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A lot of people will owe Gary Condom an apology. I was very suspicious of him when the story first broke. :-\
Police may be close to arrest in Chandra Levy case
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police are close to making an arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case, one of Washington's most infamous cold cases, CNN affiliate KGO-TV reported Saturday.
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Chandra Levy was a Washington intern who had an affair with a congressman. She disappeared in 2001.
Police told Levy's parents Friday that an arrest was imminent, the San Francisco, California, television station reported.
Media reports said police were planning to arrest Ingmar Guandique, an inmate in the District of Columbia prison system.
Washington police did not return CNN's calls seeking comment.
"We appreciate all the hard work they did," Susan Levy, Chandra's mother, told another CNN affiliate, KXTV in Sacramento, California. "You want justice. You want the person incarcerated. It is still painful no matter what. Your child is dead and gone. But we are glad the police are doing something and making a difference."
Levy, 24, went missing April 30, 2001. Her remains were found May 22, 2002, by a man walking his dog in a remote area of Washington's Rock Creek Park.
The search for Levy and massive publicity that accompanied it stemmed largely from her connection to Rep. Gary Condit, D-California.
Condit and Levy, a federal Bureau of Prisons intern from Condit's district, had an affair, and police questioned Condit many times in connection with the murder. Police never named Condit as a suspect.
Condit, a member of Congress since 1989, lost the 2002 Democratic primary and left office at the end of his term. He later reportedly moved to Arizona.
Guandique was mentioned in a Washington Post investigation into the murder published last year.
The newspaper quoted former investigators in the case who said Guandique was convicted of assaulting two other women in the park where Levy's body was found.
Guandique admitted seeing Levy in the park, the newspaper reported.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/21/chandra.levy/index.html
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Another wonderful illegal alien doing the jobs Americans dont want to do.
WTF is it going to take before we get of these invaders and criminals????
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A lot of people will owe Gary Condom an apology.
Condom?
Anyway, he was cheating on his wife with someone who disappeared mysteriously. What does he expect?
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Illegals need to go immediately.
They are a plague and no different than locusts.
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Another wonderful illegal alien doing the jobs Americans dont want to do.
WTF is it going to take before we get of these invaders and criminals????
Who will you scapegoat once all illegals are gone?
Psychopathic criminals come in all shapes, sizes, and nationalities... with or without green cards.
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Who will you scapegoat once all illegals are gone?
Psychopathic criminals come in all shapes, sizes, and nationalities... with or without green cards.
We'll blame Canada!
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We'll blame Canada!
True to form, and just like the closing lines of the song of the same name:
"We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!"
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True to form, and just like the closing lines of the song of the same name:
"We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!"
We'll blame the juice...OR LACK THEREOF!
We are to blame. We spend all day releasing damaging contents into the air but the answer is the juice!
Can I try some of your juice? I'll give it a shot, then post a thread on the Positive Board. ;)
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Illegals need to go immediately.
They are a plague and no different than locusts.
QFT!
Obviously Jag jumped in...wow...surprising that she supports illegals ::)
She seem to really like anything that is illegal....
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We'll blame the juice...OR LACK THEREOF!
We are to blame. We spend all day releasing damaging contents into the air but the answer is the juice!
Can I try some of your juice? I'll give it a shot, then post a thread on the Positive Board. ;)
Please check your PMs
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funny how a cold case suddenly gets warm.
another distraction >:(
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I'm thinking this story is a smoke out and they're watching all the suspects to see which one tries to jet. Isn't it a little unusual for them to broadcast the approach of an arrest? I think it is.
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This savage invader also attacked other women in the park.
I guess that is ok right????
The fact of the matter is that if he were not here and deported when he came here, women would noit have been attacked, and possibly Levy not killed.
Until it happens to you or yours, keep spouting your nonsense how great these invaders are.
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It was because you didn't pay enough in taxes for social assisstance, leading to the illegals frusteration and feeling that he was forced to rob and kill someone to feed his children and the rest of his 'hard working family'.
It's your fault....
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It was because you didn't pay enough in taxes for social assisstance, leading to the illegals frusteration and feeling that he was forced to rob and kill someone to feed his children and the rest of his 'hard working family'.
It's your fault....
Interesting theory... how does it account for Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahlmer, Richard Ramirez, or Charles Manson?
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Interesting theory... how does it account for Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahlmer, Richard Ramirez, or Charles Manson?
May i ask why do you stand for illegal immigrants ?
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Interesting theory... how does it account for Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahlmer, Richard Ramirez, or Charles Manson?
Your logic is faulty. Those killers would not have killed Chandra Levy under any scenario since Bundy (Dead), Manson (Jail), Dahmer (Dead), Ramirez (???) are all accounted for.
This illegal alien scum previously assaulted other women in the same park and should have been deported after the first crime he committed.
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Your logic is faulty. Those killers would not have killed Chandra Levy under any scenario since Bundy (Dead), Manson (Jail), Dahmer (Dead), Ramirez (???) are all accounted for.
This illegal alien scum previously assaulted other women in the same park and should have been deported after the first crime he committed.
Watch your mouth, you cant say anything here against black, hispanic and muslim people. Seems like the mods are protecting their people now :(
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May i ask why do you stand for illegal immigrants ?
I don't stand for illegal aliens. I also don't stand for the scapegoating of illegal aliens either.
The argument being attempted is that murders are committed due to status. I believe criminals commit murder.
An individual's status within the country is irrelevant to the penchant for criminality
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I don't stand for illegal aliens. I also don't stand for the scapegoating of illegal aliens either.
The argument being attempted is that murders are committed due to status. I believe criminals commit murder.
An individual's status within the country is irrelevant to the penchant for criminality
I think the law should be enforced to stop all of them, i would personally go the "hard" way with them, even if that include the use of guns.
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I don't stand for illegal aliens. I also don't stand for the scapegoating of illegal aliens either.
The argument being attempted is that murders are committed due to status. I believe criminals commit murder.
