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Ex-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie Routinely Exceeded Hotel Costs at Taxpayer Expense, IG Report Finds
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey who crusaded against corruption, Chris Christie — now the New Jersey governor — routinely stayed in expensive hotels at taxpayer expense, far exceeding the government allowance, according to a Justice Department Inspector General report released Monday. The report, which looked at the travel of…
Mother of Slain FBI Agent Sam Hicks Wrote Judge to Ask for Justice
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mother of slain Pittsburgh FBI agent Samuel Hicks asked a federal judge for justice before sentencing for drug dealer Robert Korbe, whose wife shot and killed agent Hicks, according to a letter she wrote to a judge in September. The letter was unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh….
Napolitano Announces Clamp Down on Air Cargo Security
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. moved Monday to clamp down on the vulnerable area of cargo shipments from abroad. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the banning of “high risk” cargo shipments and a ban on shipments from Yemen and Somalia. “Following the thwarted terrorist plot last week to conceal and ship…
White Supremacist Gets 18 Months for Mailing Noose to Ohio NAACP Official
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A white Supremacist from Oregon is off to prison. A federal judge in Toledo sentenced Daniel Lee Jones of Portland to 18 months in prison for sending the president of the Lima, Ohio, chapter of the NAACP, a noose by mail. He pleaded guilty in May. In his plea agreement, Jones…
FBI-led Raids Result in Rescue of 69 Child Hookers and Arrests of 99 Pimps
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Child prostitution continues to be a nationwide problem. With that in mind, over the past few days, the FBI along with local and state police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country V, in which 69 child prostitutes were “rescued”, the FBI…
Accused Scammer Allen Stanford Takes Beating in Jail: Gets Transfer to Fed Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, whose alleged scamming is in a league with the king of scammers Bernard Madoff, was granted a transfer from a private Texas jail to a federal prison after getting a major beating from a fellow inmate, Bloomberg News reports. Bloomberg reported that the transfer allows Stanford…
Furious Cheney Confronted Pres. Bush About Scooter Libby Pardon
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “not very surprising”, Dick Cheney was fuming when President Bush refused to pardon vice presidential aide I “Scooter” Libby after he was convicted of lying in the leak investigation into the identity of CIA spy Valerie Plalme. Appearing in an interview on NBC’s Today Show, said ex-…
DEA Used Mumbai Plotter Despite Warnings
By GINGER THOMPSON, ERIC SCHMITT and SOUAD MEKHENNET New York Times WASHINGTON — American authorities sent David C. Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them in Pakistan months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite a warning that he sympathized with radical Islamic groups, according to court records and interviews….