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    Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife

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    Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder’s Wife

    OCTOBER 23, 2014

    Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) a “Vaughnindex” detailing records about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. The index was forced out of the Obama administration thanks to JW’s June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequentSeptember 2012 FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:12-cv-01510)). A federal court had ordered the production over the objections of the Obama Justice Department.

    The document details the Attorney General Holder’s personal involvement in managing the Justice Department’s strategy on media and Congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious scandal. Notably, the document discloses that emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – as well as his mother – are being withheld under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act. The “First Lady of the Justice Department” is a physician and not a government employee.

    This is the first time that the Obama administration has provided a detailed listing of all records being withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Fast and Furious gun running scandal. The 1307-page “draft” Vaughn index was emailed to Judicial Watch at 8:34 p.m. last night, a few hours before a federal court-ordered deadline. In its cover letter, the Department of Justice asserts that all of the responsive records described in the index are “subject to the assertion of executive privilege.”

    The Vaughn index explains 15,662 documents. Typically, a Vaughn index must: (1) identify each record withheld; (2) state the statutory exemption claimed; and (3) explain how disclosure would damage the interests protected by the claimed exemption. The Vaughn index arguably fails to provide all of this required information but does provide plenty of interesting information for a public kept in the dark for years about the Fast and Furious scandal.

    Based on a preliminary review of the massive document, Judicial Watch can disclose that the Vaughn index reveals:


    • Numerous emails that detail Attorney General Holder’s direct involvement in crafting talking points, the timing of public disclosures, and handling Congressional inquiries in the Fast and Furious matter.


    • President Obama has asserted executive privilege over nearly 20 email communications between Holder and his spouse Sharon Malone. The administration also claims that the records are also subject to withholding under the “deliberative process” exemption. This exemption ordinarily exempts from public disclosure records that could chill internal government deliberations.


    • Numerous entries detail DOJ’s communications (including those of Eric Holder) concerning the White House about Fast and Furious.


    • The scandal required the attention of virtually every top official of the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Communications to and from the United States Ambassador to Mexico about the Fast and Furious matter are also described.


    • Many of the records are already publicly available such as letters from Congress, press clips, and typical agency communications. Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.


    Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton criticized President Obama and his disgraced Attorney General in a statement today:
    This document provides key information about the cover-up of Fast and Furious by Attorney General Eric Holder and other high-level officials of the Obama administration. Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office. There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.

    Once again, Judicial Watch has proven itself more effective than Congress and the establishment media in providing basic oversight of this out-of-control Administration. This Fast and Furious document provides dozens of leads for further congressional, media, and even criminal investigations.

    On June 28, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt by the House of Representatives over his refusal to turn over records explaining why the Obama administration may have lied to Congress and refused for months to disclose the truth about the gun running operation. It marked the first time in U.S. history that a sitting Attorney General was held in contempt of Congress.

    A week before the contempt finding, to protect Holder from criminal prosecution and stave off the contempt vote, President Obama asserted executive privilege over the Fast and Furious records the House Oversight Committee had subpoenaed eight months earlier. Judicial Watch filed its FOIA request two days later. Holder’s Justice Department wouldn’t budge (or follow the law), so JW filed a FOIA lawsuit on September 12, 2012.

    But then the Justice Department convinced U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates to stay our lawsuit, in part to allow ongoing settlement discussions between the Holder’s government lawyers and the House Committee to continue. Unsurprisingly, the “negotiations” between politicians running the House and the Justice Department went nowhere.
    Fed up with the interminable delay caused Holder’s gamesmanship and stonewalling, JW renewed its request to the Court to allow our transparency lawsuit to continue. Thankfully, this past July, Judge John D. Bates ended the 16-month delay and ordered the Obama administration to produce a Vaughn index of the alleged “executive privilege” records by October 1. Judge Bates noted that no court has ever “expressly recognized” President Obama’s unprecedented executive privilege claims in the Fast and Furious matter.