An individual's status within the country is irrelevant to the penchant for criminality
Of course it is. If he were not here, Chandra Levy would still be alive.
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Your logic is faulty. Those killers would not have killed Chandra Levy under any scenario since Bundy (Dead), Manson (Jail), Dahmer (Dead), Ramirez (???) are all accounted for.
This illegal alien scum previously assaulted other women in the same park and should have been deported after the first crime he committed.
Is Chandra Levy who is only 1 person, more significant than the 25 direct victims (14 of which were killed) by Richard Ramirez, or the 17 victims of Jeffrey Dahmer, or the 30+ murders committed by Ted Bundy.
My point is, a penchant for deviant psychopathic criminality is not reserved exclusively for illegal aliens.
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Is Chandra Levy who is only 1 person, more significant than the 25 direct victims (14 of which were killed) by Richard Ramirez, or the 17 victims of Jeffrey Dahmer, or the 30+ murders committed by Ted Bundy.
My point is, a penchant for deviant psychopathic criminality is not reserved exclusively for illegal aliens.
sadly those illegal aliens are the ones doing it so they must return to their countries and work for some pesos and beans. Canada is a great place for them, your country just love them all so why not taking them?
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sadly those illegal aliens are the ones doing it so they must return to their countries and work for some pesos and beans. Canada is a great place for them, your country just love them all so why not taking them?
Bundy, Dahmer, Ramirez and Manson were all homegrown psycopathic serial killers. All of them "BORN IN THE USA"!
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Is Chandra Levy who is only 1 person, more significant than the 25 direct victims (14 of which were killed) by Richard Ramirez, or the 17 victims of Jeffrey Dahmer, or the 30+ murders committed by Ted Bundy.
My point is, a penchant for deviant psychopathic criminality is not reserved exclusively for illegal aliens.
Answer me this: Would Chandra Levy be alive today if this illegal alien were deported after the first assault he commited?
YES OR NO?????????
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Bundy, Dahmer, Ramirez and Manson were all homegrown psycopathic serial killers. All of them "BORN IN THE USA"!
yes they are americans, big deal, we are talking about the illegal aliens right?
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Answer me this: Would Chandra Levy be alive today if this illegal alien were deported after the first assault he commited?
YES OR NO?????????
Neither one of us can truly answer that.... afterall, ...the beltway snipers could have gotten her. ;D
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Neither one of us can truly answer that.... afterall, ...the beltway snipers could have gotten her. ;D
nice way to evade and simples YES NO answer
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yes they are americans, big deal, we are talking about the illegal aliens right?
No, we were talking about psychopathic killers. Only perverse scapegoaters want to make it about illegals.
The thread title is: "Police may be close to arrest in Chandra Levy case"
Such an arrest would be made because she was killed! Not because someone may or may not have legal status.
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nice way to evade and simples YES NO answer
Only simpletons believe things can be broken down into such simple absolutes. ;D
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Only simpletons believe things can be broken down into such simple absolutes. ;D
you try to make it look funny but it isnt. may i ask about your educational background again?
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Neither one of us can truly answer that.... afterall, ...the beltway snipers could have gotten her. ;D
Funny you mention that, Jon Lee malvo was an illegal alien too. look it up.
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you try to make it look funny but it isnt. may i ask about your educational background again?
WTF? I finnushed skool. I dun so gud, they wanted me to do turd grade twice, and 7th grad 3 tymes! (http://www.jaguarenterprises.net/images/em/harhar.gif)
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WTF? I finnushed skool. I dun so gud, they wanted me to do turd grade twice, and 7th grad 3 tymes! (http://www.jaguarenterprises.net/images/em/harhar.gif)
I ask you this because the answers you give are showing theres a lack of education, i just wonder how you and some others here comment about economy, arts, and everything else, and most never went to uni...
Again, not hating, just trying to understand
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Funny you mention that, Jon Lee malvo was an illegal alien too. look it up.
You mean the 17 yr. old minor child influenced and led astray by the adult homegrown former US Army veteran?
I believe his status was that of an immigrant rather than illegal alien, ...but I could be mistaken about that.
Nevertheless, it has nothing to do with his psychosis.
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I ask you this because the answers you give are showing theres a lack of education, i just wonder how you and some others here comment about economy, arts, and everything else, and most never went to uni...
Again, not hating, just trying to understand
She sure knows a lot about farting and how to prevent it! She likes urine therapy, too. She knows a little something about the soviets and how they handle education as well. That's good because I'll need proponents. You are one exceptionally well-rounded individual. You're sexy as fuck, too! ;)
jaguarenterprises, serious question...
Why are you so against farting?
Is it really for the good of life on earth, or did you have a bad childhood experience(s) with farting?
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She sure knows a lot about farting and how to prevent it! She likes urine therapy, too. She knows a little something about the soviets and how they handle education as well. That's good because I'll need proponents. You are one exceptionally well-rounded individual. You're sexy as fuck, too! ;)
jaguarenterprises, serious question...
Why are you so against farting?
Is it really for the good of life on earth, or did you have a bad childhood experience(s) with farting?
Ok, you stumped here... I have absolutely no idea how to respond to this. {lol} :-X
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Ok, you stumped here... I have absolutely no idea how to respond to this. {lol} :-X
You have a lot of passion and that's admirable. Where do you get it?
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You have a lot of passion and that's admirable. Where do you get it?
(http://www.jaguarenterprises.net/images/firedboss.jpg)
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(http://www.jaguarenterprises.net/images/firedboss.jpg)
that girl got fired right after posiung for that pic
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an illegal shot and killed a cop in my town last year.
he had been bounced, arrested for coke, had warrants, all that good stuff.
if they would have sent him back home in 02 or 03 when they first caught him breaking the law, it wouldn't have been in issue in 2008.
