Archive - June 11, 2022

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Feds warn Navarro to stop making “Numerous False Statements” about his arrest
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Nominate Your Favorite RPCV Book Published in 2021

Feds warn Navarro to stop making “Numerous False Statements” about his arrest

From Daily Beast Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Marnie Mueller  (Ecuador 1963-65) Trump loyalist Peter Navarro has made “numerous false statements” about his arrest, federal prosecutors wrote in a new court filing Thursday urging a judge to reject Navarro’s request for more time until his next court hearing. Navarro was arrested last week for refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot. He was not denied food, water or a call to a lawyer, prosecutors said in the new filing shared by Politico. In fact, “At the time of his arrest, the Defendant first requested to call the press, which was denied,” it says. The feds say Navarro’s arresting officers — who Navarro called “kind Nazis”— told him he could call an attorney, but he instead said he needed to go on live TV that night and had to call to say he wouldn’t be there. Navarro . . .

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Nominate Your Favorite RPCV Book Published in 2021

To further fulfill its goals to encourage, recognize and promote Peace Corps writers, RPCV Writers & Readers, the newsletter that was the precursor of PeaceCorpsWriters.org and PeaceCorpsWorldwide.org, presented its first annual awards for outstanding writing in 1990. The awards are: The Award for Writer of the Year The Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award The Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award The Maria Thomas Fiction Award The Award for Best Peace Corps Memoir The Award for Best Book of Poetry The Peace Corps Writers Publisher’s Award The Peace Corps Writers Publisher’s Special Staff Award The Award for Best Short Story Collection The Award for Best Travel Book The Rowland Scherman Award for Best Photography Book The Award for Best Children’s Book about a Peace Corps Country The Award for Best Book for Young Adults The Marian Haley Beil Award for the Best Book Review The Award for Advancing the Mission Other Awards . . .

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