    Unhappy with having to produce the records prior to the elections, Justice lawyers asked the judge to give them one extra month, until November 3 (the day before Election Day!) to produce the info. Judge Bates rejected this gambit, suggested that the Holder’s agency did not take court order seriously. Rather than a month, Judge Bates gave Justice until yesterday to cough up the Vaughn index. Judge Bates issued his smack down on September 23.

    Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation two days later.

    Many share our opinion it was “no coincidence” that Holder’s resignation came “on the heels of another court ruling that the Justice Department must finally cough up information about how Holder’s Justice Department lied to Congress and the American people about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, for which Eric Holder was held in contempt by the House of Representatives.”

    The House had been separately litigating to obtain the records but had gotten nowhere until after Judge Bates ruled that the DOJ finally had to disclose information to Judicial Watch.

    On September 9, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, citing Judicial Watch’s success, ordered the Justice Department to produce information to Congress by November 3.

    Fast and Furious was a DOJ/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun running” operation in which the Obama administration reportedly allowed guns to go to Mexican drug cartels hoping they would end up at crime scenes, advancing gun-control policies. Fast and Furious weapons have been implicated in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of other innocents in Mexico. Guns from the Fast and Furious scandal are expected to be used in criminal activity on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border for years to come.

    Guns from the Fast and Furious scandal continue to be used in crimes. Just last week, Judicial Watch disclosed that a Fast and Furious gun was used in gang -style assault on a Phoenix apartment building that left two people wounded. We figured this out from information we uncovered through another public records lawsuit against the City of Phoenix.

    Congress officially confirmed the AK-47 was used in the assault that terrorized residents in Phoenix. In an October 16 letter sent from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA) to Deputy Attorney General James Cole discloses that “we have learned of another crime gun connected to Fast and Furious. The [Justice] Department did not provide any notice to the Congress or the public about this gun….This lack of transparency about the consequences of Fast and Furious undermines public confidence in law enforcement and gives the impression that the Department is seeking to suppress information and limit its exposure to public scrutiny.”

    We have many other active lawsuits over the Fast and Furious scandal:

    On October 11, 2011, Judicial Watch sued the DOJ and the ATF to obtain all Fast and Furious records submitted to the House Committee on Oversight.

    On June 6, 2012, Judicial Watch sued the ATF seeking access to records detailing communications between ATF officials and Kevin O’Reilly, former Obama White House Director of North American Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council.

    On September 5, 2013, Judicial Watch sued the DOJ seeking access to all records of communications between DOJ and the Oversight Committee relating to settlement discussions in the Committee’s 2012 contempt of Congress lawsuit against Holder. The contempt citation stemmed from Holder’s refusal to turn over documents to Congress related to the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal.

    On May 28, 2014, Judicial Watch sued the DOJ on behalf of ATF Special Agent John Dodson, who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious and was then subjected to an alleged smear campaign designed to destroy his reputation.

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    Obama Asserts Executive Privilege for Eric Holder's Wife, Mother in Fast & Furious

    by AWR Hawkins 23 Oct 2014, 1:32 PM PDT
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    On October 23, Judicial Watch announced it received a "Vaughn index" for records the Department of Justice has withheld from Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious. Contained in the index details are evidence that Obama asserted executive privilege for Attorney General Eric Holder's wife Sharon Malone—and his mother.

    According to Judicial Watch, emails between Holder and his wife and Holder and his mother are the materials withheld via executive privilege and "the dubious claim of deliberative process privilege."

    Yet the release of the Vaughn index is a good thing, and it comes after Judge John D. Bates ordered the index in response to Judicial Watch's September 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

    Breitbart News previously reported that Bates issued his ruling on July 31.

    Judicial Watch's "preliminary take" on the Vaughn index is that it reveals "numerous emails that detail Attorney General Holder's direct involvement in crafting talking points, the timing of public disclosures, and handling Congressional inquiries in the Fast and Furious matter."

    The documents also show that "the scandal required the attention of virtually every top official of the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). They also show continuing executive privilege claims for "nearly 20 email communications between Holder and [his wife]."