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Chandra Levy Trial to Begin After 9 Years
Published October 17, 2010 | Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- If one person is associated with the mysterious slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy, it isn't the man who will soon be tried on charges he murdered her. It's former California congressman Gary Condit, whose political career imploded after he was romantically linked to the woman and became the No. 1 suspect.
Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, goes on trial Monday for Levy's 2001 killing. However, he's not even a blip on the national consciousness of the case, which dominated news coverage until the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks rendered it an afterthought.
While police no longer believe Condit had anything to do with Levy's death, his presence will continue to hang over the trial. Condit's spokesman, Bert Fields, said Condit expects to be called as a witness at Guandique's trial, though he has not been subpoenaed.
Fields said Condit will cooperate fully with authorities. But the ex-congressman, who is writing a book about his experience, will not comment on the trial until it ends.
Bill Miller, a spokesman for the prosecutors' office, declined comment on the case and whether Condit will be called as a witness, citing a gag order issued earlier this month.
Defense attorneys are also subject to the gag order. But when Guandique was charged in 2009 with Levy's murder, they criticized what they saw as a botched investigation. Guandique escaped scrutiny in large part because of the frenzy around Condit.
The former congressman never admitted an affair but said he was friends with Levy, though the intern had told family members the two had a romantic relationship.
"This flawed investigation, characterized by the many mistakes and missteps of the Metropolitan Police Department and every federal agency that has attempted to solve this case, will not end with the simple issuance of an arrest warrant against Mr. Guandique," said the attorneys, Santha Sonenberg and Maria Hawilo.
At a pretrial hearing Thursday, Sonenberg said police were so desperate to get a confession from Guandique to bolster their case that in 2004 and 2005, police tried to establish a phony penpal relationship with Guandique while he was in prison serving a 10-year sentence, using the pseudonym "Maria Lopez." The ruse did not work.
"It goes to the sort of antics, the sort of shenanigans, the lengths to which they've gone to prosecute Mr. Guandique," Sonenberg said.
Then-U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor has acknowledged the case lacked DNA or physical evidence linking Guandique to Levy. And Guandique never confessed to police -- in fact, he passed a lie-detector test denying involvement in Levy's disappearance, though prosecutors now question the validity of that test.
But Taylor cited significant circumstantial evidence, including numerous confessions that Guandique purportedly made to other inmates. And Levy's body was found in a wooded section of the city's Rock Creek Park, where Guandique was convicted of assaulting two other young women in 2001.
At a pretrial hearing last month, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Haines said Guandique has a "signature confession style." She said he has discussed killing Levy with many people, giving each person starkly different details.
Whether jurors believe those confessions will be key. The defense wants to present expert testimony from a university professor on the pitfalls of accounts from jailhouse snitches. However, prosecutors say jurors should be allowed to judge the credibility of witnesses for themselves. Superior Court Judge Gerald I. Fisher has indicated he will not allow the vast majority of the professor's proposed testimony.
As for Condit, exactly what role he will play in the trial is unclear. Defense attorneys could be tempted to remind jurors that police were suspicious of Condit for so long, said attorney George Jackson, a Chicago-based lawyer with the Polsinelli Shughart law firm and a former federal prosecutor.
Jackson said the defense will have to tread lightly because jurors will be put off if they sense attorneys are trying to make an innocent man into a scapegoat. And the government will surely be ready to counter suggestions that Condit was involved. But because Condit is so closely linked to the case in the public's eye, the defense has some leeway to approach the issue with subtlety.
"If it's feasible to suggest that this guy may have been involved, you put it out there" to help create reasonable doubt in a jury's mind, Jackson said. "But it's a dangerous thing to do because you don't know if there will be a backlash."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/17/chandra-levy-trial-begin-years/
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This savage invader also attacked other women in the park.
I guess that is ok right????
The fact of the matter is that if he were not here and deported when he came here, women would noit have been attacked, and possibly Levy not killed.
Until it happens to you or yours, keep spouting your nonsense how great these invaders are.
3 Spare us all your DIVA-ESQUE dramatics... Do you realize (obviously not) how many interns were killed in Washington DC by the same congressmen they were dating/seeing? The numbers are troubling to say the least. Immediately before even questioning Condit, the police were making it clear he was not a suspect...why not? Monica Lewinski was smart in going public with the affair she had with Clinton...and why did she do that? I am sure she realized how deep she was in the situation as well as she may have received THREATS from that scum bag Clinton and therefore told her story to the news before the news told the story of her body being found somewhere and Clinton proclaiming innocence. America is about as scumbag as possible. Either its congressmen and/or politicians are being found in park bathrooms or taking wide stances in airport bathrooms looking for gay sex, or they are involved in pedophilia, are sending interns both male and female e-mails of the most salacious nature etc etc or some other deviant act. You are sitting here believing this tripe of some supposed person other than Condit killed Sandra and her it is nine years later and the cops are talking about making an arrest. Obviously Condit is about to make some political move and he does not want this Sandra Levy case surfacing as he does so. So what's better than getting a scape goat to take the rap, so that when Condit goes public, the public and media will not start hounding him over where is Sandra Levy.
BTW... If there was any chance that this person really did kill Sandra and he was supposedly deported before doing so, there are plenty of nutcases in america who would have done the job in his place. Remember America is the most domestically violent nation on the planet.
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funny how a cold case suddenly gets warm.
another distraction >:(
rofl
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3 Spare us all your DIVA-ESQUE dramatics... Do you realize (obviously not) how many interns were killed in Washington DC by the same congressmen they were dating/seeing? The numbers are troubling to say the least. Immediately before even questioning Condit, the police were making it clear he was not a suspect...why not? Monica Lewinski was smart in going public with the affair she had with Clinton...and why did she do that? I am sure she realized how deep she was in the situation as well as she may have received THREATS from that scum bag Clinton and therefore told her story to the news before the news told the story of her body being found somewhere and Clinton proclaiming innocence. America is about as scumbag as possible. Either its congressmen and/or politicians are being found in park bathrooms or taking wide stances in airport bathrooms looking for gay sex, or they are involved in pedophilia, are sending interns both male and female e-mails of the most salacious nature etc etc or some other deviant act. You are sitting here believing this tripe of some supposed person other than Condit killed Sandra and her it is nine years later and the cops are talking about making an arrest. Obviously Condit is about to make some political move and he does not want this Sandra Levy case surfacing as he does so. So what's better than getting a scape goat to take the rap, so that when Condit goes public, the public and media will not start hounding him over where is Sandra Levy.
