By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com NASCAR is often associated with the roar of the crowd and the smell of burning rubber. In Los Angeles, it may be associated with the roar of angry investors and the smell of a scandalous investment. Federal authorities in Los Angeles charged Eliott Jay Dresher, 63, of Chatsworth, Calif., with allegedly…
Karen Loeffler/jason kohler-ktuu-tv By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Karen Loeffler officially became Alaska’s first female U.S. Attorney on Friday. Loeffler was sworn in at a ceremony in the U.S. District Courthouse in Anchorage, KTUU-tv reported. Former U.S. Attorney Robert Bundy administered the oath to Loeffler and described her as a brilliant attorney and state shooter, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It may not be the menacing Swine Flu, but this virus could cause you some pain. The FBI has issued a consumer warning regarding a pop-up security message on the Internet. “The messages may contain a virus that could harm your computer, cause costly repairs or, even worse, lead…
Former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, FBI Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) Joseph Demarest Devorah Halberstam and the Honorable Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York. Photo credit: Matthew Coleman, FBI By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Devorah Halberstam, whose son was killed in a terrorist attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, was honored last week…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Before a Sunday church crowd of more than 400 people in Long Island , Atty. General Eric Holder Jr. advocated a “spiritual awakening” among African Americans, saying the community needs to confront violence and other social ills that disproportionately impact blacks, Newsday reported. Holder, a native of Queens, honed in on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Bernie Madoff brand is wearing thin. The Regis College in Weston, Mass., held an auction on Sunday and sold four of Madoff’s belongings for a total of $2,025, the Boston Globe reported. The paper reported that most bidders could have cared less who had owned the items; they simply wanted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities at Kennedy Airport three years ago stumbled across a little surprise while inspecting shipments from Africa: a package containing monkey meat. On Friday, a federal judge in Brooklyn gave Staten Island resident Mamie Manneh, a native of Liberia, probation for illegally importing the meat that can carry numerous infectious diseases…
