By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, a combative and divisive figure in a town with too little cash and too much crime, was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in prison in a bribery scandal, the Detroit Free Press reported. Conyers, the wife of veteran Congressman John Conyers (D-Detroit), was sentenced even though…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As I predicted earlier in the week, a mistrial for the second time was declared Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court in the trial of right wing talk show host Harold Turner, who was accused of threatening the lives of three Court of Appeals judges in Chicago by posting their photos on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday arrested an Italian man in Miami Beach who’s suspected of helping a Sicilian Mafia family expand operations in the U.S., the Miami Herald reported. Agents arrested Roberto Settineri as part of a multi-year international probe into his criminal ties to the Cosa Nostra in Italy, the Gambino…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Charges have been dropped against a uniformed FBI police officer who was accused of watching teen girls try on prom gowns in a dressing room during a fashion show at a West Virginia mall last year, WBOY TV reported Tuesday. A Marion County magistrate judge last December found FBI police officer…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Just weeks before government scientist Bruce Ivins’ suicide, a grand jury was convening on the third floor of the federal courthouse, near the U.S. Capitol, looking into the 2001 anthrax murders. Things weren’t looking good for Ivins, the only suspect in the case. It was July 2008….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn continues to chip away at the Colombo crime family. On Tuesday, the office announced the indictment of eight people tied to the notorious crime family on charges including fraud and extortion linked to the World Trade Center. The indictment alleges that the Colombo-controlled trucking company…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 67-year-old retired FBI agent in Nevada has pleaded guilty to evading about $109,000 in income taxes, authorities said. Jan Lindsey of Henderson, Nevada, pleaded guilty Friday in Las Vegas to one count of felony tax evasion. Sentencing is set for July 9. The 26-year-veteran of the FBI retired in 1995…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano echoed what has been said pretty much all along: Suicide pilot Joseph Stack, 53, who crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin last month was not a domestic terrorist but simply someone carrying out a personal agenda. Napolitano made those remarks Tuesday in a…