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    Obama Asks Judge To Hide Emails To Attorney General Holder’s Wife
    President Barack Obama is asking a judge to keep secret the contents of emails apparently sent between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife. The request...
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    Obama Asks Judge To Hide Emails To Attorney General Holder’s Wife

    3:18 PM 10/23/2014
    Neil Munro
    White House Correspondent

    President Barack Obama is asking a judge to keep secret the contents of emails apparently sent between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife.

    The request is part of Obama’s three-year stonewall against Judicial Watch’s inquiry into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, during which the Department of Justice watched while military-style weapons were bought in the United States and smuggled to Mexican drug gangs. The scandal went public once one of Obama’s employees — a U.S. border guard — was killed by a criminal using one of the smuggled guns.
    Late Oct. 22, moments before a judicial deadline, the White House sent the judge a 1,307-page list of 15,662 Fast and Furious documents that it wants to keep hidden from Judicial Watch and the public.
    The list includes almost 20 emails between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone.
    Malone is not a government official, and so communications with her are not shielded by the “executive privilege” rules that keep internal White House documents secret.
    “Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious,” said a Thursday statement from Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.

    “Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office,” he said. “There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records.”
    In the past, members of the Obama administration have used fake email accounts to hide conversations from public view.

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    Barry cannot claim Executive Privilege on State, Federal and International crime of Gun Running

    Nor can he claim Executive Privilege for Eric Holder's Wife, a civilian that plays no part in the government

    these actions were Grossly Negligent and Resulted in crimes against humanity

    If Barry is Involved he needs to be right beside holder; standing on the Red Carpet hand cuffed and prosecuted under the RICO Act
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    Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder's Wife...
    Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) a “Vaughnindex” detailing records about the Operation Fast and...
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    Obama Asserts Fast and Furious Executive Privilege Claim for Holder's Wife...

    October 23, 2014/ RedFlag



    Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) a “Vaughnindex” detailing records about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. The index was forced out of the Obama administration thanks to JW’s June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequent September 2012 FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:12-cv-01510)). A federal court had ordered the production over the objections of the Obama Justice Department.
    The document details the Attorney General Holder’s personal involvement in managing the Justice Department’s strategy on media and Congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious scandal. Notably, the document discloses that emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – as well as his mother – are being withheld under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act. The “First Lady of the Justice Department” is a physician and not a government employee.
    This is the first time that the Obama administration has provided a detailed listing of all records being withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Fast and Furious gun running scandal. The 1307-page “draft” Vaughn index was emailed to Judicial Watch at 8:34 p.m. last night, a few hours before a federal court-ordered deadline. In its cover letter, the Department of Justice asserts that all of the responsive records described in the index are “subject to the assertion of executive privilege.”
    The Vaughn index explains 15,662 documents. Typically, a Vaughn index must: (1) identify each record withheld; (2) state the statutory exemption claimed; and (3) explain how disclosure would damage the interests protected by the claimed exemption. The Vaughn index arguably fails to provide all of this required information but does provide plenty of interesting information for a public kept in the dark for years about the Fast and Furious scandal.
    Based on a preliminary review of the massive document, Judicial Watch can disclose that the Vaughn index reveals:

    • Numerous emails that detail Attorney General Holder’s direct involvement in crafting talking points, the timing of public disclosures, and handling Congressional inquiries in the Fast and Furious matter.


    • President Obama has asserted executive privilege over nearly 20 email communications between Holder and his spouse Sharon Malone. The administration also claims that the records are also subject to withholding under the “deliberative process” exemption. This exemption ordinarily exempts from public disclosure records that could chill internal government deliberations.


    • Numerous entries detail DOJ’s communications (including those of Eric Holder) concerning the White House about Fast and Furious.


    • The scandal required the attention of virtually every top official of the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Communications to and from the United States Ambassador to Mexico about the Fast and Furious matter are also described.


    • Many of the records are already publicly available such as letters from Congress, press clips, and typical agency communications. Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.

    Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton criticized President Obama and his disgraced Attorney General in a statement today:
    This document provides key information about the cover-up of Fast and Furious by Attorney General Eric Holder and other high-level officials of the Obama administration. Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office. There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.
    Once again, Judicial Watch has proven itself more effective than Congress and the establishment media in providing basic oversight of this out-of-control Administration. This Fast and Furious document provides dozens of leads for further congressional, media, and even criminal investigations.
    On June 28, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt by the House of Representatives over his refusal to turn over records explaining why the Obama administration may have lied to Congress and refused for months to disclose the truth about the gun running operation. It marked the first time in U.S. history that a sitting Attorney General was held in contempt of Congress.
    A week before the contempt finding, to protect Holder from criminal prosecution and stave off the contempt vote, President Obama asserted executive privilege over the Fast and Furious records the House Oversight Committee had subpoenaed eight months earlier. Judicial Watch filed its FOIA request two days later. Holder’s Justice Department wouldn’t budge (or follow the law), so JW filed a FOIA lawsuit on September 12, 2012.
    But then the Justice Department convinced U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates to stay our lawsuit, in part to allow ongoing settlement discussions between the Holder’s government lawyers and the House Committee to continue. Unsurprisingly, the “negotiations” between politicians running the House and the Justice Department went nowhere.
    Fed up with the interminable delay caused Holder’s gamesmanship and stonewalling, JW renewed its request to the Court to allow our transparency lawsuit to continue. Thankfully, this past July, Judge John D. Bates ended the 16-month delay and ordered the Obama administration to produce a Vaughn index of the alleged “executive privilege” records by October 1. Judge Bates noted that no court has ever “expressly recognized” President Obama’s unprecedented executive privilege claims in the Fast and Furious matter.
    Unhappy with having to produce the records prior to the elections, Justice lawyers asked the judge to give them one extra month, until November 3 (the day before Election Day!) to produce the info. Judge Bates rejected this gambit, suggested that the Holder’s agency did not take court order seriously. Rather than a month, Judge Bates gave Justice until yesterday to cough up the Vaughn index. Judge Bates issued his smack down on September 23.
    Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation two days later.

    Keep reading...


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    Obama claims executive privilege over 15,000 Fast and Furious docs

    By CJ Ciaramella
    Published October 23, 2014Washington Free Beacon



    Federal agents lost control of some 2,000 weapons during a botched operation known as Fast and Furious. (AP)

    The Obama administration is claiming executive privilege over more than 15,000 documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, including correspondence between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife, according to records received Wednesday night by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.
    Last month, a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to release to Judicial Watch the list of documents, known as a “Vaughn index,” that it is withholding from the public, calling its requests for further delays “unconvincing.”

    The 1,307-page Vaughn index lists 15,662 documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that the Obama administration is asserting executive privilege over—the first time that full list and description of the records has been released.
    According to Judicial Watch, the withheld documents include communications between top officials at the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), as well as with the United States Ambassador to Mexico.
    The Obama administration is also asserting executive privilege over nearly 20 emails between Holder and his wife Sharon Malone.

    Click for more from the Washington Free Beacon.


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    Federal agents lost control of some 2,000 weapons during a botched operation known as Fast and Furious.

    to put this in perspective; that's enough Assault Rifles / Sniper Rifles to completely ARM a Combat Heavy Infantry Brigade in the U.S. Army with weapons left over
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    Lies and More Secrets: Obama Uses Executive Privilege to Block 15,000 Documents Related to Fast and Furious

    October 23, 2014 By TPNN



    In yet another attempt to cloak the Attorney General within the dubious claim of executive privilege, President Obama has sought to conceal the contents of over 15,000 documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious scandal that left American Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry dead at the hands of firearms funneled to Mexican drug cartels while the Justice Department did nothing.

    In July, a federal judge ruled that the Justice Department must comply with a Judicial Watch request and turn over the “Vaughn Index,” a collection of over 15,000 documents that concern the Fast and Furious operation that many allege served as a false flag operation to spur violence on the border in an effort to justify a Justice Department crackdown on gun sellers and purchasers.

