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NATION
By Mike Robinson
The Associated Press
CHICAGO -- A federal deputy mar-
shal was sentenced Tuesday to four
years in prison for leaking informa-
tion about the government's star
witness at Chicago's biggest orga-
nized crime trial in decades.
John T. Ambrose, 42, was
convicted in April of stealing gov-
ernment property and violating the
secrecy of the Witness Security Pro-
gram -- the network of bodyguards
and safehouses used to protect
witnesses in mob and terrorism
cases.
U.S. District Judge John F. Grady
said that the sentencing range under
federal guidelines of 12 to 18 months
was too low and he wanted to send
Ambrose to prison long enough to
deter such leaks in the future.
It was the first breach of security
in the 25-year history of the Witness
Security Program.
"This is an isolated case based
on an isolated event," U.S. Marshal
Kim Widup told reporters after the
sentencing.
The information was that admit-
ted hit man Nicholas Calabrese was
in federal custody and being kept in
a safe house in Chicago. Calabrese
went on to become the government's
star witness in the FBI's landmark
Operation Family Secrets case
-- Chicago's biggest mob trial in
decades.
Three big-name reputed mob
bosses were sent to federal prison
for life and two of their alleged
henchmen got long sentences for a
murder conspiracy.
Both sides say Ambrose leaked
the information to a former Chicago
police officer who had gone to prison
in a corruption case decades ago.
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzger-
ald and Robert D. Grant, special
agent in charge of the Chicago office
of the FBI, both testified that when
they confronted Ambrose he said he
gave the information to a friend to
pass on to the mob in hope he would
be repaid with useful information in
hunting a fugitive.
Ambrose denies that he ever said
he did that. Instead, he claims that
he was merely boasting to former
Chicago police officer William Guide
that he had been given the high-
prestige assignment of guarding the
only so-called made member of the
Chicago mob ever to change sides.
M. SPENCER GREEN/AP
Deputy U.S. Marshal John Ambrose leaves federal court in Chicago on Tuesday.
Deputy marshal gets 4 years for mob leak
CHICAGO
Cops: Psych patient
stabs doc, is shot dead
BOSTON -- A man stabbed a
doctor while being treated at
a psychiatric ward at a Boston
medical building Tuesday and
was fatally shot by an off-duty
security guard who saw the
attack, police said.
The attack took place in the
afternoon at 50 Staniford St., a
high-rise affiliated with Massa-
chusetts General Hospital.
The female doctor, whose
name was not released, was in
stable condition. Police say the
assailant died of the gunshot
wounds. The security guard
was off duty and just happened
to be at the scene, according to
Bonnie Michelman, the hospi-
tal's security director.
Police temporarily locked
down the building, telling
employees and patients that
they could not immediately
leave. Nearby streets were shut
down for about an hour.
Police Commissioner Ed
Davis later said no one else
was injured, and there was no
further danger.
David Schoenfeld, a biostatis-
ticianwhoworksinanothersuite
on the floor where the attack
took place, said he heard a com-
motion and found the assailant
lying on the floor. � AP
ROUNDUP
MIDWEST
Runaway convert back in
Ohio after 3-month flight
COLUMBUS, OHIO -- A teenage girl who
said she feared her father would
harm or kill her for converting from
Islam to Christianity returned to
Ohio on Tuesday after running away
to Florida three months ago.
Rifqa Bary returned to circum-
stances far different than those she
left: Instead of her home in New
Albany, one of central Ohio's most
well-off communities, she'll be in a
foster home under state custody.
Bary, 17, will also have her phone
and Internet use supervised by the
Franklin County Children Service
Agency, under a judge's order issued
earlier Tuesday. � AP
NORTHEAST
Ex-frat members plead
guilty in N.Y. hazing death
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Two former mem-
bers of a banned college fraternity
at a western New York campus
admitted Tuesday they plied a stu-
dent with so much beer, champagne
and vodka during a three-day hazing
that the young man died of alcohol
poisoning.
Arman Partamian, 19, a biology
sophomore, was found dead March
1 after drinking excessively to gain
membership in the off-campus fra-
ternity at State University of New
York in Geneseo.
Fellow student Alex Stucki, 21, who
waslaterexpelled,andDevinMcClain,
22, pleaded guilty to criminally negli-
gent homicide, a felony. � AP
THE SOUTH
Funeral held for slain
Fla. girl found in landfill
ORANGE PARK, FLA. -- Mourners said
farewell Tuesday to a 7-year-old
Florida girl whose body was found
in a Georgia landfill after she van-
ished on her way home from school,
and they honored her favorite color
by releasing hundreds of purple bal-
loons into the sky.
Purple flowers adorned Somer
Thompson's wooden casket and
filled the floral displays around First
Baptist Church of Orange Park. Her
family wore purple ribbons on their
clothing. � AP
MIDWEST
Ohio day care deaths are
ruled a homicide-suicide
FAIRFIELD, OHIO -- A coroner says
the shooting deaths of an estranged
couple found inside a sport utility
vehicle at an Ohio day care center
was a homicide-suicide.
Fairfield police Lt. Kevin Haddix
says police believe 47-year-old Fran-
cisco Restituyo confronted Evelyn
Restituyo outside the outlet store
where she worked on Monday and
shot her in the thigh. Haddix says
the man then drove her about six
miles to the Jelly Bean Junction day
care center, where he killed her and
himself. � AP
By Brian Skoloff
The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. -- Trevor
Keezer calls himself an American
patriot, a man who loves his country,
God and religion. He never imagined
his beliefs would get him fired.
But that's exactly what the 20-
year-old says happened when he
reported for work at the Home
Depot in the rural Florida town of
Okeechobee, about 140 miles north
of Miami.
Keezer said he'd been wearing an
American flag button on his Home
Depot apron since he began working
as a cashier at the store in March
2008. The button read, "One nation
under God, indivisible."
"I've worn it for well over a year
and I support my country and God,"
Keezer said Tuesday. "I was just
doing what I think every American
should do, just love my country."
But earlier this month, Keezer
began bringing a Bible to work to
read on his lunch break.
That's when he says Home Depot
management told him he would have
to remove the button.
Keezer refused, and he was fired
on Oct. 23, he said.
"It feels kind of like a punishment,
like I was punished for just loving
my country," Keezer said.
A Home Depot spokesman said
Keezer's termination was for a
violation of the company's dress
code.
"The issue is not whether or
not we agree with the message on
the button," said spokesman Craig
Fishel.
"That's not our place to say, which
is exactly why we have a blanket
policy, which is long-standing and
well-communicated to our associ-
ates, that only company-provided
pins and badges can be worn on
our aprons."
Fishel said Keezer was offered
a company-approved pin that
said, "United We Stand," but he
declined.
"This associate chose to wear a
button that expressed his religious
beliefs," he said.
Keezer is now out of work and
has retained attorneys who say they
plan to sue.
He said he was working at the
Home Depot to earn money for
college, and wore the button to
support his country and his 27-year-
old brother, who is in the National
Guard and is set to report in Decem-
ber for a second tour of duty in
Iraq.
Man: Home Depot fired him over God button
AP
Trevor Keezer is shown in front of the
Home Depot in Okeechobee, Fla.
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