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Mueller Meets With Google and Facebook to Discuss Wiretaps
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III headed out to California earlier this week, not to let his hair down, but to meet in Silicon Valley with top executives from several companies including Facebook and Google to discuss a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users, the New…
Talk of County Exec. Jack Johnson Taking Bribes Came Up During FBI Probe into Dirty Cops
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com WASHINGTON — An investigation into dirty cops and untaxed cigarettes and liquor in Prince George’s County, a suburb of Washington, grew after some targets of the probe mentioned to an undercover FBI agent that County Executive Jack Johnson was open to taking bribes, a law enforcement source told ticklethewire.com. Johnson and…
FBI Arrests 2 Who Worked For Madoff for More than 25 Years
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI Thursday morning arrested two people who worked for swindler Bernie Madoff. Joann Crupi was arrested at her home in Westfield, NJ and Annette Bongiorno was arrested at her home in Boca Raton, Fla., said Richard Kolko, spokesman for the FBI in New York. “Charges, in connection with the Madoff…
Surprise Verdict: NY Jury Acquits Gitmo Detainee in All But 1 of 285 Charges
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a surprise ending, a federal jury in New York on Wednesday acquitted the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court on all but one of 285 charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 terrorist bombings at U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam,…
U.S. Attys and AUSAs in Michigan Have Played Key Roles in Shaping “Rule of Law”
The “rule of law”—What does it mean? For most of history since its origin in ancient Greece it has meant that the law, however it was created, rules events and relationships not the whim of the sovereign or the government. But in this country rule of law has evolved through a gradual building process to…
Office of Professional Responsibility Finds 2 Prosecutors and FBI Agent Engaged in Misconduct in Ted Stevens Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A draft by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that two prosecutors and an FBI agent in the Sen. Ted Stevens case engaged in misconduct,the Associated Press reported. AP, citing ” a lawyer familiar with the matter,” said the report found that prosecutors Joseph Bottini and James…
Head of TSA Plans No Change in Airport Body Scans or Pat-Downs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In wake of the video-gone-viral where a passenger warns airport security not to touch his “junk”, head of the Transportation Security Administration told a Senate committee Wednesday there would be no changes in the use of full-body scans and pat-downs for passengers, AOL News reports. John Pistole, formerly the…
Jack Abramoff Associate Kevin Ring Convicted of Corruption
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A reminder of much that is wrong with Washington reared its ugly head Monday when a federal jury in the capital convicted Kevin A. Ring, who worked with corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff, on five counts related to a scheme to corrupt public officials by providing a stream of gifts…