By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. has issued a memo calling for a temporary hiring freeze for all Justice Department employees at least until spring, saying the federal government is “facing unprecedented budget challenges”, ABC News reported. “I anticipate revisiting the Department’s hiring and staff situation in the spring, once we know…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 48-year-old administrative officer for the DEA has been indicted in Minneapolis for producing child pornography involving a 15-year-old boy. Scott James Whitcomb of Zimmerman, Minn., was indicted Thursday in federal court and charged with coercing a 15-year-old boy into engaging in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing pornography,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two St. Petersburg, Fla. cops and a gunman were killed Monday morning and a deputy U.S. Marshal was wounded when gunfire erupted while authorities were trying to serve a domestic battery warrant at a home, the St. Petersburg Times reported. The dead gunman was identified as Hydra Lacy Jr., a convicted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF and the NRA are two acronyms that seldom play together well. So it’s no surprise that the NRA — the National Rifle Association — and other gun rights advocates aren’t happy with the White House’ nomination of Andrew Traver to head the agency. Traver currently heads up the…
doj photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — On Friday, the Justice Department took pause to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s Swearing-in as Attorney General in a building named after him. With Kennedy’s widow Ethel and daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in attendance, along with some other notables, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr….
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Page PITTSBURGH — American mobsters probably assumed they had a free ride after Sept. 11. East Coast crime families probably breathed easier after the Justice Department turned its attention toward foreigners whose names appeared on terror-watch lists. For sure, the specter of international terrorism provided the FBI and other law enforcement…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Charlotte Observer noted of Jerry Senatore: “As a boy, Jerry Senatore turned to his mother after an episode of the TV cop show ‘Dragnet’ and proclaimed: ‘Mom, I am going to be an FBI agent one day’.” Last week, Senatore, who spent 20 years in the FBI’s Charlotte Division —…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ousted U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers will return to her old job on Jan. 31, U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced. Chambers was fired in 2004 for publicly voicing concerns about budget shortfalls and staff shortages which she said left citizens vulnerable to crime. The Merit Systems…
