Vernon Reffitt got $30,000 to leave the Army in 1992. It was a one-time special separation benefit offered to service members when the U.S. had to reduce its active-duty force. More than 30 years later, the federal government wants that money back.
Five people were charged Wednesday with the attempted bribery of a juror in Minnesota after authorities found on confiscated devices a “chilling” plan to give a juror more than $120,000 and specific instructions on how to convince other jurors to vote to acquit, federal prosecutors said.
Defendant Said Shafii Farah walks into the U.S. District Court with his attorneys during the first day of jury selection in the first Feeding Our Future case to go to trial in Minneapolis.
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