By Allan Lengel For AOL News About three years ago, Los Angeles art dealer Tatiana Khan sold a 1902 pastel by Pablo Picasso for $2 million. She told the buyer it had come from the family of famed publisher Malcolm Forbes and was in fact worth far more. Only problem was the painting was a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former CIA station chief in Algiers was arrested Monday at a Norfolk, Va. hotel after failing to show up for a hearing last week in U.S. District Court in Washington where he faces charges of sexually assaulting a woman while stationed overseas, the website Spy Talk reported. U.S. Marshals, Diplomatic…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A former Osama bin Laden associate is saying that bin Laden had no clue the U.S. would strike back as ferociously as it has since Sept. 11, 2001, WTOP radio in Washington reported. In what was billed as an exclusive interview, the radio station reported that Noman Benotman, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Philly police detective working an FBI drug task force was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for tipping off a drug kingpin about a raid in 2005, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage in Philadelphia sentenced ex-officer Rickie Durham, 44, to the two years, rejecting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire Sidney Smith, a World War II vet and Nixon-appointed U.S. Attorney in Idaho, died on April 23 at the age of 95, The Associated Press reported. Born in the Midwest, he graduated from the University of Colorado law school, AP reported. In 1970, President Nixon appointed him deputy general counsel for…
