httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4dk7hIQtI WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Lawyers for Hedge Fund Billionaire Wants FBI Wiretaps Tossed (NY Times) FBI Busts Suspected Pimp In Lawrence Taylor Case (Asheville Citizen-Times) FBI Team Arrives in Pakistan (Washington Post) A Quiet Night Until Agents Saw Faisal Shahzad’s Name On the List (LA Times) NY Cigarette Dealer Gets 10 Years in Fed…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a highly unusual move, the chief of Pretrial Services in Detroit filed an affidavit with the 6th Court of Appeals correcting claims by the federal prosecutor in the Hutaree Christian militia case, the Detroit Free Press reported. At the center of the dispute is Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Waterstreet, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama is expected to name Justice Department Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, reporter Mike Allen of Politico is reporting. “The pick isn’t official, but top White House aides will be shocked if it’s otherwise,” Allen wrote.”Kagan’s relative youth (50) is a huge asset for the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-ATF agent from Tulsa, Ok., pleaded guilty Thursday to drug trafficking. He also admitted conspiring to fabricate a drug buy in 2007 that wrongfully sent a father and daughter to federal prison. Ex-ATF agent Brandon J. McFadden, 34, who left the agency last year, pleaded guilty to distributing more than…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Saudi citizen residing in Texas was hit with a prison sentence of 4 years and 3 months in Houston on Thursday for selling counterfeit computer parts to the military in Iraq that “could have put our men and woman in uniform at risk”, said U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno. Authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Court of Appeals could rule as early as Friday whether to overturn or uphold a Detroit federal judge’s order to release nine members of the Hutaree Christian militia on bond pending trial. They are charged with plotting to kill cops to foment revolt against the government. The Detroit News…
Back in 2001, when I was a reporter for the Washington Post, I started working on a story about a missing intern named Chandra Levy. For a while, I worked day and night, and even went to California for three weeks to work on the story. Then came Sept. 11, 2001, and the story vanished,…
