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George’s County, the county police said. The man was struck around 8:50 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue, about 100 yards west of Forestville Road, in the Forestville area, a ccording to Antonia Washington, a police spokeswoman. The man died at the scene, she said. He was not immediately identified. When police reached the area, she said, the vehicle that apparently struck him was not found. Pennsylvania is a main thoroughfare in the area, w ith a broad grass median between traffic lanes. The site is about a quarter-mile west of the Capital Beltway. — Martin Weil

the area. When officers arrived, they found a man, later identified as 44 -year-old Brian K. Woods of Silver Spring, outside the car and suffering from a gunshot wound. Police said Woods had been driving the car when it hit a parked vehicle. He was taken to a hospital, where he died, according to police. Investigators said Woods wasn’t shot at the scene of the collision. No arrests have been made. — Dana Hedgpeth

Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run, police say

A man was killed Friday night in a hit-and-run incident while trying to cross a road in Prince

suspect or suspects and are trying to determine a motive. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. — Dana Hedgpeth

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Man with gunshot wound dies after crash

A man died after being found with a gunshot wound Thursday in the Chillum area of Prince George’s County. The incident unfolded about 3 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of Fairview Avenue, a few blocks from New Hampshire Avenue. Police said they responded to a report of a vehicle collision in

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Man is fatally shot in Southeast apartment

A 37-year-old man was fatally shot Thursday afternoon inside an apartment in Southeast Washington, officials said. D.C. police said the shooting happened in the 1600 block of 18th Street SE in the Anacostia neighborhood. The victim was identified as Bryan William Ta te Jr. of Southeast Washington. Police responded about 1:16 p.m. when they were asked to check on a person’s welfare. When officers arrived, they found Ta te in a living room. He had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are looking for a

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BY LAUREN LUMPKIN

A suspect has been identified in connection with racist graffiti scrawled on a wall and a door in two academic buildings this week at Salisbury University, authorities said Friday. University President Charles A. Wight canceled classes Thurs- day following the discovery of graffiti that threatened black students with lynching. The incident at the public university on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was reported to campus police, who worked with the FBI to identify a suspect, according to a statement. Officials said they do not believe the individual is a member of the campus community. “The racist threats scrawled on walls and doors in our academic buildings have caused a great deal of fear among members of our community,” Wight said in a statement Friday. “We hope that this significant devel- opment in the investigation helps to reassure the SU community and will rebuild our collec- tive sense of security.” The incident has been re- ferred to the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office. No arrests have been made, said Carsten Wendlandt, a spokesman. Jason Rhodes, a university spokesman, declined to reveal the suspect’s whereabouts or

explain how the suspect was identified. “Because charges are pend- ing, SU cannot comment further on the case at this time,” he said in an email. In November, Salisbury Uni- versity police launched an investigation into messages drawn on the walls of two stairwells in Fulton Hall that warned, “Sandy Hook comes to SU kill [racial slur].” Images of the comments, which appeared to refer to the 2012 mass shooting at an ele- mentary school in Newtown, Conn., were posted on social media. Police have made no arrests in that incident. In response to the November episode, the university an- nounced diversity initiatives, including a national search for a chief diversity officer; a campus climate survey to allow students, faculty and staff to share information about their experiences at the school; and quarterly town hall meetings with admin- istrators. “It is only by embracing diversity that an educational institu- tion can fully realize its poten- tial for educational excellence,” Wight said Friday. “Working to- gether constructively, we must now take the next steps toward building and maintaining a col- laborative culture of inclusion that supports this excellence at SU.” [email protected]

maryland

Suspect in racist gra∞ti

at Salisbury is identified

BY RACHEL WEINER

The former treasurer f or dozens
of Washington-area conservative
political action committees that
cheated donors out of their cash
was sentenced Friday to a year in
prison.
Scott B. MacKenzie, 66, of Ar-
lington, contends that he did not
personally profit from the scheme
and d id not f ully understand w hat
the people he worked for were
doing when he lied to the Federal
Election Commission.
“I got into politics because I
wanted to make a difference, not
to get rich,” MacKenzie told U.S.

