By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein — some times known as a maverick — did something fairly unorthox for a federal judge, but maybe not so unorthodox for Weinstein: he went to visit the neighborhood where a crack cocaine crew ruled, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Weinstein, 89,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Since the year 2000, the government has only collected about two cents on the dollar from hundreds of the nation’s biggest swindlers who were fined by federal judges, USA Today reports. A USA Today reported that its analysis of Justice Department records shows the difficulty of the Justice Department collecting fines…
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David Olive writes about the business of homeland security. He formerly served as Chief of Staff for then-U.S. Representative Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) and is the founder of Catalyst Partners, a government relations and public affairs firm in Washington. By David Olive Security DeBrief At a time when Congress is looking to cut federal spending, why…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph Boelter, head of the Minneapolis FBI, who headed up a large scale probe into counterterrorism involving local Somalis heading overseas to fight with a terrorist organization, is headed east to Washington to become the agency’s deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Boelter told the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI may be the bigger of the two agencies, but that didn’t stop the Secret Service from defeating the bureau in annual hockey game in Arlington, Va. CNN reported that Secret Service defeated the FBI 7-6 in overtime at the Kettler Capital Iceplex. The FBI won last year….
