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Feds Pile on Another Charge on Detroit’s Ex-Hip Hop Mayor Kilpatrick
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The feds in the Motown just keep digging a deeper and deeper hole for Kwame Kilpatrick, the ex-mayor Detroit who was once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor.” The Detroit Free Press reports that Kilpatrick and longtime friend Bobby Ferguson were charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment with extortion involving…
Book Claims “Deep Throat” Leaked Because He Wanted Top FBI Spot
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legend of Watergate lives on. A book to be released next month, “Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat,” reports that Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting…
Mob Museum Opens in Appropriate Setting: Las Vegas
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The nicknames have become legendary: The Chin, The Dapper Don, Bugsy. Now, there’s a place for them, all under one roof. The New York Times reported on Monday of a $42 million museum in Las Vegas dedicated to the Mob, three stories of a 41,000-square-foot landmark building with 17,000 square feet of…
FBI Shows Up; Texas Mayor Has Some Explaining to Do
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When you’re the mayor and the FBI shows up with a search warrant at your home, you, as Ricky Ricardo used to say, “got some splainin to do.” The FBI and Texas Rangers showed up Tuesday with a search warrant for Art Franco, the mayor of Anthony, Tex., reports the news…
Ala. Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Bird Feathers
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It ain’t the crime of the century. But it can still land you in one heck of a lot of trouble. Ask Alexander D. Alvarez. Alvarez pleaded guilty to the selling and possessing of illegal migratory bird feathers, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. Alvarez, of Atmore, Ala., entered…
Ex-Atty. Gen. Meese Declines to Comment on Operation Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The poor Daily Caller. The conservative news website, which is bent on bashing Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr., couldn’t get the former Attorney Gen. Ed Meese to do the same, despite attempts. The website tried to get Meese to trash Holder or others in the Justice Department in connection with the…
Off Color Texts Hurt Justice Department’s Largest Sting Targeting Foreign Bribery
By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post WASHINGTON — In text message after text message, FBI agents and their key informant joked about sex, booty calls, prostitutes, cigars, the Village People, the informant’s wives and an agent’s girlfriend. They even pondered who might play their roles in a movie based on their sting. When arrests were…
$160,000 Armored Car Failed to Protect Slain ICE Agent Jaime Zapata
By Nick Miroff and William Booth Washington Post. MEXICO CITY — When U.S. special agent Jaime Zapata was shot dead one year ago on a notorious stretch of highway in central Mexico, he was driving a $160,000 armored Chevy Suburban, built to exacting government standards, designed to defeat high-velocity gunfire, fragmentation grenades and land mines….