    Last month, a federal judge took issue with the Justice Department’s delays in releasing the documents and ordered them released by October 22nd.

    Though the federal judge ordered the release of the Vaughn Index, the Obama Administration has claimed executive privilege over the documents. At the height of legislative inquiry over Attorney General Eric Holder’s role in the scandal, Obama protected the Attorney General and sealed-off the investigation by asserting executive privilege that extends to his top law enforcer- a claim that is of questionable legality but that has been, nonetheless, less-than vigorously challenged.

    Holder remains the only Attorney General to have ever been held in contempt of Congress in our nation’s history.

    The Washington Free Beacon’s CJ Ciaramella reported on the recent Obama Administration obstruction:
    The Obama administration is claiming executive privilege over more than 15,000 documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, including correspondence between Attorney General Eric Holder and his wife, according to records received Wednesday night by the watchdog group Judicial Watch…

    The 1,307-page Vaughn index lists 15,662 documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that the Obama administration is asserting executive privilege over—the first time that full list and description of the records has been released.

    According to Judicial Watch, the withheld documents include communications between top officials at the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), as well as with the United States Ambassador to Mexico.

    The Obama administration is also asserting executive privilege over nearly 20 emails between Holder and his wife Sharon Malone.

    “Obama’s executive privilege claims over these records are a fraud and an abuse of his office,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement. “There is no precedent for President Obama’s Nixonian assertion of executive privilege over these ordinary government agency records. Americans will be astonished that Obama asserted executive privilege over Eric Holder’s emails to his wife about Fast and Furious.”

    Judicial Watch also says the Justice Department is asserting privilege over publicly available press clips, letters from Congress, and inter-agency communications that would normally be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

    “Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim,” Judicial Watch said in a press release.
    The President’s claim to executive privilege is not the blank check he likely hopes it is. However, it is yet unclear if or when these legal hurdles will be cleared. In the meantime, the citizens of the United States are saddled with an executive branch that makes the Politburo of the Soviet era look like an open book by comparison.

    Please share on Facebook and Twitter if you feel that Obama and Eric Holder should be held accountable for their roles in Fast and Furious.

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    Sharon Malone, Wife of AG, Keynotes Women’s History Month Event
    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

    Dr. Sharon Malone, wife of Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks in the Great Hall of the Justice Department on Tuesday (photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice).

    Dr. Sharon Malone, the wife of Attorney General Eric Holder, recounted Tuesday how the Department of Justice intervened to allow her older sister to go to school at the University of Alabama in the 1960s. Malone spoke at an event in celebration of Women’s History Month.

    Speaking in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, Malone’s remarks centered on her sister, Vivian Malone Jones, who was one of the first African Americans to enroll at the all-white University of Alabama. Malone recalled how in June 1963, then-Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach escorted Jones past then-Gov. George Wallace, a segregationist, in an incident now known as “the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door.” Jones eventually earned a degree at the school and later worked at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. She died in 2005.

    “My husband isn’t the first Attorney General who took an interest in my family,” joked Malone, who is an obstetrician/gynecologist in private practice.

    Holder told a local Girl Scout troop in attendance for the event to look around the room, pointing out women in leadership positions within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Drug Enforcement Administration. “This is your future, you can do anything,” said Holder.

    In introducing his wife, Holder joked that she would probably agree that he is in touch with his feminine side. He also recounted the night he met Malone, who at the time was completing her medical residency. Up until that point Malone wasn’t sure if she’d stay in D.C., Holder said.

    “But she met a tall, handsome young man and decided to stay in D.C.” he said. “I also met her that night,” he added, jokingly. The couple will celebrate their 20th anniversary on April 7, said Holder.

    Also speaking at the event were Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Laurie Robinson and Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Ignacia Moreno. Moreno reflected on the diversity of the federal government under President Barack Obama.

    “The leadership of our nation has never looked more like America, and we are not going back,” said Moreno.

    After the ceremony, Malone, Holder, Robinson and Moreno posed for pictures with the Girl Scout troop.

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