and meet amaximum income requirement.Once accepted, they must main-tain satisfactory grades, demon-strate good behavior and partici-pate in all of CPE’s programs —including community service andother workshops.

And mentorship. “My mentor,she pushes me to do my home-work,” Black said. “She tells meabout how life was at Seton andhow she always wanted to go tocollege.”

It took a year before Black trulyopened up to her, Edwards-Kempsaid, but they are now close.

“It’s almost like a sister rela-tionship, but sometimes like amother because I have to crack awhip,” Edwards-Kemp said. “Inthe beginning, I was doing all thetalking, and she did all the listen-ing. Now it’s reversed: I get all ofthe stories and do most of thelistening.”

Edwards-Kemp and Black talkonce a week by phone, multipletimes via Facebook and hang outevery two weeks — with trips tothe movies, shopping and otherthings Black described as “girly.”

Her grandmother approveswholeheartedly. Black’s motherwas a drug addict, even usingdrugs while pregnant, and shedied shortly before her 15thbirthday; Black-Lowe has lookedafter her granddaughter sinceshe was 7 months old.

When Black-Lowe took re-sponsibility for Black and hersister, she said, she vowed threethings: That they should moveforward rather than be definedby their mother’s fate, that theywould be raised with God in theirlives and that they would get aneducation.

She credits Edwards-Kempwith a key role in that plan.

“She’s showing Tanae thatthere are other things out here inlife and you have to put your bestfoot forward and strive for excel-lence and success,” Black-Lowesaid. “I like that about her.”

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MARYLAND

More seek Legal Aid in hard timesAgency deals with

budget cuts even asits client rolls swell

BY JIMM PHILLIPS

Rhonda Martin listened as herattorney, Teresa Cooke, went overwhat she needed to do to end aharrowing housing dispute. Nextto Martin was a binder filled withcopies of contracts, bills and oth-er papers documenting her trou-bles.

First, she faced eviction fromher Prince George’s County town-house and a lawsuit over morethan $9,400 in unpaid rent,which is what sent her to Cookein early September.

Now, having agreed to vacateher home, Martin was trying tofind a place to live, which is whyshe was back at Cooke’s office inRiverdale looking for help.

“I’m trying not to becomehomeless,” she said. “I’ve neverbeen in that situation.”

For nearly a quarter-century,Cooke has been a lawyer for theMaryland Legal Aid Bureau,working with people to helpthem keep a roof over theirheads.

“We’re going to work hard tomake sure that doesn’t happen,”Cooke said of Martin’s fear ofbecoming homeless.

As Maryland Legal Aid cel-ebrates its centennial this year,the national housing crisis,which has hit suburban Washing-ton hard, is making the work itdoes even more vital.

At the same time, the agency,like similar organizations acrossthe country, is grappling withfunding cuts that make it harderto help the increasing number ofpeople in need of assistance incivil cases.

For example, Prince George’s,the second-most-populous juris-diction in the state, has enduredmore foreclosures than any otherin Maryland. And the economicdownturn has brought Legal Aid

prospective clients that the or-ganization would not have seen10 years ago.

“I review a lot of the intakes,and we’re getting people fromPotomac calling us,” Cooke said.“But these individuals are nowactually financially eligible forour services.”

In most cases, a potential cli-ent must not have a householdincome that exceeds 125 percentof federal poverty guidelines. Afour-person family would meetthis year’s guidelines if it had ahousehold income of less than$22,350 per year.

“It shows me that even thewealthiest amongst us can hithard times suddenly,” said Cooke,whose office covers Howard,Montgomery and Prince George’scounties.

Housing costs across the re-gion remain relatively high evenas unemployment and other forc-es have made it harder for manypeople to afford a place to live.Rental prices in the D.C. regionfell slightly between 2010 andthis year, but the Center forHousing Policy continues to rankthe District and its Maryland andVirginia suburbs among the mostexpensive rental markets in thenation.

“It is very expensive to live inthis area,” Cooke said. “If you areworking at a minimum-wage job40 hours a week, all of yourmoney would go to pay for aone-bedroom apartment. You’dhave no more money left for foodor clothing or transportation oranything like that.”