BTW... If there was any chance that this person really did kill Sandra and he was supposedly deported before doing so, there are plenty of nutcases in america who would have done the job in his place. Remember America is the most domestically violent nation on the planet.
I heard they were in the process of setting Monica up as a fatal attraction type stalker,
...until she was able to produce the DNA splattered dress that immediately put the kibosh on those plans.
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lol
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Ex-Rep. Condit: No involvement in Levy killing
(AP) – 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former California Rep. Gary Condit told jurors Monday that he didn't murder Chandra Levy and insisted he cooperated fully with police when they investigated the Washington intern's disappearance nearly a decade ago.
But he continued to evade direct questions on cross-examination about whether he had an intimate relationship with Levy, saying "we're all entitled to some level of privacy."
A Salvadoran immigrant, Ingmar Guandique, is on trial for murdering and attempting to assault Levy back in 2001. Prosecutors say Guandique had a history of assaulting female joggers in Rock Creek Park, where Levy's remains were found.
But it is Levy's relationship with Condit that vaulted her disappearance into a national sensation nine years ago. Condit was once the primary suspect of police but they no longer believe he had anything to do with Levy's death.
Condit testified Monday that he fully cooperated with the police investigation, despite his concerns that detectives were "incompetent" and out to get him.
The only question he refused to answer, he said, was when a detective asked in an initial interview if he'd had a sexual relationship with Levy.
Condit said he responded: "If you can tell me why that's relevant, I can answer the question." He said the detective never answered and the interview ended.
Until that interview — about a week after Levy went missing — Condit said he never realized he was considered a suspect. He had called D.C. police at the urging of Levy's father to make sure they were taking Levy's disappearance seriously, and he assumed that initial interview with police was to provide him an update on the investigation's status.
Prosecutor Amanda Haines never asked Condit if he and Levy had an affair, but she did ask why he never acknowledged an affair. His voice broke slightly, and he said it was "purely based on principle."
"I think we're all entitled to some level of privacy ... It seems like in this country we've lost a sense of decency. I didn't commit any crime; I don't think I've done anything wrong."
On cross-examination, though, public defender Mario Hawilo put the question to Condit directly: Did you ever have an intimate relationship with Levy?
"I have already stated I'm not going to respond to those questions," Condit said.
Hawilo persisted until Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher told her to move on.
The issue came up repeatedly throughout the cross-examination, with Hawilo asking at one point: "Are you refusing to respond because you think the answer will incriminate you?"
At another point, Hawilo suggested Condit failed to give police the whole truth about his relationship. Police asked him in one interview, "What was the nature of your relationship with Miss Levy?" and Condit responded he was friends with her. In his testimony Tuesday, he insisted he gave the full truth to police but declined to answer whether he equated a sexual relationship with friendship.
Eventually, the judge rubbed his face in frustration and called the attorneys for a bench conference. He never required Condit to answer the question directly about his relationship with Levy.
Throughout his testimony, Condit, a Democrat who represented parts of central California, referred to police investigators that he believed were hounding him unfairly and refusing to believe legitimate alibis he provided to them. He constantly referred to the media attention as a "circus" and said investigators were "out of line" when they demanded to interview his wife.
Condit also became emotional when he described how the Sept. 11 attacks wiped his name from the headlines. He said there were 100 reporters staking out his apartment that morning. After the planes hit, they were all gone, he said.
At the end of his direct testimony, Haines asked Condit directly: Did you murder Chandra Levy? He responded "No." He also responded "no, ma'am" to the question of whether he had anything to do with her disappearance.
Condit testified that he last saw Levy a week before she disappeared and they discussed whether he could help her make some contacts with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies where she hoped to work. Condit told her he would help.
"We never had a fight. We never had any cross words," he said.
Dressed in a blue oxford shirt and a sportcoat, Condit's hair has gone completely gray. He described himself as retired.
In the courtroom, taking careful notes on his testimony, was Chandra's mother Susan Levy, who has been in the courtroom throughout the trial and was fiercely critical of Condit throughout the investigation.
Prosecutors acknowledged in their opening statement that police failed in the Levy investigation by focusing on Condit to the exclusion of others, allowing Guandique to "hide in plain sight" as investigators failed to link Levy's disappearance with the attacks on the other joggers in Rock Creek Park, even though Levy had looked up information on Rock Creek Park on her laptop right before she disappeared.
Defense attorneys have said the investigation was bungled so badly that it has been impossibly compromised and that Guandique has been made a scapegoat.
During Monday's cross-examination, Hawilo questioned Condit's assertion that he'd been fully cooperative. They asked why he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a grand jury interview in April 2002 and suggested he was worried about incriminating himself.
Condit testified that he was despondent because he'd just lost his primary re-election campaign and he thought the prosecutor "was there to do what he could to try to trick me or cause me pain."
Condit left the courthouse, joined by his daughter, and did not answer any questions. Susan Levy also declined comment through her attorney.
Associated Press writer Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iZA-Inp1IEZ_aFleuuGYktQogS4g?docId=e43aebece34648d1b2b4155d2b26cf9e
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In the least surprising news of the day . . . .
Condit's DNA found on Levy's underwear
From Paul Courson, CNN
November 10, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- Former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's semen was found on underwear belonging to Chandra Levy, according to an FBI biologist testifying Wednesday in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, who is accused of murdering the Washington intern in 2001.
The panties were retrieved in May 2001 by investigators searching Levy's apartment in the days after her parents reported her missing. Her body was found over a year later in Washington's Rock Creek Park.
