Weekend Series on Crime History: Mobster Bugsy Siegel and Las Vegas
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — No surprise, politics is surfacing inside the beltway. The Justice Department on Friday expressed disappointment in a Congressional committee which issued a subpoena for documents from ATF on a controversial gun program, saying it had already told the committee it planned to cooperate. “We are therefore surprised and disappointed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A show down on Capitol Hill seems to be getting closer. The head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform announced Friday morning that he was issuing a subpoena to ATF to force it to turn over documents relating to a controversial gun program “Project Gunrunner” and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Like many wild parties, once they’re over, the clean up can be a bear. Well, the party has long been over for Madoff and the very expensive clean up is underway. And it ain’t close to being over. The Washington Post’s David Hilzenrath reports that the clean up has…
D.C.’s former Mayor Marion Barry, currently a city council member, has had his share of brushes with federal law enforcement. As you recall in 1990 he was busted in an FBI sting smoking crack in a D.C. hotel room. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges relating to failure to file and pay taxes….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The battle between Capitol Hill and ATF seems to be heating up. ATF failed to meet the Wednesday deadline to turn over requested information about a controversial gun-walking operation to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Becca Watkins, a spokeswoman for the committee, told ticklethewire.com Friday morning…