TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -  U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer  took responsibility on Sunday for a tweet about the firing of former national security adviser Michael Flynn  a central figure in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
FILE PHOTO:  Lawyer John Dowd  exits Manhattan Federal Court in New York  U.S. on May 11  2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
In an interview with  Axios  John Dowd  said the tweet was “my mistake” and that  he  drafted the tweet that raised more questions about whether there had been attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation.
“I‘m out of the tweeting business ”  Dowd  told Axios. “I did not mean to break news.”

SOLUTION: John Dowd

PROBLEM: The department's narcotics division began the investigation when a source told them about the group  officials said. The buys were conducted by undercover officers who infiltrated the group  according to Anthony Riccio  chief of the department's organized crime division.
 Riccio  said there are “dozens and dozens of these secret groups  a lot of them used for illegal things  including trafficking the guns and firearms. It's dozens of them out there.”
 He  said many of the guns had defaced serial numbers  making them difficult to trace. “These are guns that are winding up in the South Side  West Side of the city being used in gang shootings ”  Riccio  said.
 He  said the Facebook group selling guns and drugs would not be found by searching and that someone had to vouch for anyone who wanted to join them.
“I absolutely think Facebook has a responsibility to monitor this and for this very reason ”  Riccio  said. “There’s other illegal activities — I want to point out this is phase one — there's other illegal activities going on on Facebook. We're looking at potentially human trafficking  things of that nature as well. There's a lot of tentacles going out here.

SOLUTION: Anthony Riccio

PROBLEM: âOur message is clear: If you attack someone in our jails you will face consequences â said  department spokesman Peter Thorne .
 He  blamed the departmentâs inability to use six sophisticated âionizingâ body scanners to find the homemade knives on inmates.
 Man  slashed in holding cell by convicted murderer suing city
âWe will continue to work closely with state legislators to pursue the change in state law â  Thorne  vowed.
 Man  slashed in holding cell by convicted murderer suing city
âWe need Albany lawmakers in the next legislative session to pass the Secure Pass Scanner Bill and help us save lives  otherwise they will be complicit in this violence â  he  said.

SOLUTION:
Peter Thorne