The District Court in Hyatts-ville handled 153,000 failure-to-pay-rent cases last year, accord-ing to court records.

“It’s huge,” she said. “And, un-fortunately, people end up get-ting evicted, and they end uphomeless.”

Battles on Capitol Hill havemade Maryland Legal Aid andother groups that, like it, getmoney from the federally fundedLegal Services Corp. frequent tar-gets for restrictions and budgetcuts.

The most recent budget battleended Nov. 18, when PresidentObama signed a compromisefunding bill for the 2012 fiscalyear. The measure, however, cutfederal funds for legal aid pro-grams to $348 million, more than$56 million less than the previ-ous fiscal year. That cut meansMaryland Legal Aid will get$670,000 less.

Although Cooke’s office hasnot resorted to layoffs in re-sponse to previous funding cuts,it has instituted hiring freezes.

“That puts a tremendousstrain on the staff, for one personto do the work of three,” Cookesaid.

In 22 years at Maryland LegalAid, Cooke has handled nearlyevery kind of case. But she prefershousing disputes because it’s anarea of civil law with quick turn-around, meaning she is able tohelp more people over time. Italso has enabled her to make hermark on state law — a 1997 caseshe argued before the MarylandCourt of Appeals resulted in aruling that allows judges to pre-vent evictions.

In Martin’s case, Cooke helpedher reach a settlement to pay herlandlord $1,472. In return, Mar-tin agreed to move out of therental where she had lived for 11years.

At their meeting in late Octo-ber, Martin was looking at prop-erties that would accept her fed-eral Section 8 housing voucher.Cooke told her that the weakhousing market would give hermore housing options.

Martin signed a lease on arental in early November, butbureaucratic red tape is prevent-ing her from moving in. For now,she remains in her old homewhile she waits for an inspectorto determine that her new resi-dence meets Section 8 guidelines.

Martin said she is grateful forthe work Cooke and her col-leagues at Maryland Legal Aiddid on her behalf.

“She turned a nightmare into ablessing,” Martin said.

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Rhonda Martin, left, listens as Maryland Legal Aid lawyer Teresa Cooke goes over ways she plans to helpMartin, who has been evicted from a Prince George’s townhouse after falling behind on her rent.

Va. Tech gunman was a ‘typical college kid’

history.Police have said that they had

not found a connection betweenCrouse and Ashley and that theythink Ashley acted alone.Virginia State Police con-tinued to work on the casethrough the weekend buthad not released any newinformation, spokeswom-an Corinne Geller said.

Ashley graduated fromSpotsylvania High Schoolin 2007, where he playedfootball and won aca-demic awards. He enrolled at theUniversityofVirginia’sWiseCoun-ty campus for the 2007-08 schoolyear, then transferred to Radford,a smallpublic schoolnestled in theBlue Ridge Mountains about 15miles south of Virginia Tech. Ash-ley was a senior business manage-ment major who enrolled in twoclasses this semester, according toa school spokeswoman.

Ashley looked like an averagecollege student, Manion said, with

ashley from C1 his hair buzzed short and a ward-robe composed mostly of sweat-pants and sweatshirts. He skate-boarded, watched TV with hisroommates and worked behindthescenes for theaterproductions.

Perry said Ashley likedJay-ZandMotown,favoredbaseball caps and liked toworkoutat thegym.

Jade Jackson, who saidshe was Ashley’s residentadviser at Radford lastyear, said he got in trou-ble for breaking a chair inhis dorm room, skate-boarding in the hallways

and smoking. But at his core, heseemed like a nice guy.

“Yes, he was occasionally introuble, but he never seemed de-pressed. He never seemed to behaving a hard time,” Jackson said.

DougMead,thetechnicaldirectorfortheDepartmentofStudentActiv-itiesatBondurantAuditorium,hiredAshley to work on the stage crew attheauditoriummorethanayearago.Ashley would help set up lightingandotherelementsforshows.

“He was a pretty typical collegekid. He wasn’t a standout worker,buthewasn’t theworst I everhad,”Mead said. “It was a complete andutter shock what happened.”

