New York

‘Preppie killer’ subpoenaed

“Preppie Killer” Robert Chambers was subpoenaed again Monday by the family of the woman he strangled in 1986, nearly five months after he allegedly ignored orders to answer questions about his finances in a $25 million wrongful-death case.

Chambers, who was in Manhattan Criminal Court because of his November arrest on misdemeanor drug charges, was handed the subpoena by an attorney for Jennifer Levin’s family.

Chambers, now 38, pleaded guilty in 1988 to manslaughter for killing Levin, 18, in Central Park during what he said was rough sex. He served the maximum 15 years in prison and was freed in 2003.

After Chambers’ plea, Levin’s family won a wrongful-death default judgment against him for $25 million. The family has said all the money it gets from Chambers will go to victims’ rights organizations.

As Chambers left court Monday through a back door, he said, “I was working until this happened,” referring to the drug arrest. He would not say where. He also said that what money he had was being used “to pay for representation in this case.”

Ohio

Government rules that teen must be deported

Immigration officials have ruled that a teenage refugee must return to his native China despite his claims that he will be killed by the smugglers who got him to America.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals last week denied a request to reopen the case of 17-year-old Young Zheng, a former Akron, Ohio, resident.

Zheng’s lawyers say they have new evidence that smugglers who helped Young enter the United States have threatened to kill him and his family because they owe the smugglers $60,000.

But immigration officials found Zheng’s claim “highly speculative and lacking in objective support.”

Zheng’s lawyers in Houston, where he is being held in a federal juvenile detention center, said they are disappointed with the ruling. On Saturday, they appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked to postpone Young’s deportation until the court decides the case.

The lawyers vowed to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

Zheng has said he left because he faced “extreme discrimination” as the second child of a couple who defied China’s one-child policy. His mother has died, and his father remains in China.

Virginia

Students battle to receive scholarships

Dozens of Virginians who were locked out of school during the state’s “massive resistance” campaign against desegregation will receive state scholarships as a way to make amends, and their names were announced Monday by state officials.

The first 60 recipients of the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship, named for the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled “separate but equal” public schools unconstitutional, will be getting awards of up to $5,500 apiece to use toward a college degree or a high school diploma.

The program, approved last year by the state legislature, dedicates $2 million toward the scholarships, which will be awarded over the next three years. Half that money was contributed by John Kluge, a Charlottesville philanthropist who offered up the sum to persuade hesitant lawmakers to come up with their share of the fund.