May 2010
FBI Arrests Chicago Cop For Lying to Agents
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago cop Victor Brown found himself on the wrong side of the law Monday when he was arrested by the FBI and internal affairs. The Chicago Tribune reports that Brown, 36, faces charges of lying to FBI agents about taking cash from another cop in exchange for a promise that he…
Fed Court Seldom Gets Out of Hand: Monday Was an Exception in Detroit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Things seldom get out of hand in federal court. Sometimes a defense attorney or prosecutor asks a witness an objectionable question that stirs a round of passionate arguments. Sometimes a judge loudly scolds. or even screams at an attorney. But Monday, the Detroit News reported that jurors in the Highwaymen Motorcycle…
FBI Asked Homeland Security To Limit “No Fly List” Notification to Airlines About NY Bomber
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Could it be that not every airline was given emergency notification that NY car bomber Faisal Shahzad had been put on the no fly list? Newsweek’s DeClassified blog says YES. It reports that the FBI asked Homeland Security officials to limit the notification to a select number of airlines out of…
Ex-Mexican Gov. Extradited to U.S. For Taking Bribes From Drug Cartel and Laundering $19 Mil Through Lehman Brothers Accounts
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-Governor from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo was extradited to the U.S. on charges of accepting million of dollars in bribes to help the violent Juarez Cartel dump tons of cocaine into the U.S. , and of laundering $19 million in drug proceeds through Lehman Brothers accounts, the U.S….
FBI Report: More Law Enforcement Officers Died in Line of Fire in 2009
By Allan Lengel For AOL News From three Pittsburgh cops gunned down in one day to a U.S. border patrol agent ambushed by Mexican teens, the year 2009 was an especially deadly one for local and federal law enforcement, according to the FBI. In its preliminary report, the FBI found a 17 percent jump in…
Let the Games Begin: President Officially Nominates Solicitor Gen. Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
By Allan Lengel ticklethe wire.com Let the games begin. With the smiling nominee flanked to his left, and his vice president to his right, President Obama on Monday morning announced the nomination of Solicitor General Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court. Heaping superlatives upon superlatives, he called her a “superb” Solicitor General and said she…