By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. is an honorable man. So I believe him when he tells Congress he didn’t know about ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious until the controversy exploded in 2011. The problem is that he needs to take responsibility for it. Period. He’s the top dog. People…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rep. William R. Keating (D-Mass.) is asking Congress to pay the families of two men allegedly killed by James “Whitey’’ Bulger the $8.5 million they were initially awarded by a Boston federal judge, the Boston Globe reported. The Court of Appeals this year tossed out the award on a technicality, saying…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, who became one of the more recent poster childs for greed and corruption on Wall Street, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 11 years in prison and fined $10 million for insider trading, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. He was also ordered to…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Obama administration’s latest push against the medical marijuana industry is aimed at the media. U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said she plans to start going after newspapers, radio stations and other outlets that advertise marijuana dispensaries, reports California Watch. “I’m not just seeing print advertising,” U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy told California…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The massive scandal to rip off a charitable Holocaust fund designed to benefit victims who were persecuted by the Nazis, continued to unravel in N.Y. on Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan announced the arrest of eight more people for being part of a plot to defraud the fund out…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the suburbs of D.C., resident Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid was more than just a suburban dweller, at least according to the FBI. Authorities announced this week charges against the 47-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, who lived in Leesburg, Va., and allegedly collected video and audio recordings and other information about people…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI special agent and his wife have been charged in Richmond, Va. federal court in a $1.3 million investment fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Ex-agent John Robert Graves, 52, and Sara Turberville Graves, 44, both of Fredericksburg, Va., are charged with multiple counts. Authorities said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy surrounding the decision by the Boston Globe to publish the name of the woman who tipped off the FBI as to the whereabouts of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, continued on Wednesday. The FBI in Boston posted a statement on its website denying it played any role in the publication…
