Best-selling author Greg Mortensen has been ordered to pay back $1 million after an investigation has found he diverted money that was donated to his charity. In other headlines: President Obama has signed the JOBS bill into law, a measure that is designed to help businesses raise capital; a Marine Board recommends Sergeant Gary Stein be dismissed with a less-than-honorable discharge after he posted critical comments about President Obama online; the Labor Department will issue its March jobs report this morning; and Russia criticizes a prison sentence that has been handed to convicted arms smuggler Viktor Bout.
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