By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The Inept Criminal is by now a well-established and extensively chronicled archetype, with whole Web sites devoted to the misadventures of dumb, stupid and just plain crazy law-breakers. But law enforcement has its own share of bunglers, and Sphere believes they deserve attention, too. Herewith, a sampling…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The ugly — and only getting uglier — side of the drug war in Mexico reared its head Tuesday. The Los Angeles Times reported that gunmen killed at least three relatives of a Mexican special forces sailor, Melquisedec Angulo Córdova. The sailor died in a raid last week that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Muslim community in the Detroit area is raising questions about a delay in the release of a medical examiner’s report on the death of an Imam, who was shot and killed by the FBI on Oct. 28, the Detroit News is reporting. “The unfortunate and perhaps unintended consequence is that…
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS By Larry McShane New York Daily News The FBI investigated Michael Jackson in a pair of child molestation cases 11 years apart – with neither ever going to trial, according to explosive new documents made public Tuesday. The first case dated to September 1993, when the FBI’s Los Angeles field office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Simply put, it wasn’t kosher — not even close. Naftali Tzi Weisz, 61, the grand rabbi of Spinka, a religious Jewish orthodox group, was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to two years in prison for orchestrating a tax-cheat scheme prosecutors called “an astonishingly complex and sinister enterprise.” Authorities say the Brooklyn…
Ex-Prosecutor Convertino By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Detroit assistant U.S. Attorney doesn’t have to provide his emails in a controversial lawsuit involving a former colleague who is suing the Justice Department over leaks to the Detroit Free Press. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Washington ruled earlier this month that former federal…
