Q: When Tashfeen Malik went to the shooting range before the shooting in San Bernardino, did she wear a hijab or did she dress as an American woman?
—Carol Cooper, Gainesville
A: Malik was known to have dressed conservatively, and law enforcement officials said she and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, visited shooting ranges, but the FBI declined to say how she dressed on those occasions.
A spokeswoman for the FBI’s Los Angeles field office told Q&A on the News that the agency hadn’t commented on Malik’s manner of dress.
A firearms instructor at the Magnum Shooting Range in Riverside, Calif., said Farook had practiced there, but Malik had never been there, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Fourteen people were killed and 22 were wounded in the attack on Dec. 2.
Q: I’m reading about the sentencing for former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. Has the person who was blackmailing him been identified, caught and prosecuted?
—Jim Stovall, Roswell
A: Little is known about that person, called "Individual A" in court documents and by the media.
Individual A was said to be resident of Yorkville, Ill., and “has known” Hastert “most of Individual A’s life,” in a district court document from February 2014.
“Some legal experts have speculated that Individual A is being treated as a cooperating witness,” the Chicago Tribune wrote last July.
A federal prosecutor said last month that there is more than one victim in this case, the Chicago Sun-Times reported last month.
Andy Johnston with Fast Copy News Service wrote this column. Do you have a question? We’ll try to get the answer. Call 404-222-2002 or email q&a@ajc.com (include name, phone and city).
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