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Mexican Lawmakers Angry Over DEA’s Money Laundering
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Relations between U.S. and Mexico may suffer even more in wake of the latest disclosure of a DEA money laundering sting. The New York Times reported that DEA agents allowed and even facilitated the movement of drug money among criminals in the hopes that the paper trail would lead to top …
Kashmir Lobbyist on Pakistan Payroll Expected to Plead Guilty
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former capitol hill lobbyist for disputed Kashmir territory between India and Pakistan is expected to plead guilty to federal charged on Wednesday, reports the Washington Post. Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri American Council at the time of his July arrest, is accused of secretly receiving millions…
Column: FBI Agent Critical of Ex-Official Defending the Agency
FBI agent Theresa Foley was the first full-time female FBI agent to be stationed at Guantanamo. She has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department, saying she was made to bunk with vermin that gave her a tropical disease. Theresa Foley has undergone multiple surgeries since contracting the disease and has been disabled and is…
Hinckley’s Sister Says He’s Harmless
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Panel Recommends Changing FBI’s Definition in Rape; Director Must Now Sign Off on It
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The only question is: What took so long? After much deliberation and consideration, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Advisory Board voted Tuesday to update the agency’s narrow definition of rape for its Uniform Crime Report, a definition that hadn’t been updated since 1929, Huffington Post reports. The crime report is often used…
Ex-Suburban D.C. County Executive Gets 7-Plus Years in Prison For Bribery
Jack Johnson/wusa By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Jack Johnson, a former county executive in suburban D.C., who was caught on a phone wiretap directing his wife inside their home to destroy evidence while FBI agents stood at the door, was sentenced Tuesday in Maryland federal court to 7 years and 3 months in prison and…
Judge Zagel: Blago Set and Sought Senate Seat Price
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday faced the first of two days of hearings for his sentencing on public corruption charges. The usually chatty ex-governor had walked quietly out of his home earlier in the morning and into the courtroom via a passage blocked off to the media he once revelled in, a…
Why Aren’t the Bankers in Trouble?
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In the wake of the financial sector’s meltdown, many were on the hunt for the blood of bankers. But convictions for wrongdoing on Wall Street have been remarkably scarce in the aftermath of the industry’s collapse–no small part of why Occupy Wall Street protestors have gathered in lower Manhattan. A Wall…