By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Top Ten Fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger of Boston may be a cold and calculated killer, but apparently he does like literature. The Boston Globe reports authorities last week circulated posters of Bulger, 80, and his girlfriend Catherine Greig, 59, at bookstores around the ocean front city of Victoria in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Republican star Sarah Palin may soon have a speaking engagement, but she won’t be able to collect a lucrative speaking fee as she as on different occasions. The Huffington Post reports that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed her to testify in the trial of former college student David Kernell, 22, in Knoxville,…
While the U.S. fights battles in Afghanistan and Iraq, another war far closer threatens the safety of people in the U.S. — the drug war in Mexico where murder of police is common place. Now the war there is spreading. The money is too good for it to simply die off. More needs to be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court of taking a series of bribes from immigrants seeking documentation to remain in the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 39, of Alta Loma, Calif. was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Actor Michael Douglas’ son Cameron, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, got a five year prison sentence and a $25,000 fine in New York federal court on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge Richard told the 31-year-old Douglas that this was his “last chance to make it.” Douglas apologized…
NY FBI Agents Involved in the Mob Arrests/photo by Richard Kolko By Allan Lengel For AOL News The New York feds came crashing down on the Gambino crime family Tuesday, indicting 14 members and associates — including one of the top bosses — on charges ranging from murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking to tampering with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– It’s not particularly shocking. Nonetheless, it’s interesting that the FBI had a file on a 1963 incident involving James von Brunn, the man who killed a Holocaust museum guard in Washington last June 10, according to the Associated Press. Von Brunn, 88, died in January before he could go…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago fed prosecutors in the upcoming political corruption trial of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich are worried defense attorneys might go for “jury nullification” and ask jurors to ignore the facts of the case and acquit. “The government respectfully moves this Court to preclude the defendants from arguing, or otherwise presenting evidence…
