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Dept. of Corrections Employee Accused of Aiding Heroin Dealer
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Seattle Department of Corrections worker wasn’t acting so correctly, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Corrections Officer Christian Knight is charged with providing suspected heroin and meth drug dealer Todd Hamilton, a convicted felon with connections to the Aryan Nation, “security” and intelligence on investigations, according to court documents. Hamilton was on…
ATF Changes Policy, Gun Control Advocates Unhappy
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The ATF is loosening restrictions on the sale of guns to noncitizens, reports the New York Times. Justice Department lawyers have decided that a rule requiring noncitizens to document that they have lived in a state for at least 90 days has no legal basis, according to a letter sent to…
Feds Hand Out Seized Money to Local Law Enforcement
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It was more than just a stocking stuffer. Federal agents gave more than $1.2 million in confiscated drug money to five police agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The money came from a former medical marijuana dispensary in the area. DEA and…
FBI Suspects “Geezer Bandit” Ain’t Such a Geezer: Looking for Customers Who Bought Elderly Mask
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dumfounded by the success of the “Geezer Bandit” — a prolific bank robber who appears to be in his 70s — the FBI in Southern California is now aggressively pursuing the theory that he is actually a younger man who has donned a mask while sticking up 16 banks in the…
Countrywide Financial Agrees to Pay $335 Million Settlement to Resolve Allegations of Lending Discrimination
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Mass. Man Sentenced for Economic Espionage for Israel
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Elliot Doxer has become Massachusetts’ first ever individual prosecuted for foreign economic espionage, according to a statement from the FBI. Doxer was sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement and electronic monitoring on Tuesday, as well as fined $25,000, after providing trade secrets to an undercover…
Investigators in WikiLeaks Case Targeted by Groups Online
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Investigators in the prosecution of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking top secret documents to WikiLeaks, may face a backlash from activist hackers online, reports NextGov.com. Gregg Housh, an Internet activist who follows the pro-WikiLeaks hacking collective known as “Anonymous”, said there is talk in the chat rooms of retaliating…
Column: Republican Campaign Against Atty. Gen. Holder Ends Up Being Just Another Exercise in Partisan Politics
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Partisan politics inside the Beltway has been around forever. That’s a given. Unfortunately, these days it has reached such ridiculous heights. That being said, if the Republicans had been serious at all about pressuring Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to resign, they would have been a little smarter and tried to…