The testimony addresses the question of whether Condit, a sitting congressman from California at the time Levy vanished, was having an affair with the intern, who had just turned 24 when she disappeared.
The biologist, Alan Giusti, testified for prosecutors that no DNA was recovered from a separate pair of underwear and sports tights recovered from the crime scene.
Regarding lab tests of the underwear recovered from Levy's apartment, Giusti said that "the sperm DNA profile was compared to and matched to Gary Condit."
Condit, who testified in the trial on November 1, has refused to address the question of whether he had sex with Levy.
"We've lost our feeling for common decency," Condit told prosecutor Amanda Haines when she asked in court if the two had been intimate. "I didn't commit any crime. I didn't do anything wrong."
The disappearance of Levy, then an intern for the federal Bureau of Prisons, drew national attention after her parents discovered a connection with Condit. The congressman was never a suspect in the case, but was questioned intensively for details as to Levy's whereabouts.
Prosecutors believe Guandique, a reputed member of the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, attacked Levy while she was jogging and then killed her when she began to scream.
Guandique denies that he attacked Levy. There has been no physical evidence linking him to the assault, leaving prosecutors to base their case largely on Guandique's alleged jailhouse admission that he killed the young intern.
Partly as a result, prosecutors on Wednesday asked the trial judge to drop two of the six counts against Guandique, including a count of first degree sexual assault. He is still, however, facing first degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery charges.
The judge rejected a defense motion to acquit Guandique on the remaining counts.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/10/dc.levy.murder.trial/index.html?hpt=T2
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Jury convicts man in killing of Chandra Levy in 2001
From Kelly Marshall Smoot, CNN
November 22, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- After more than three days of deliberations, jurors on Monday convicted Ingmar Guandique of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2001 death of Washington intern Chandra Levy.
As the verdict was read, Levy's mother, Susan, stared intently at Guandique. Several jurors wiped their eyes afterward.
Levy, a 24-year-old California native, was in Washington working as an intern for the Bureau of Prisons when she was last seen on May 1, 2001. Her skull was found over a year later, on May 22, 2002, in Washington's Rock Creek Park. But police didn't arrest Guandique until February 2009. He was then serving a 10-year sentence for attacking two other women in the park and had reportedly spoken about killing Levy.
"It's been nearly 10 years since the promise of a young life was lost in Rock Creek Park," Ronald Machen, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters Monday afternoon. "Today's verdict does send a message for a murderer to be held accountable. It's never too late for justice to be served."
Following an 11-day trial, jurors deliberated for three days and then for another two hours Monday. They notified Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher about 11:45 a.m. that they had reached a verdict, entering the courtroom at 12:35 p.m. ET.
Speaking after their dismissal, jurors told reporters they took the time to examine each piece of evidence and consider it.
"We were very careful to evaluate all the evidence, and it was a decision based on everything we had," said juror Susan Kelly, a journalist.
Guandique, 29, will face a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole when he is sentenced February 11. The jury convicted him of one count of murder with kidnapping and a second count of murder with attempted robbery.
After the verdict, Susan Levy asked reporters, "What difference does it make," and then answered her own question.
"You, the prosecutors, defense, the jury, the police, the public and individual citizens, as well as the media, both the written media and the visual media, we all make a difference," she said. "... It makes a difference to find the right person who is responsible for my daughter's death or for anybody else's death."
Regardless of the sentence Guandique is given, "I have a lifetime sentence of a lost limb missing from our family tree," she said. "It's painful. I live with it every day. ... There's always going to be a feeling of sadness."
Emily Grinstead told reporters that she and fellow jurors were mindful not to rush a decision. While confident they reached the right verdict, she said that "doesn't mean that I don't wish we didn't have to be here today."
"You're dealing with somebody's life," Grinstead said. "Two people's lives. I don't take that lightly."
Asked what she would say to Susan Levy, juror Linda Norton said, "I think she has to take from this what she will. We cannot bring back her daughter. ... We did the best we could with the evidence we were given."
Prosecutors argued that Guandique, a reputed member of the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, attacked Levy while she was jogging in Washington's Rock Creek Park. After her skull was found, a search turned up other remains of Levy's, as well as clothing later identified as hers strewn down the side of a ravine. Her running shoes were unlaced, and her clothes were turned inside out. Her pants were knotted in tight restraints around her legs.
Prosecutor Amanda Haines, during her closing argument, cited what she portrayed as confessions that Guandique allegedly made to a cellmate as he served time for other attacks, as well as remarks he allegedly made to a female pen pal.
Defense attorney Santha Sonenberg emphasized the largely circumstantial nature of the case, including what prosecutors have acknowledged was a lack of DNA evidence, a lack of witnesses and only secondhand accounts of Guandique's alleged confessions.
Both the women who Guandique also attacked in the park -- including one on the same day Levy went missing -- spoke at the trial, testimony that Kelly called "powerful." He had pleaded guilty for his role in those attacks, and was set to be released in September 2010.
The disappearance of Levy drew national attention after her parents discovered a connection with Gary Condit, who was then a sitting congressman from California. Condit was never a suspect in the case, but he was questioned intensively for details about Levy's whereabouts.
He testified in the trial earlier this month, but refused to address a question about whether he had sex with Levy. An FBI forensic expert later confirmed Condit's semen had been found in underwear retrieved from Levy's apartment in the days after her parents reported her missing.
"We've lost our feeling for common decency. I didn't commit any crime. I didn't do anything wrong," he said.
Condit said several times during his testimony that the media frenzy surrounding Levy's disappearance was hard to handle, including a helicopter flight over his California home while his daughter and her friends were sunbathing at the family's pool. "They reported that I had young women in bikinis at my house," he said.
Juror Grinstead pointed out that it wasn't just police that were sidetracked and focused for weeks on the wrong person. Asked who also was on the wrong track, she told reporters, "You all."
