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Weekend Series on Crime History: The Attempted Assassinations of Gerald Ford
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Justice Dept. Mulls Over Asking Supreme Court to Consider Case Involving GPS Device
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The lawyers over at the Justice Department are trying to figure out whether they should ask the Supreme Court to consider a case with far reaching implications involving the use of a GPS to track a criminal, the Blog of Legal Times reports. The case centers around former D.C. night club…
Fed Prosecutors Say Sentence for ex-ICE Official Could Set Record
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors are hoping on Monday to land the toughest sentence in the history of federal corruption cases when former ICE official Constantine Peter Kallas appears in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The former Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was found guilty of three dozen corruption…
Ooops! Buffalo U.S. Atty. Apologizes After ICE Agents Raid Wrong Home at Gunpoint
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com “Ooops” and “sorry” are the two things that come to mind in this case. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. of Buffalo and Lev J. Kubiak, head of the Homeland Security Investigations in that city, apologized to a businessman whose home was mistakenly raided earlier this month by ICE agents, the…
New Orleans Man Arrested for Sending Threatening Emails to FBI Agent That Referenced Agent’s Son
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We all get annoying emails – but these were apparently way over the top. Authorities earlier this week arrested a New Orleans man for sending threatening emails to an FBI agent that referenced the agent’s son, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The paper reported that David Christenson Jr. , 53,…
Rep. Issa Blasts ATF in Letter Over Gun Running Operations
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy overĀ ATF programs designed to stop the flow of guns into Mexico isn’t going away. Some guns have been used in serious crimes. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has fired off a letter to Ken Melson, head of ATF, accusing…
Ex-Top Adviser to FBI Dir. Nominated as Assist. Atty. Gen. For National Security
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lisa Monaco, a former top adviser to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, and currently Principal Deputy Attorney General, has been nominated by the White House to fill the job of Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the website Main Justice reported. She would replace interim Tod Hinnen, who stepped in…
Justice Dept. Gives New Orleans Police Dept. A Flunking Grade
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, the Justice Department on Thursday unveiled its findings following a review of the New Orleans police department, and it was anything but pretty. The report by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division found a pattern of “unconstitutional conduct”, poor policies, non-existent training and inadequate leadership. “Unfortunately, our conclusions reveal…