Mead said Ashley did not seemtroubled and did not have a repu-tation as a partier. The studentsthat worked on his crew said Ash-ley was not a heavy drinker or adrug user.

Ashley was supposed to workfor Mead again this year, but hemissed a mandatory meeting andMeadneverheardfromhimagain.He assumed that Ashley no longerwanted the job.

This school year, Ashley livedoff campus in his own apartmentin a gray three-story building indowntown Radford. Several of hisneighbors said Ashley mostly keptto himself and was soft-spoken.

“He wasn’t out of the ordinary,”Paul Stinnett said. “He didn’t stickout.”

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Johnson reported from Washington.

Ross Ashley

THE DISTRICT

Fists fly in overnight eruption of assaults in NorthwestBY MARTIN WEIL

A championship boxing matchwas held Saturday night inWashington, but well before itstarted, plenty of punches hadbeen thrown in a series of unre-lated incidents on downtownstreets.

In four hours starting lateFriday, police reported seven in-cidents in Northwest Washing-ton in which people attackedothers with fists or open hands.

In two cases, people were

knocked unconscious by repeat-ed blows, police said. In one, averbal altercation in the 1200block of Wisconsin Avenueturned violent shortly before 2a.m. Saturday, and a man waspunched in the head and body,police said. Police said he wastaken to a hospital. They saidthey made two arrests.

The second incident in whicha man was knocked out occurrednear 18th and I streets about3:30 a.m., police said. They saidthe victim told them that, as he

was walking, someone came upfrom behind, punched him onthe side of the head and contin-ued punching him as he lay onthe ground.

Police said they made anarrest in that case, too.

Among places where otherincidents occurred were the 800block of 16th Street, the 1200block of Connecticut Avenue ,the 1300 block of 16th Street,14th and U streets, and the 1600block of Rhode Island Avenue.

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Politics & The NationArizona sheriff accused of anti-Hispanic bias A3

The WorldJapan’s economic troubles accelerate A14

Economy & BusinessMario Draghi, the man holding all of Europe’s cards A25

OpinionEditorial: Greece is no closer to solving its financial problems A32Masha Lipman: In Russia, new generation finds its political voice A33

l Two charts with the continua-tion of a Dec. 15 Page One articleabout the D.C. government’s re-sponsiveness to service requestsfrom residents included incor-rect labels. Figures for responsetime were shown in days, not inminutes.

l A Dec. 15 Metro article aboutan income tax lien filed against ahome owned by D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward8) incorrectly said that his es-tranged wife lives at the house,on Orange Street SE. NeitherBarry nor Cora Masters Barrylives in the home. Cora Barrylives in another house the couplejointly own, also in Southeast.

l A photo caption with a Dec. 14Style article about the Senate’sSecret Santa gift exchange mis-stated the party affiliation of Sen.Joe Manchin (W.Va.). He is aDemocrat, not a Republican.

l A photo caption with a Dec. 11Metro article about MarylandLegal Aid incorrectly said thatRhonda Martin was evicted fromher Prince George’s Countytownhouse after falling behindon her rent. As the article said,she was threatened with evictionbut a Legal Aid lawyer helped herreach a settlement in which sheagreed to move out of the homeand pay her landlord $1,472.

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CORRECTIONS

FBI pondered sting against GingrichNo evidence found after

arms dealer talked ofpotential bribe in ’90s

White House sticks by awardto Marine despite controversy

BY DAVID NAKAMURA

The White House on Thursdaystood by the Defense Depart-ment’s decision to award the Med-al of Honor to Sgt. Dakota Meyerdespite a report that the MarineCorps embellished some of Mey-er’s actions in presenting his storyto the public.

White House press secretaryJay Carney said the narrative ofevents that Obama read into thepublic record while awarding themilitary’s highest honor to Meyer

on Sept. 14 was based on docu-ments provided by the MarineCorps that received “quite exten-sive” vetting.

“The president remains veryproud of Sergeant Meyer and theremarkable acts of bravery he dis-played on that day,” Carney said.

McClatchy Newspapers report-ed Thursday that portions of theevents described by Obama aboutMeyer’s actions while serving inAfghanistan were “untrue, unsub-stantiated or exaggerated.”

