By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The lawyer for federal government acknowledged that Border Patrol erased videotapes that captured allegedly deplorable conditions at several Arizona detention centers but urged a judge not to discipline the agency, the Arizona Capitol Times reports. Assistant Attorney General Sarah Fabian said the agency was under no obligation to save the recordings…
By Craig R. McCoy and Angela Couloumbis Philadelphia Inquirer Staff A Montgomery County judge on Monday ordered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane to stand trial on criminal charges after a hearing in which one of Kane’s most trusted aides testified against her, and the judge repeatedly rejected her legal arguments. Prosecutors say Kane, a Democrat…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has found herself on the other side of the law. After state authorities began investigating her over an allegedly shady deal with a union and trip to Haiti, the FBI is making its own inquiry, The Philadelphia Inquiry reports. Kane is under investigation following allegations…
DeKalb County government is “rotten to the core,” investigators said, outlining allegations of bribery, theft of government property and corruption.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department could make a deal to convince NSA leaker Edward Snowden to return to the U.S. after he fled in 2013 following the shocking release of secret surveillance documents. That’s according to former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who spoke to Yahoo News about the issue. Holder said the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s not an award to celebrate. The Utah Headlines Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists bestowed the Black Hole Award to the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI. The Deseret News published a letter to the Attorney General from the journalist group. The group explained that the agencies won the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Anger over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration wasn’t enough to prevent the Senate confirmation of a new deputy attorney general on Wednesday. Sally Yates, known for cracking down on crime in Georgia, was confirmed to the No. 2 position in the Justice Department with by a 84-12 vote in the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New Attorney General Loretta Lynch received her first big test after riots broke out in Baltimore this week. Lynch, the first black female attorney general, released a statement soon after violence broke out, examining what happened and “going beyond the criminal civil right investigations” launched last week by her predecessor Eric…
