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Federal prosecutors filed a 20-count criminal complaint against sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, charging him with discharging a firearm as part of an extortion scheme in the deaths of six people in Maryland and one in the District of Columbia.

Ray Suarez looks at the controversy surrounding the new federal board created to oversee the accounting industry with two former officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission.