By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 44-year-old Long Island man was arrested on Wednesday on charges of unwittingly helping fund the Times Square bomber Faisel Shahzad, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. The indictment charged that Mohammad Younis transferred thousands of dollars from Pakistan to the U.S. to Shahzad through an unlicensed money transfer business known as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For a while, during the public corruption trial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in downtown Chicago, the only sure conviction appeared to involve defendant Douglas Belkin, a Wall Street Journal reporter. In July, the 42-year-old reporter was arrested while covering the trial of Blagojevich and his brother Robert, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Three FBI agents and an agency analyst in the Washington area were charged with providing false statements after they allegedly failed to disclose on government forms the use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones commonly taken in the sports and bodybuilding world, authorities announced today. One…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Shawn Henry, who took over in February as head of the FBI’s Washington field office, is returning to headquarters to fill the number four spot in the bureau, ticklethewire.com has learned. Henry will take the post of Executive Assistant Director of the Criminal Cyber Response and Services Branch. Prior…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just when you thought you’d get a break from some Rod Blagojevich news. The latest: The Chicago Tribune reports that the ex-Illinois governor’s lawyers have asked the judge who presided over the trial to dismiss the one conviction for lying to the FBI. The Tribune reports that the lawyers filed a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior Justice Department civil rights official plans Wednesday to visit the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn and meet with Arab-American and civil rights leaders to discuss civil rights concerns, the Detroit Free Press reported. The official, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, will also attend a press conference on Wednesday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Actor Kevin Spacey, who plays disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in the new film “Casino Jack”, has some insights into the morally corrupt Abramoff after visiting him in federal prison. “I read what everyone read about him, and then I started reaching out to him, and it was two different people,” Spacey…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Short of handing over Osama bin Laden, the “underwear bomber” accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day isn’t likely to strike up a deal with prosecutors that will set him free any time soon, legal experts say. “I don’t think they’re going to be…
