By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ok, so it’s an election year where both sides in the presidential race have been endlessly accusing one another of lying. Perhaps, having been out of the game for a while, former Congressman Gary Condit, a blue dog Democrat from California, feels left out and has the itch to lie, too….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what comes as a big surprise, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington on Thursday announced it was dropping murder charges against Ingmar Guandique, the man who was convicted in the 2001 killing of Washington intern Chandra Levy, the Washington Post reports. Guandique had been convicted in the murder in 2010, but…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It hardly comes as a surprise that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking a judge to sentence Chandra Levy’s killer to life in prison without parole. The Washington Post reports that the prosecutors, in asking for a life sentence, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that convicted killer…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The nine-year march down a tortuous path toward justice for the Chandra Levy family, prosecutors and investigators came down to final arguments today in D.C. Superior Court in the murder trial of an illegal immigrant. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Haines, armed with no physical evidence to speak…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-California congressman Gary A. Condit,graying and looking far less youthful than he did nine years ago, took the witness stand Monday in D.C. Superior Court in the murder trial of Chandra Levy and refused to discuss his relationship with the slain intern. The Washington Post reports that he was…
Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, covered the first two years of the Chandra Levy investigation for the Washington Post. By Allan Lengel For AOL News In a law office in an upscale section of Los Angeles, an unfinished yet potentially explosive book manuscript by a controversial figure, former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, sits in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Investigators wrote letters to the accused murderer of intern Chandra Levy, posing as a woman, hoping to get a confession, the Washington Post reported. They never got a confession. Still, the defense team raised the issue Thursday in a pretrial hearing in D.C. Superior Court, and unsuccessfully tried to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The polygraph issue is a messy one. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking that the judge in the upcoming Chandra Levy murder on Oct. 18 block two polygraph exams from being introduced into evidence, the Washington Post reports. A major problem, prosecutors contend, was that the polygraph exams weren’t…
