By Allan Lengel For AOL News A former California FBI agent who federal prosecutors say abused his position to help pro golfer Greg Norman in his 2006 divorce was sentenced Monday in an unrelated case to one year’s probation, including three months of home confinement, The Orange County Register reported. Peter Norell Jr., a veteran…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Ex-CIA official Andrew Warren pleaded guilty Monday to drugging and sexually assaulting an Algerian woman in 2008, while he was stationed in that country, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. He also pleaded guilty to using cocaine while possessing a firearm. Warren’s plea in U.S. District Court in…
William Donati is an English professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and author of the just-released book: “Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss” By William Donati For ticklethewire.com LAS VEGAS –– Hollywood was criticized in the thirties for films like Public Enemy and Little Caesar: Gangsters were portrayed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It seems conman Bernie Madoff is at peace now that he’s among among fellow thieves. New York magazine has written a fascinating piece on how Madoff seems relieved to have gotten caught and is admired by some of his fellow inmates at the Butner Correctional Facility in North Carolina. Lifer at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret is expected to do everything within its power to protect the vice president of the United States. But where does it draw the line? Perhaps when it comes to Super Soaker attacks. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reports that on Saturday Vice President Joe Biden…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Don’t worry BP, there may be a less popular distributor of oil products than you: The Mexican drug cartels. USA Today reports that cartels are tapping into Mexican underground pipelines and siphoning tons of crude oil and gasoline. Some is being peddled in the U.S. Authorities estimate the thievery is generating…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John W. Douglas, an assistant U.S. attorney general who led the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division from 1963 to 1966, died Wednesday in the nation’s capital from complications from a stroke, the Washington Post reported. He was 88. The paper reported that Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy designated him in…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — “EVERYBODY WOULD be winging it.” That is how one law enforcement official described the likely Justice Department response to an attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The remark was included in a critical report by the department’s inspector general, which concluded that the department “is not…
