By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not a good thing for the judiciary. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr, 67, of Georgia was arrested Friday night near Sandy Springs, Ga., after he bought $160 worth of cocaine and Roxycodone, a narcotic pain killer, from an undercover agent. The paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The director of “Die Hard” is off to live hard. A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced John McTiernan Monday to one year in jail and a $100,000 fine for lying to FBI agents over a wiretapping case in which he hired rogue detective Anthony Pellicano to wiretap film producer Charles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Four Alabama state legislators, three lobbyists, two business owners and one of their employees and an employee of legislature were indicted in a bribery scheme to promote legislation to legalize electronic bingo machines, the Justice Department announced Monday. “Today, charges were unsealed against 11 legislators, businessmen, lobbyists and associates who, together,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds are saying there’s no indication of any specific terrorist threat to the U.S. or its citizens as there is in Europe, the Associated Press reported. The FBI and Homeland Security Department in an intelligence bulletin said there is nothing out there to indicate there’s a planned attack…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has captured one man but is still looking for at least two others in the armored car robbery in South Florida on Friday in which a Brinks security guard was killed, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said Sunday that the FBI captured Nathaniel Moss, 31, on Friday, shortly after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Lester G. Davis of Atlanta, who developed an impressive record for capturing bank robbers in the 1950s while working in New Orleans, died Saturday at age 94, according to an obituary in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Lester’s career with the FBI spanned 32 years, starting in 1942. He…
By Anne-Marie O’Connor and William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service TANCITARO, Mexico – Gustavo Sanchez worked hard in this Mexican farming town at one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. He was a mayor. Last weekend, Sanchez and a town councilman disappeared. Their bodies were found Monday, the skulls smashed open in the…