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier defended authorities' handling of the case Monday afternoon, saying it sometimes takes time to find evidence and suspects. The U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia recently opened a "cold case" unit, which Machen credited for leading to four convictions in the past year for murders that dated back as far as 20 years.
"It's not like it is on TV. Cases can be very complicated," said Lanier, who became chief in 2007. "You never give up, regardless of criticism, regardless of mistakes. And I think that's what happened in this case."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/22/dc.chandra.levy.trial/index.html?hpt=T2
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Docu-Drama Details Chandra Levy's Murder, Affair With Gary Condit on 10th Anniversary of Her Death
By Hollie McKay
Published April 29, 2011
FoxNews.com
Chandra Levy came to Washington D.C to complete an internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2000. The bright and beautiful California student, who had high hopes of one day joining the FBI, soon became romantically involved with married Democratic home-district congressman, Gary Condit, 30 years her senior.
But in May 2001, just as her internship was coming to an end, Levy disappeared and a media firestorm ensued as many pondered foul play on the high-profile politician’s behalf. A year later, Levy’s remains were found in Washington’s Rock Creek Park.
Ten years later, the front-page murder mystery has made its way into the hands of Hollywood.
This Sunday, on the 10th anniversary of Levy’s murder, TLC will air the docu-movie “Who Killed Chandra Levy?” combining original footage and interviews of those close to the case with re-enacted dramatizations – detailing everything from Levy’s life in Washington, affair with Condit, and the struggle to solve the scandalous case.
“It had sex, it had secrets, it had a Congressman suspected of murder, it had grieving parents who were on TV pleading,” Scott Higham, one of the Washington Post reporters instrumental in breaking the murder mystery and who is interviewed in the two-hour special, told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “Congressmen in this town are accused of many things, but it is rare that they’re accused of murder. The idea that a Congressman may be somehow connected to the homicide of a pretty young intern was just irresistible."
Nonetheless, it wasn’t until 2009 – as a result of intensive investigative journalism by Higham and his Washington Post cohorts – that the true killer was revealed: former construction worker and illegal immigrant from El Salvador Ingmar Guandique, who was already in jail for similar attacks. Guandique’s was sentenced to 60 years behind bars in February.
“The deeper we got into the case, and the more interviews we conducted, the more and more convinced we became that Gary Condit was not a suspect and should never have been a suspect in this case,” Higham explained.
However, Higham said much heartache could have been avoided had the initial investigative team worked more diligently to put the puzzle pieces together.
“At the time, there were rumors about Igmar and press reports about him attacking women in Rock Creek Park, but the police department completely turned down any speculation and said he was not a suspect,” he said. “So in the end, there was a lot of collateral damage that didn’t need to happen. A lot of people were hurt by this and none of that should have happened. Chandra Levy’s family had to wait 10 years for justice. Gary Condit’s life was ruined and it put enormous strain on his family. It was a very painful experience that didn’t need to happen if the police department had done its job back in the summer of 2000.”
But 10 years on, and despite being totally cleared of any involvement in Levy’s slaying, it seems Condit’s name is still tainted.
“To this day, people come up to me all the time after we talk about the case and say ‘Are you sure that Gary Condit didn’t have anything to do with this? Are you really sure?’ People will always have doubts about the case because it seems like it was a slam dunk to arrest an illegal immigrant who was attacking other women in the same park Chandra went running in, and around the same place her body was found,” he added. “(I hope the viewers) learn that the press and the police department and the FBI failed to uphold the trust that they have with the public. The hope is that people will use this as a textbook example of what not to do in a homicide investigation and what not to do in a high profile media case. Stick to the facts, be responsible and try to do the right thing.”
“Finding Chandra” premieres Sunday, May 1 on TLC at 9PM (ET/PT).
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/04/29/docu-drama-details-chandra-levys-murder-affair-gary-condit-10th-anniversary/?test=faces
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Judge grants new trial in death of intern Chandra Levy
Published June 04, 2015
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – A judge on Thursday formally granted a retrial in the case of a man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy, a move that had been largely expected after prosecutors dropped their opposition to a retrial last month.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher on Thursday granted a motion for a new trial in the case of Ingmar Guandique, who was convicted in 2010 of killing Levy.
Guandique's attorneys had been pushing for a new trial because they said a key witness in the case gave false or misleading testimony. Prosecutors last month told a judge they believe the jury's verdict was correct but that they would no longer oppose the new-trial request. Prosecutors said at the time that the "passage of time and the unique circumstances of this case" had made opposing a new trial more difficult.
Prosecutors and lawyers for Guandique are scheduled to return to court next week and are expected to set a new trial date then.
Levy's 2001 disappearance created a national sensation after the 24-year-old California native was romantically linked with then-U.S. Rep. Gary Condit. Condit, a California Democrat, was ultimately ruled out as a suspect.
In late 2013, Guandique's lawyers requested a new trial after prosecutors brought to the judge issues with one of their key witnesses, Guandique's one-time cellmate, Armando Morales.
Morales testified that Guandique had confided in him that he was responsible for Levy's death, and because there was no physical evidence linking Guandique to Levy's murder, Morales provided some of the trial's most powerful testimony. But Morales also testified that he didn't know how to come forward with information to law enforcement when, in fact, he had previously provided information.
Guandique's lawyers argued that prosecutors knew or should have known that Morales' testimony was problematic and investigated further. Guandique's lawyers said Thursday they plan to ask for sanctions against prosecutors but did not specify in court what those might be. They also said they intend to argue that Guandique should be released on bond.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/04/judge-grants-new-trial-in-death-intern-chandra-levy/?intcmp=trending
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Judge grants new trial in death of intern Chandra Levy
Published June 04, 2015
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – A judge on Thursday formally granted a retrial in the case of a man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy, a move that had been largely expected after prosecutors dropped their opposition to a retrial last month.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher on Thursday granted a motion for a new trial in the case of Ingmar Guandique, who was convicted in 2010 of killing Levy.
