Tim Leiweke was indicted for allegedly orchestrating a bid-rigging scheme.
President Donald Trump answered questions about a controversial Sept. 2 boat strike while in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon. Trump, who said Tuesday that he "didn't know" about a second strike on an alleged drug boat in September that reports say killed two survivors of an initial strike, said Wednesday that he would be open to releasing more video of the boat strike.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that he didn't see the second strike and didn't see survivors from the initial strike. Hegseth has backed Adm. Mitch Bradley, who the White House said made the decision for the second strike. Bradley is set to brief the Senate and House Armed Services committees on the strikes on Thursday.
President Donald Trump was scheduled to make an announcement from the Oval Office at 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, the White House said.
Further details about the announcement were not released.
-ABC News’ Isabella Murray
The governors of Oklahoma and Arkansas will send a combined 260 National Guardsmen to Washington, D.C., after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week vowed to bring 500 more to the District after the shooting of two Guard members.
A U.S. Army spokesperson said the number of Guardsmen in the city will begin to tick up over the next several weeks as they arrive, but there's no target date or deadline to reach 500 new troops.
Oklahoma will send approximately 160 Guardsmen and Arkansas will send roughly 100, joining the 2,200 Guardsmen from eight other states and the District of Columbia.
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said Tuesday that all 2,200 Guard members in D.C. are now armed and that the additional 500 will also be armed. She confirmed that the Guard in D.C. is now conducting joint patrols with D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.
-ABC News’ Chris Boccia
The family of the Colombian fisherman who was killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him.
"From numerous news reports, we know that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was responsible for ordering the bombing of boats like those of Alejandro Carranza and the murder of all those on such boats," they wrote in their petition.
"Secretary Hegseth has admitted that he gave such orders despite the fact that he did not know the identity of those being targeted for these bombings and extra-judicial killings," they added.
Carranza's lawyer Dan Kovalik said the fisherman's family "has no recourse to adequate and effective remedies in Colombia to obtain redress for the injuries they have suffered due to the actions of the United States."
Hegseth has maintained that the strikes are all legal and claims that the military has evidence that the boats were carrying drugs.
-ABC News' Laura Romero
Republican Sen. Rand Paul characteristically broke with the majority of his GOP colleagues in his reaction to growing accusations of war crimes facing the Pentagon following the reveal of the second boat strike in September, which, according to reports, targeted survivors of an initial strike.
Paul said he had concerns about reports that Hegseth gave an order "that would say, 'kill them all,'" words the White House denied Hegseth said.
He also said he had concerns about the conflicting explanations about who knew about the details and when.
Most Republican senators responded to repeated questions about the Sept. 2 strikes by sidestepping and saying they support the overall mission in the Caribbean.
Sen. Eric Schmidt told reporters there was "100% legal justification for taking out the narco-terrorist boats."
-ABC News' Jay O'Brien, Emily Chang and Allison Pecorin
