The baseball star, the Hollywood 10, Oliver North. And Lois Lerner of the IRS. The official enmeshed in a probe of the tax agency is the latest on a roll call of witnesses called before Congress who refused to answer lawmakers’ questions. A few well-known names who invoked Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination: ___ White House gate crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi declined to tell lawmakers in 2010 how they sailed past the Secret Service to attend President Barack Obama’s first state dinner uninvited. They were shadowed to the dinner by a film crew for a show then in the making, the “Real Housewives of D.C.” Mrs. Salahi became a regular and also appeared on “Celebrity Rehab.” [...]
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Man pleads guilty in Picasso vandalism case
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