Accused Labor Dept. lawyer’s throat was cut

Washington Post ^ | June 18, 2013 | By Keith L. Alexander and Peter Hermann,

[Brad from Tennessee]

A Labor Department lawyer, charged with sexually assaulting his co-worker in her Northwest Washington home, was found dead Tuesday in his D.C. jail cell, officials said.

Paul Mannina, 58, was found with his throat cut, two police officials familiar with the investigation said. He shared the cell with another inmate, but it remained unknown whether the wound was self-inflicted. Authorities did not explain why Mannina was sharing a cell or whether he was in protective custody at the time of his death.

[schm0e]

nothing weird about this.

[SeaHawkFan]

The upside of this is that the charges will be dismissed and his wife can keep his pension. Might also be able to sue the jail for negligence.

[null and void]

He shared the cell with another inmate, named Achmed Abullah Mohammad, but it remained unknown whether the wound was self-inflicted.

[pax_et_bonum]

Lol! When I read your tagline I thought of a bunch of FReepers in a cozy shelter for poultry.

:-)

[knarf]

Someonne actually wrote;

" but it remained unknown whether the wound was self-inflicted. "

regarding a throat slashing ?

[Resolute Conservative]

Was he a Clinton appointee?

[Jyotishi]

“...throat was cut”

I know that Muslims have infiltrated the White House and most government agencies, but they’re in the prisons too?

[schm0e]

Nah, a coup(e)!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

One down...

[liberalh8ter]

But that dovetails quite nicely with, "Authorities did not explain why Mannina was sharing a cell or whether he was in protective custody at the time of his death.

Oh my..........Really? I'm beginning to think either the journalists or editors are doing this just to see if anyone is actually reading the whole piece.

[TEXOKIE]

Pinging nachum - does this qualify for The List?

[ssaftler]

I thought he needed mental help. He's never been in any trouble before and he's not a danger to the community.

Well, he is definitely not a danger to the community now!

[pax_et_bonum]

When one of our friends got married, another friend built a chicken “coupe” on a trailer and painted it pink.

Then the guys locked it onto his truck’s trailer hitch.

He and his bride drove away from the church with a chicken coop in tow - full of chickens, feathers flying out of the windows, and the rooster crowing!

[Responsibility2nd]

Sounds like the co-worker definitely had “connections”.

[WayneS]

Slashing one's own throat seems to me like it would be almost as difficult as shootings oneself in the back of one's head with a 12 gauge shotgun.

[PGR88]

OK I give up - what was his connection to the Clintons?

[presently no screen name]

Mannina sobbed openly in court, with his face on the table in front of him,

This guy was able to do some weird stuff according to the writer.

[presently no screen name]

He took off of work ‘because he can’?

[1_Rain_Drop]

Was his throat slashed before or after his face was on the table in front of him? Didn’t anyone in the courtroom notice?

I thought sharp items were not allowed in jail. It must have been extremely slow and painful slashing one’s throat with a plastic knife, or was it a paper cut?