By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who made his fair share of doe working politicians on the Hill, is finished working at a kosher Baltimore pizza joint now that he’s finished his sentence and is on supervised release, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Abramoff, who was convicted on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A government report found that U.S. Attorney’s Offices declined 50 percent of the cases from American Indian reservations from 2005-2009, the Associated Press reported. The Government Accountability Office report found that Federal prosecutors resolved 9,000 of the 10,000 cases they got during that period. Half were declined for prosecution…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial and seldom-at-a-loss-for-words filmmaker Michael Moore is stepping into the fray and defending WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — and putting up money too. In a statement posted on his website Tuesday morning, Moore wrote: “Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Trial is underway in Las Vegas for retired FBI agent Edward Preciado-Nuno, who is accused of murdering his son’s girlfriend in November 2008. His son had been trying to evict the girlfriend from the home. Preciado-Nuno, 63, claims he killed girlfriend Kimberly Long after she attacked him with a hammer. He…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted swindler Bernie Madoff won’t be attending the funeral of his son Mark, who committed suicide in his Manhattan home over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported. “Mr. Madoff will not be attending the funeral out of consideration” for his family, attorney Ira Sorkin…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — America profits from the murderous ways of the Mexican cartels when it comes to supplying weapons. Washington Post reporters James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz, in a year long investigation, uncovered the names of the top 12 U.S. gun dealers of guns traced to Mexico in the past two…
W. Lee Rawls/ u of va. photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — W. Lee Rawls, who served as chief of staff and senior counsel to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III until 2009, died earlier this month of acute leukemia in Washington, the Washington Post reported. He was 66. The Post reported that he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971, defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me,” Ellsberg said, according to the news organization Democracy Now! “I would be…
