May 2010
Senate Confirms U.S. Attorneys in Calif. and Louisiana
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Stephanie Finley for the U.S. Attorney post for the Western District of Louisiana and Laura Duffy for the top federal prosecutor post in the Southern District of California. Duffy had been recommended by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the San Diego Union reported. The website Main…
Man Whose Wife Fatally Shot Pitts. FBI Agent Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Robert Korbe, the man whose wife shot Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008 while Hicks was serving an arrest warrant, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking charges, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. U.S. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry will sentence Korbe in September, the…
President Obama Nominates U.S. Attys. for W. Va. and Wisconsin
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama continued to press forward Thursday in his effort to put his appointees in key jobs by nominating U.S. Attorneys for West Virginia and Wisconsin. The President nominated William J. Ihlenfeld, II, for the U.S. Attorney post in the Northern District of West Virginia and John William Vaudreuil…
Dentistry Was Never So Exciting: FBI Turns to Dentists For Help Capturing Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Suddenly dentistry — a world of crowns and implants and root canals — has never been so exciting. The FBI is asking the dental community across the country to help capture James “Whitey Bulger”, a violent Boston mobster, who ranks among the FBI’s Top 10 fugitive alongside notables like Osama bin…
FBI and LAPD Investigate Video Sent to Oprah Winfrey
By Allan Lengel For AOL News “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which has been soliciting videos in search of the next big star, got one that prompted the program’s security to contact the FBI, law enforcement sources said. The video was of a man who had a Mac 10 machine gun in tow and was making…
Late Sen. Helms Offered to Help FBI as TV Executive
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The late Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina was a broadcast executive before becoming a senator and “offered the facilities of his station to assist the FBI at any time,” according to a 1971 FBI memo, the Raleigh News Observer reported. “He is a great admirer of the Director [J. Edgar…
NY Feds Charge Ken Starr With Fraud (No, Not That Ken Starr)
Not This Kenneth Starr/baylor u photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com So what would ex-President Bill Clinton say if he heard that Kenneth Starr had just been busted for fraud by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in N.Y.? Well, probably not much considering the Kenneth Starr arrested Thursday morning is an investment counselor to the stars who…