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BY JAMES V. GRIMALDI

It is a curious case in the annalsof the FBI: The bureau considereda sting operation against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich af-ter sifting through allegationsfrom a notorious arms dealer thata $10 million bribe might getCongress to lift the Iraqi armsembargo.

The FBI ended up calling offthe operation in June 1997. Itdecided there was no evidencethat Gingrich knew anythingabout the conversations the armsdealer was secretly recordingwith a man who said he wasacting on behalf of Gingrich’sthen-wife, Marianne, accordingto people with knowledge of theinvestigation.

But details of the case, whichbecame public this week in anarticle and documents posted on-line by a nonprofit journalist,show how a series of second- andthird-hand conversations alleg-ing that the top man in Congressmight be for sale caught the atten-tion of federal investigators.

“There are so many false-hoods,” Marianne Gingrich saidThursday. “The FBI, they shouldhave been protecting me, not go-ing after me. This is scary stuff.”

Her lawyer, Victoria Toensing,said: “There was no basis whatso-ever for an investigation. Thesewere people puffing, whichmeans they were making up ac-cess to a high-level govermentperson.”

Gingrich’s presidential cam-paign did not provide immediatecomment when asked for re-sponse Thursday.

The investigation began afterthe arms dealer, Sarkis Soghana-lian, told federal prosecutors andFBI agents in Miami that Mari-anne Gingrich said during ameeting in Paris in 1995 that shecould provide legislative favorsthrough her husband. The caseprogressed to the point that it wasdeemed a major investigation re-quiring approval in Washington.

Soghanalian, a convicted felonwho is now dead, said he wantedthe speaker’s help in getting thearms embargo lifted so he couldcollect an $80 million debt fromIraqi leader Saddam Hussein, ac-cording to an FBI document filedto obtain continuing wiretap au-thorization for the case. The factsin the document were “developedthrough a cooperating witness,”whom The Washington Post hasconfirmed was Soghanalian.

Soghanalian said MarianneGingrich assured him “she wouldbe able to do anything [Soghana-lian] requested of her ‘as long asthey had an understanding,’ ” thedocument states.

Several months after the meet-ing in Paris, a man who had beenon the trip with Gingrich andSoghanalian told the arms dealerthat the embargo could be liftedfor the right price. In conversa-tions recorded by Soghanalian,the man, a Miami car salesmannamed Morty Bennett, stated thatMarianne “wanted 10 million dol-lars to get the job done, five mil-lion of which would go directly toMarianne Gingrich,” the docu-ment states.

Bennett said in an interviewThursday, “I knew somebody and

introduced them to somebodyand that was it. Thank you forcalling, and don’t call me back.”

The document and the exis-tence of the aborted sting wasfirst revealed this week in a 6,400-word story by Joseph Trento, whooperates a Web site called DCBureau (www.dcbureau.org).Trento interviewed Soghanalianseveral times before his death inOctober at 82.

The investigation founderedbecause there was no evidenceagainst Newt Gingrich to estab-lish “predication” — a basis tobelieve the target was engaging inor about to engage in criminalactivity — according to peoplefamiliar with the investigationwho spoke on the condition ofanonymity because of the sensi-tivity of the case. FBI policy re-quires predication before signifi-cant undercover operations areinitiated.

“There wasn’t any direct evi-dence that he knew anything,”said a source who spoke on thecondition of anonymity. “Therules are you just can’t go in thereand do an integrity check onsomeone.”

Bruce Udolph, the former chieffederal corruption prosecutor inMiami, said he could not confirmthe existence of the investigationbut added, “With respect toSpeaker Gingrich, I am not awareof any direct, credible evidencelinking him to any conspiracy toreceive a bribe from anyone.”

The Justice Department re-ferred calls to the FBI, whichdeclined to comment on the case.

The Armenian-born Soghana-lian was a high-volume arms deal-er nicknamed “the Merchant ofDeath” who was indicted by fed-eral authorities in South Floridafor conspiring to sell U.S. helicop-ters to Iraq in violation of a U.S.ban. His 61/2-year sentence wasreduced to two years in 1993 be-cause of his cooperation with fed-eral authorities.

