NY FBI Gives Dir. Community Leadership Award to Activist Devorah Halbertstam

Former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, FBI Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) Joseph Demarest Devorah Halberstam and the Honorable Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York. Photo credit: Matthew Coleman, FBI By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Devorah Halberstam, whose son was killed in a terrorist attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, was honored last week…

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Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Says Black Community Needs to Confront Violence and Other Social Ills

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Before a Sunday church crowd of more than 400 people in Long Island , Atty. General Eric Holder Jr. advocated a “spiritual awakening” among African Americans, saying the community needs to confront violence and other social ills that disproportionately impact blacks, Newsday reported. Holder, a native of Queens, honed in on…

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Fed Judge Gives NY Woman Probation for Smuggling Monkey Meat

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities at Kennedy Airport three years ago stumbled across a little surprise while inspecting shipments from Africa: a package containing monkey meat. On Friday, a federal judge in Brooklyn gave Staten Island resident Mamie Manneh, a native of Liberia, probation for illegally importing the meat that can carry numerous infectious diseases…

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Blago’s Chicago Lawyers Want FBI Interviews of Pres. Elect Obama and Staff

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The criminal case against ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich can only get more interesting. In the latest move, his lawyers have asked for the FBI interviews of then President-elect Barack Obama,his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The lawyers in a court…

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