Guandique's attorneys had been pushing for a new trial because they said a key witness in the case gave false or misleading testimony. Prosecutors last month told a judge they believe the jury's verdict was correct but that they would no longer oppose the new-trial request. Prosecutors said at the time that the "passage of time and the unique circumstances of this case" had made opposing a new trial more difficult.
Prosecutors and lawyers for Guandique are scheduled to return to court next week and are expected to set a new trial date then.
Levy's 2001 disappearance created a national sensation after the 24-year-old California native was romantically linked with then-U.S. Rep. Gary Condit. Condit, a California Democrat, was ultimately ruled out as a suspect.
In late 2013, Guandique's lawyers requested a new trial after prosecutors brought to the judge issues with one of their key witnesses, Guandique's one-time cellmate, Armando Morales.
Morales testified that Guandique had confided in him that he was responsible for Levy's death, and because there was no physical evidence linking Guandique to Levy's murder, Morales provided some of the trial's most powerful testimony. But Morales also testified that he didn't know how to come forward with information to law enforcement when, in fact, he had previously provided information.
Guandique's lawyers argued that prosecutors knew or should have known that Morales' testimony was problematic and investigated further. Guandique's lawyers said Thursday they plan to ask for sanctions against prosecutors but did not specify in court what those might be. They also said they intend to argue that Guandique should be released on bond.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/04/judge-grants-new-trial-in-death-intern-chandra-levy/?intcmp=trending
Things like this just make you wonder about holding prosecutors accountable.
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What the heck?? I feel bad for her family.
Charges dismissed in retrial of man convicted of Chandra Levy murder
Published July 28, 2016
FoxNews.com
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, DC on Thursday moved to dismiss the case -- and a retrial -- against Ingmar Guandique, the illegal immigrant previously convicted of murdering intern Chandra Levy in May 2001, citing "unforeseen developments."
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The U.S. Attorney's Office dropped charges against Ingmar Guandique on Thursday. (AP)
Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, is set to be released to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for removal proceedings.
The 2010 conviction of Guandique -- and the 60-year prison sentenced imposed on him at the time -- was vacated and a new trial was ordered in 2015 based on what Guandique's defense team said was new evidence.
"Today, in the interests of justice and based on recent unforeseen developments that were investigated over the past week, the Office moved to dismiss the case charging Ingmar Guandique with the May 2001 murder of Chandra Levy," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. "The Office has concluded that it can no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt."
Levy's 2001 disappearance created a national sensation after the Modesto, California, native, and intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was romantically linked with then-Congressman Gary Condit.
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July 11, 2001: Then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., leaves his Washington apartment.
The remains of the 24-year-old were found in Washington's Rock Creek Park in 2002. Prosecutors argued her death fit a pattern of attacks Guandique committed on female joggers.
Condit was a suspect in Levy's murder for a period of time, and Guandique's defense team reportedly planned to introduce evidence at the retrial implicating him in Levy's death.
Condit, a Democrat, left Congress in 2003 after losing his party's primary to an ex-aide.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/28/charges-dismissed-in-retrial-man-convicted-chandra-levy-murder.html
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From a couple months back. Just fills in the story a little bit.
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(Above) New life: Condit was never charged with any crime, and in 2003 moved to Arizona with his wife Carolyn (above with her huband in 2012) after losing his congressional seat.
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Defense lawyers in the upcoming Chandra Levy murder retrial plan to present evidence suggesting it was Gary Condit who murdered the 24-year-old college student.
Attorneys for convicted killer Ingmar Guandique were granted a retrial in the case last year when it was revealed that a key witness had lied on the stand during the trial, and will be back in court this October.
That witness was Condit, a former California Congressman who knew Chandra but refused to answer questions about the nature of their relationship while under oath during her murder trial, despite the fact that the married father of two had admitted to authorities that he had an affair with the intern.
Guandique’s attorney Eugene Ohm accused Condit of lying on the stand earlier this year, claiming that notes from a police interview his did after Chandra's disappearance conflicted with his 2010 testimony in the case. Ohm did not elaborate.
Condit, 68, was considered a person of interest in Chandra's disappearance and murder prior to Guandique's conviction but never named as an official suspect by police.
dailymail.co.uk
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What the heck?? I feel bad for her family.
Charges dismissed in retrial of man convicted of Chandra Levy murder
Published July 28, 2016
FoxNews.com
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, DC on Thursday moved to dismiss the case -- and a retrial -- against Ingmar Guandique, the illegal immigrant previously convicted of murdering intern Chandra Levy in May 2001, citing "unforeseen developments."
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The U.S. Attorney's Office dropped charges against Ingmar Guandique on Thursday. (AP)
Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, is set to be released to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for removal proceedings.
The 2010 conviction of Guandique -- and the 60-year prison sentenced imposed on him at the time -- was vacated and a new trial was ordered in 2015 based on what Guandique's defense team said was new evidence.
"Today, in the interests of justice and based on recent unforeseen developments that were investigated over the past week, the Office moved to dismiss the case charging Ingmar Guandique with the May 2001 murder of Chandra Levy," the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. "The Office has concluded that it can no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt."
Levy's 2001 disappearance created a national sensation after the Modesto, California, native, and intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, was romantically linked with then-Congressman Gary Condit.
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July 11, 2001: Then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., leaves his Washington apartment.
The remains of the 24-year-old were found in Washington's Rock Creek Park in 2002. Prosecutors argued her death fit a pattern of attacks Guandique committed on female joggers.
Condit was a suspect in Levy's murder for a period of time, and Guandique's defense team reportedly planned to introduce evidence at the retrial implicating him in Levy's death.
Condit, a Democrat, left Congress in 2003 after losing his party's primary to an ex-aide.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/28/charges-dismissed-in-retrial-man-convicted-chandra-levy-murder.html
I do...for him having been wrongly convicted. I already knew it wasn't him and it was ridiculous to be found guilty based on inmate testimony.
