httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlsTYpliUWQ WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST If TV Shows Can’t Pay For Blagojevich’s Second Trial (Washington Post) Chandra Levy Judge to Shield Jury Pool IDs (Washington Post) Black Water Reaches Settlement for $42 Million in Fines With U.S. (NY Times)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A notorious Russian arms dubbed the “merchant of death” will be extradited to the U.S. from Thailand, the Washington Post reported. A Court of Appeals court in Thailand overturned a lower court’s ruling rejecting the U.S. extradition request for Viktor Bout, the Post reported. The Associated Press reported that Bout cried…
By Alberto Gonzales Washington Post Op-ed Like most Americans, I am a descendant of immigrants and a grateful beneficiary of the opportunities available to our nation’s citizens. My grandparents emigrated from Mexico in the early 20th century seeking a better life, and they found it working in the fields and dairy farms of Texas. Diversity…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s no question it was a major embarrassment for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald when a Chicago jury on Tuesday convicted the over-chatty ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on only 1 of 24 counts — and that sole count did not even go to the meat of the case. But I have to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hunt for the last of three fugitives who escaped from an Arizona prison is over. The U.S. Marshals Service said John McCluskey and his accomplice Casslyn Welch were captured Thursday at a campsite in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona following a tip from a suspicious U.S. Forest Service…
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