Midday Roundup: Federal agent's gun used in San Francisco murder

Bad policy. The illegal immigrant who shot and killed a woman on a busy San Francisco pier last week used a gun stolen from a federal agent in June. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez said he found the gun wrapped in a T-shirt. He claims he fired the .40-caliber weapon accidentally and didn’t mean to hurt 32-year-old Kate Steinle. The case has highlighted the problems with the nation’s immigration system and has become a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. Sanchez has seven felony convictions, mostly for drug crimes, and had been deported five times already. But San Francisco is a “safe harbor” city and law enforcement officials there turned him loose, rather than handing him over to federal immigration officers for another deportation. Even Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton acknowledged that’s not the best policy: “I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on. … This man had already been deported five times. And he should have been deported at the request of the federal government.”

Last-ditch effort. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made an impassioned plea at the European Union today for a bailout plan that will save his country from financial collapse. The country’s European creditors have given Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement to pay back the billions it owes and maintain its place in the eurozone. The Greek government delivered a proposal yesterday for a three-year bailout plan, but it includes a request for debt forgiveness, something German leaders have already said they won’t approve. While Tsipras and his ministers try to reach a deal with Europe, the country’s banks are struggling to stay solvent. The government put limits on cash withdrawals last week, but the banks are still running out of money. European Central Bank officials fear at least one may go bankrupt before Sunday’s deadline.

Sandwich suspension. Fast-food restaurant chain Subway has suspended its relationship with longtime spokesman Jared Fogle after learning the FBI raided his home as part of a child pornography investigation. Two months ago, police arrested the executive director of Fogle's charitable foundation. Russell Taylor, 43, faces seven counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Fogle's lawyer said he has no idea what officials are looking for at his clients' home but said he expects it is related to Taylor's case. Fogle reportedly is cooperating with investigators. A Subway spokesperson said the company was shocked to learn about the search at Fogle's home in an Indianapolis suburb.

Conspiracy. The IRS did not work alone in targeting political conservatives, according to newly released documents obtained by Judicial Watch. The watchdog group’s president, Tom Fitton, said officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI were in on it, too. “These documents further confirm these conspiracies between the IRS and the DOJ to prosecute tax-exempt entities that the Obama administration didn’t like and didn’t want participating in politics.” One document—labeled the “DOJ Recap” memo—gives details of a 2010 meeting of officials from the three agencies as they worked on a plan to prosecute members of conservative 501(c)4 organizations. That plan was never carried out, although the IRS delayed the tax-exempt status approval for about 200 of those groups. Fitton says the documents reveal the need for an independent investigation.

Pound foolish. The Social Security Administration spends more than it takes in attempting to recover what it calls “low dollar” misapplied disability payments, according to a new inspector general’s report. Those low-dollar, erroneous payments are usually less than a few hundred dollars, but the report says the agency routinely spends more than that collecting them. Earlier this year, Acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin told a Senate panel her agency takes stewardship of taxpayers’ money seriously. “We strive to make the right payment to the right person at the right time,” she said. “We use cost effective continuing disability reviews to determine whether an individual continues to be medically qualified.” Between 2008 and 2013, the Social Security Administration spent $323 million attempting to collect $128 million in incorrect payments.

WORLD Radio's Jim Henry contributed to this report.