By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Talk may be cheap, but for New York car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad, yapping to the feds, and doing so without a lawyer, could potentially pay off in the form of a lighter sentence, legal experts say. Just how much lighter is anyone’s guess, though clearly he’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — While I was a reporter at the Detroit News covering the federal courthouse in downtown Detroit, FBI agent Herman Groman left his mark. When the FBI ran a massive sting that netted a number of crooked local judges, Herman Groman was in thick of all of that. A few…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A white supremacist pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Toledo to mailing a hangman’s noose to the president of the Lima, Ohio chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Justice Department announced. Authorities said that white supremacist Daniel Lee Jones, 33, of Portland, Ore., admitted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Clad in blue jeans and a tan jacket, ex-N.Y. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik left his New Jersey home Monday to report to a federal minimum-security prison in Cumberland, Md., ABC News reported. Kerik, 54, who became a hero after the 9/11 attacks, began serving his four-year term on eight felony counts…
By Allan Lengel tickletehwire.com WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday announced plans to nominate FBI deputy director John Pistole — the number two man in the agency — to head up the Transportation Security Administration, which is responsible for the safety of the nation’s airport passengers. He becomes the third Presidential nominee for that position….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In response to a cry for help from the newly minted Mayor, the Justice Department announced Monday that it will conduct an evaluation of the New Orleans Police Department to figure out reforms for the troubled agency, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, attending a news conference…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A retired FBI agent well versed in interrogating spies and terrorists, says he wants FBI Director Robert Mueller III to speak up and defend the reading of Miranda Warnings to suspects, the website Spy Talk reported. Retired agent Joe Navarro said the Miranda Warning — giving suspects the right…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Is the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, Va., trying to run with the big dogs in New York in the area of securities fraud? A Wall Street Journal report gives a resounding Yes to that question. The paper’s Law Blog reports that U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride of Virginia “is…