He was already a federal in-formant when he met with Mari-anne Gingrich in Paris in July

1995. Also in attendance at thosemeetings were Bennett and How-ard Ash, who had earlier workedwith Marianne Gingrich at theIsrael Export Development Corp.,a company that advocated for afree-trade zone in the Gaza Strip.

Marianne Gingrich, who hadleft her position as vice presidentof marketing at IEDC, said shewent to Paris at the request of herformer boss to help get an invest-

ment from Soghanalian in IEDC.The FBI document states that

Soghanalian, Marianne Gingrich,Ash and Bennett spent severaldays together in Paris. Gingrichsaid “her relationship with herhusband was purely a relation-ship of convenience,” the docu-ment states. “She told [Soghana-lian] that she needed her husbandfor economic reasons, and that heneeded to keep her close becauseshe knew of all his ‘skeletons.’ ”

“She also told [Soghanalian],‘It’s time for me to make moneyusing my husband, and after weget started doing this, it will beeasy,” the document says.

In January 1996, the documentstates, Soghanalian said he re-ceived a call from Bennett, whosaid he was acting on behalf ofMarianne Gingrich and asked for$10 million to get the embargolifted. Bennett wanted more than$1 million in advance, $300,000in cash. The rest of the money wasto be wired into Bennett’s bankaccount so that it could be trans-

ferred to the Institute for Ad-vanced Strategic and PoliticalStudies, an Israeli-based thinktank with offices in Washingtonwhere Ash was a fundraiser, ac-cording to the document.

“Bennett stated that the waythey had the deal structured no-body would ever be able to proveit was anything illegal,” the docu-ment states. “Bennett stated thatit would be handled like a cam-paign payment and ensured thesource that [Marianne] Gingrichknew what she was doing. Ben-nett stated that the money was forGingrich and her husband andthat they needed buffers to pro-tect them.”

Marianne Gingrich said Thurs-day, “All that’s hogwash.”

Soghanalian asked for a tele-phone call with Marianne. Ben-nett said that “would spook Gin-grich” but that he would try toarrange it “for small talk abouttheir Paris trip,” the documentstates.

But Bennett never producedMarianne Gingrich. He reestab-lished contact with Soghanalianin February 1997, and the FBIasked for approval from head-quarters to keep recording theconversations “to develop evi-dence of possible Hobbs Act, Con-spiracy, and Bribery violations byBennett, Ash, Marianne Gingrich,and as yet unidentified federalofficials,” the document states.Ash did not return calls seekingcomment.

In June 1997, Soghanalian wasplanning to meet Gingrich andhis wife at a fundraiser in Miamiarranged by Ben Waldman, a Rea-gan administration official wholater was lobbyist JackAbramoff ’s business partner inthe controversial purchase of acasino cruise line in Florida.Waldman did not return calls forcomment.

FBI agents began preparing tobug the meeting, but Neil Gal-lagher, then deputy chief of theFBI’s criminal division, orderedthe investigation closed prior tothe fundraiser, people familarwith the case said. They said localagents were upset by Gallagher’smove.

“I’d have to refer any commentback to the FBI,” Gallagher saidThursday.

The FBI special agent in chargein Miami at the time, Paul Philip,who signed the document, said hecould not recall the case. Afterreviewing the document, he saidhe could understand why the casedid not progress.

“When you’re dealing withelected officials, you have to bereal careful,” he said. “Not thatthey can do anything to us. Buttheir reputations are so fragile, ifyou don’t really, truly try to do theright thing, you could really shaftsomebody.”

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Staff researcher Lucy Shackelfordcontributed to this report.

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The Gingriches together in the 1980s.

JOHN BAZEMORE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

A convicted arms dealer who cooperated with authorities told the FBI that Marianne Gingrich, shownduring her divorce from former House speaker Newt Gingrich, said she could secure legislative favors.

“There are so manyfalsehoods. The FBI,they should have beenprotecting me, notgoing after me. Thisis scary stuff.”Marianne Gingrich, former Housespeaker’s ex-wife

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