Tune in this week for Open Season tips from Walton Francis, insurance expert and author of the Consumers’ CHECKBOOK Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees.

In 1906, the District of Columbia played host to “Handcuff King,” Harry Houdini. The great magician and his wife were visiting Washington, DC for Houdini’s performances at the Chase Theater when Metropolitan Police Chief Major Richard Sylvester invited the escape artist to test the Metropolitan Police’s metal.

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A guilty plea got ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle 15 years and eight months in federal prison, according to the Associated Press. Fogle’s attorneys argued his sexual addiction was brought on by his famous weight loss.

An anti-subrogation regulation in Kansas preventing insurers from issuing policies containing subrogation clauses came into conflict with the Federal Employees Health Benefit Act (“FEHBA”), but the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal common law preempted the Kansas regulation.

Two Israelis and an American have been charged for multiple crimes in a case involving massive network intrusions at U.S. financial institutions, U.S. brokerage firms, major news publications, and other companies.

Although Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agents are civilians, they work for the military and further military goals.  Thus, they are prohibited from enforcing purely civilian laws under the Posse Comitatus Act, according to an en banc panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and should not have investigated a civilian for downloading child pornography.

Seat by seat, the rows filled in the Burke Theater of the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum on Wednesday, October 7. Many came from across the East Coast to listen to three officials talk about the investigation and manhunt following one of the most recent terrorist attacks in our nation’s homeland.

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This week, a former sergeant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD), who was previously found guilty of federal civil rights offenses, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison.

A “cadre of armed state and federal agents” and a helicopter “orbiting above” was insufficient to establish involuntary coercion of a defendant’s consent to his home, according to the Fifth Circuit.

Last week, the leader of an international drug trafficking and money laundering ring operating in the Americas, Caribbean, and Europe was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison.

Mr. Amir Meshal a United States citizen and resident of New Jersey, traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia in 2006 to further his study of Islam.  In early 2007, Somalia experienced an outbreak of violence causing many civilians to flee the country for neighboring Kenya.

Last week, FEDS had the honor of attending the Federal Law Enforcement Officers’ Association (FLEOA) 2015 biennial conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where new Executive Board Members were elected, and Immediate Past President, Jon Adler, was thanked and honored for his great leadership, dedication and professionalism in representing, protecting and advocating on behalf of more than 25,000 federal law enforcement officers and their families.

Who better to provide insight into big issues facing the workforce other than those covering it? Tune in this week to FEDtalk for a roundtable discussion with reporters covering the federal beat.

Last week Malaysian authorities detained Ardit Ferizi, a citizen of Kosovo, on a provisional arrest warrant alleging he provided material support to the Islamic State and was involved in the hacking and release of personally identifiable information (PII) of U.S. service members and federal employees.

Suppression of evidence in a state court does not, by itself, raise a factual issue about whether law enforcement officers violated the defendant’s clearly established rights, the Fifth Circuit recently held.

At precisely 12:01 p.m., a huge explosion rocked the New York Financial District. It shattered windows for blocks around, throwing shards of glass in all directions along with heavy lead slugs believed to have been used as shrapnel in the bomb. The blast killed 38 people and injured hundreds more.

In its ninth year, Operation Cross Country, the nationwide law enforcement operation in which the FBI, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) team up to recover sexually exploited children and go after pimps and other individuals.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has selected Officer Jessica Hawkins of the Greenville (SC) Police Department as the recipient of its Officer of the Month Award for September 2015.