March 23, 2009

In a ceremony this past Friday at FBI Headquarters, Director Robert S. Mueller, III recognized the recipients of the 2008 Director’s Community Leadership Award. These leaders, selected by their area FBI field office, have demonstrated outstanding contributions to their local communities through service. The FBI is grateful for the work of each of these individuals and organizations on behalf of their communities.

“Whatever the motivation—an unfilled need, a tragic occurrence, a desire to give back—these are people who make things happen and enlist others in their cause,” said Director Mueller. “They are activists who have earned their prestige through good works.”

Full story available at fbi.gov.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. (CBS) — The 17th annual Holiday Meals for Heroes helped the families of fallen and injured first responders start the holiday weekend with a breakfast at Sunnybrook Gold Club.

“They’re all members of the worst club in the world, made up of the finest people in the world,” said James Binns, president and CEO of Holiday Meals for Heroes. He was talking about the families attending the breakfast on Good Friday.

Binns’ mission was to make sure no one forgets the fallen and injured first responders in these pictures. Heroes like Sergeant Christopher Fitzgerald, the first Temple University officer killed in the line of duty last year. He also wanted to honor Philadelphia Police Sergeant Richard Mendez, a 22-year veteran who was shot and killed while trying to intervene during a car break-in at Philadelphia International Airport last October.

Read the full story here.

From BigTrial.net:

In one corner, we have Helen Ubinas, a Philadelphia Daily News columnist who can’t believe those “rogue cops” got their jobs back. She wants to know why our top city officials who previously did so much political grandstanding  in this case don’t have much to say about it anymore.

In the other corner we have Jimmy Binns, the veteran defense lawyer who not only represented Rocky on the silver screen but also Michael Spicer, one of the rogue cops who beat the rap and got his job back. The same Jimmy Binns who publicly predicted to Judge Eduardo Robreno at a bail hearing last August that his guy would beat all the charges and walk out of federal court a free man.

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The opening from attorney James J. Binns in the U.S. v. Michael Spicer trial.

Listen to Jimmy Binns guarantee Mike Spicer’s acquittal at his bail hearing for a Rico Conspiracy indictment.