District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria. “I became too com- fortable w ith the FEC law and was not p aying enough reverence to it.” Kelley Rogers, who led many of the c ommittees, is s erving a t hree- year prison sentence. Chip O’Neil, who worked under Rogers, is s et t o be sentenced in May. The three men were involved with the political c onsulting firm Strategic Cam- paign Group, which took money from a network of PACs that in- cluded Conservative Strikeforce, Conservative Majority Fund and Te a Party Majority Fund. M acKen- zie served as treasurer of those and about four dozen other PACs,

he previously s aid in court. The committees, according to court documents, spent most of their money on overhead a nd l ittle on the candidates they claimed to be helping. Instead, funds went to their firms and associates, including $32, 500 to a woman in Win- chester, Va., who shared a bank account with MacKenzie and pre- tended to be doing data entry for his groups, the documents s tate. MacKenzie, who pleaded guilty in October to one count of making a false statement to the FEC, admitted lying to the FEC about the friend’s role but asserts he did the data entry work himself and was

properly p aid. He also has admitted to con- cealing funds that cycled through Rogers’s many groups. Those committees took in over $20 million from more than 9,000 conservative donors between 2011 and 2018, almost none of which was spent o n candidates. “Rogers needed the defendant’s special skills and expertise as a treasurer to paper o ver t he theft o f donor funds from the PACs,” prosecutors s aid in court f ilings. MacKenzie said he made $72,0 00 as a consultant for Rogers and d idn’t r eceive a ny k ickbacks. Defense attorney Andrea Mose-

ley noted in court that the case stems from a “growing desire” i n the Justice Department “to be- come more strict in areas where the F EC h as not been as strict.” But she said MacKenzie did not profit from the broader c onspiracy. MacKenzie, who worked on the political campaign of President Ronald R eagan, a s well as t hose of Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Pat- rick J. Buchanan, has agreed to pay $172,000 in restitution. Prosecutors emphasized that MacKenzie had paid r epeated civil penalties to the FEC for f iling inac- curate campaign reports. They said in court filings that MacKen-

zie lied not out of disorganization or embarrassment but to “conceal and disguise the fact that he was stealing PAC funds for his own personal purposes.” Such fines are “the name of the game” i n campaign work, M oseley told the court. Former senator Bob Smith (R-N.H.) wrote in support of MacKenzie, saying that when he chaired the Senate Ethics Com- mittee in t he late 1990s, “ members were frequently c ited for mistakes on these reports” and there were “constant c lashes between FEC di- rectors a nd l awyers as to the facts.” [email protected]

tHe region

Ex-treasurer of PACs that cheated donors is sentenced to year in prison for lying to FEC

BY DANA HEDGPETH

A bald eagle was taken to a
wildlife refuge center after being
found last week in Leesburg, Va.,
and experts said it is one of three
bald eagles found to have high
levels of lead in their systems.
Officer Ethan Martin had end-
ed his shift on Feb. 14 when he
saw that several cars had pulled
off Sycolin Road, according to
the Loudoun County Sheriff’s
Office. He noticed one person
appeared to “consoling some-
thing under his coat,” authorities
said.
Martin realized the man was
trying to help an eagle. Martin
got in touch w ith Loudoun Coun-
ty Animal Services, which helped
get the eagle to Blue Ridge
Wildlife Center in Boyce, Va.,
about 70 miles west of Washing-
ton.
The center said in a social
media post that the female eagle
is being treated and “luckily,
after just a few days in care,” i ts
“lead level h as come d own signif-
icantly.” Officials said the bird is
eating on its own.
Experts at the wildlife center
also gave updates on two other
bald eagles that were recently
rescued. They b oth were found in
Stafford County, and their lead

levels also have come down, officials said. One of the bald eagles has a kidney injury that happened

“due to the toxicity” of lead. Another bald eagle, an adult, is healing from a fractured wing bone.

On Wednesday, officials said they took in another injured bald eagle from the Quantico area that possibly had flown into a power line. That eagle had burn marks on its body and a “small amount of lead” in its system, according to Hillary Davidson, executive director of the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center. The wildlife center annually takes in about 2,200 injured animals, including squirrels, birds, foxes, weasels and beavers. Wildlife experts said it has been a “particularly bad season for lead” especially for vultures, eagles and opossums. Often, eagles and other animals eat frag- ments of lead ammunition l eft in “shot game or nuisance wildlife” and absorb it into their systems, according to the wildlife center. Experts at the center urged hunters to avoid using lead ammunition. Davidson said the eagles often seem dizzy or appear to be drunk when brought in with high levels of lead. She said those eagles are treated with drugs, have their systems flushed and are checked for side effects. The eagle with kidney prob- lems might not regain full func- tion or be released into the wild. Veterinarians are working to continue lowering lead levels in the others. She said it is unusual for three eagles to come from the Quanti- co area but said it shows there’s a strong eagle population in that area. [email protected]

Virginia

Lead-poisoned eagle is recovering at sanctuary

Blue ridge Wildlife Center A bald eagle found in Leesburg receives care at B lue Ridge Wildlife Center in Boyce after being admitted with severe lead poisoning.

Bird rescued last week in Loudoun is one of three being treated for t oxin

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