By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Trying to silence ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich is almost as challenging as capping the oil spill in the Gulf. Still, U.S. District Judge James Zagel, who is presiding over Blagojevich’s public corruption trial in Chicago, thought he’d try to slow the word spillage a little. Just before opening statements on Tuesday,…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent on a bicycle shot and killed a 15-year-old Mexican boy Monday at an international bridge near downtown El Paso during a rock throwing incident, authorities said, according to the Associated Press. According to authorities, agents had detained suspected illegal immigrants when some people started hurling rocks…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com All is not always fair or safe in love and war. The FBI arrested a Florida woman on Monday with trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband, who helped put her behind bars in a major drug-money laundering case, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported. Mercedes Morales, 57, of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — John S. Pistole, the FBI’s second in command, who has been nominated to head the Transportation Security Administration, is expected to get grilled Thursday on his views about collective bargaining rights for TSA employees, the Washington Post reports. Pistole is scheduled to go before a Senate nomination hearing and…
By Allan Lengel tickilehtwire.com A Michigan man and his son in Colorado have been arrested and charged with conspiring to send a threatening letter to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.) for his support of health care, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit announced. Russell Hesch, 73, of West Branch, Mi., a known critic of Stupak, allegedly…
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…