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Surprising he wasn't invited to the White House!
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Court ruling in murder of intern Chandra Levy reignites speculation on sensational Washington story
By Chad Pergram
Published July 31, 2016
FoxNews.com
It will again fuel the speculation. The wonder. The whispers.
The conjecture may not be fair. But it will inevitably happen.
A decision by Washington D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin to “dismiss without prejudice” the murder conviction of Ingmar Guandique is likely to foster enduring chatter theory, which hasn’t dissipated in the nation’s capital in 15 years.
In 2010, the feds convicted Guandique -- an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador -- in the murder of then 24-year-old Washington intern Chandra Levy nine years earlier. Now prosecutors appealed to the court to drop the conviction as the court prepared for a retrial this fall because their case against Guandique crumbled.
The U.S. Attorney told the court that his office “could no longer prove the murder case against Mr. Guandique beyond a reasonable doubt.” Prosecutors based their conviction on the testimony of what later proved to be an unreliable informant who coughed up information from the slammer.
Prosecutors halted their efforts against Guandique following the revelation of an illegally-taped conversation between gang leader Armando Morales and bit-part actress Babs Proller.
Morales’s information was key in the conviction of Guandique. Morales and Proller got to know each other when they were neighbors. Proller’s recording purportedly reveals he lied on the witness stand during Guandique’s 2010 trial, which earned him a 60-year sentence for murdering Levy.
" 'Homeboy, I killed that bitch, but I didn’t rape her,’ ” Morales testified in court about what Guandique told him about Levy. Morales asked for installation in the government’s witness protection program for his testimony.
“It is now clear that the jailhouse informant, who was central to the government case, was a perjurer who too easily manipulated the prosecutors,” said Guandique’s attorneys.
And so, the question today is the same as it was 15 years ago: Who killed Chandra Levy?
The disappearance and murder of Levy has and always will be a Capitol Hill story. That’s because at the time of Levy’s death, she was having an affair with then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif.
Carnival atmospheres frequently descend on Capitol Hill: Donald Trump meeting with House and Senate Republicans as he did a few weeks ago. A lineup of baseball stars like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa appearing at a hearing on doping. Bono and Alicia Keys cruising through the Capitol’s marble corridors in an effort to secure funding for AIDS research.
But no one has seen a journalism jamboree like the one that unfolded around Condit in the spring and summer of 2001. The Levy case engrossed the entire press corps. News crews from around the world encamped on the Capitol.
Reporters staked out Condit’s office. They stalked him near the House gym in the Rayburn House Office Building. They pursued him in and out at the House Agriculture Committee. They waited at all hours for Condit at his home in Washington’s Adams-Morgan neighborhood. They even hung out in front of the home of his chief of staff in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Va.
There were no suspects in the Levy case. But Condit was eerily mute. His quiet fomented disquiet. What did he know? What did he do? Did he do anything?
Prosecutors called Condit to testify in the 2010 Guandique case. When Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Haines presented Condit in court, she noted that the former congressman “was having an affair with Chandra Levy.” She later said those rendezvous had “nothing to do with the murder of Chandra Levy.”
But earlier this year, Guandique’s defense team planned to introduce evidence at a retrial that could implicate Condit.
“Condit was fully aware of the cost he could pay if his affair with Ms. Levy became public,” said the defense in court filings. “He therefore had an obvious motive to kill Ms. Levy in order to keep the relationship secret, and an equally powerful motive to cover up the circumstances of her death if she died while she was with him -- either through intentional conduct or otherwise.”
Back in 2001, all eyes -- including those of media and law enforcement -- focused on Condit.
The case baffled investigators. There was no murder weapon. They found no body (until 2002). No obvious motive. There was cryptic information from Levy’s computer internet searches about the Pierce-Klingle Mansion in the middle of Washington’s Rock Creek Park.
In May, 2002, a man searching for turtles (can this get any weirder?) stumbled upon Levy’s skeletal remains.
Notably on Levy’s computer, there was also a search for Baskin-Robbins. After leaving Congress, Condit operated two Baskin-Robbins franchises near Phoenix.
Baskin-Robbins later sued Condit and his family for failing to pay franchise and advertising fees to the company.
Police eventually ruled Condit out as a suspect. He conceded in an interview he had a tryst with a woman who was nearly three decades his junior. But authorities cleared Condit, despite finding him elusive. Flight attendant Anne Marie Smith also came forward, saying she too had an affair with Condit.
The congressman then refused to submit to a police polygraph.
Is there any reason this story wouldn’t consume media, in Washington or elsewhere?
Condit tried to run for re-election. He lost his primary to a former staffer, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif. Condit’s son Chad ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2012.
Guandique turned to Levy’s parents when he appeared in court six years ago.
“I’m very sorry for what happened to your daughter,” he said. “But I had nothing to do with it. I am innocent.”
And still, no one knows who did it.
But one thing is clear: the recording Babs Proller made of Armando Morales is the lynchpin to clearing Guandique. That’s the only reason people in Washington are chattering about this case again.
In a final, warped twist, Babs Proller appeared briefly in an episode of “House of Cards.” In a non-speaking role, Proller appears sitting on the dais in the House chamber when President Frank Underwood addresses Congress for his State of the Union message. Proller’s position in the chamber is usually reserved for the clerk of the House during such elite meetings.
The entire Chandra Levy case revolves around quintessential Washington intrigue, even 15 years down the road. A congressman’s liaisons with an intern. Power. An unsolved murder. A media circus. All inside the Beltway touchstones worthy of the program, “House of Cards.”
It appears the government formed its case against Guandique on a house of cards. And perhaps it’s only appropriate that an actress who appeared on “House of Cards” helped immolate the prosecution and the conviction of Guandique.
Who killed Chandra Levy?
Well, it’s like something right out of “House of Cards.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/31/court-ruling-in-murder-intern-chandra-levy-reignites-speculation-on-sensational-washington-story.html