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February 14, 2011

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Column: Justice Dept. May Not Have Served Up Justice Following Mob Hit

allan14 years ago12 years ago06 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I have mixed feelings about a  ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. The court rescinded an $8.5 million judgment handed down two years ago against the government in the 1982 murders of two people by James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston mobster who was an FBI…

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DEA Sting Nets 7 Charged With Supporting Taliban

allan14 years ago14 years ago01 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA sting resulted in authorities charging a group of people with plotting to move large shipments of drugs and weapons for the Taliban, authorities announced Monday. In court documents unsealed in New York, authorities charged seven people with conspiring to provide “various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom…

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More Charges Come Raining Down on Ex-D.C. Suburban County Exec Jack Johnson

allan14 years ago12 years ago02 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jack Johnson, who in his final weeks as a county executive in suburban Washington got busted on a wiretap advising his wife to hide evidence as FBI agents knocked on the door, was indicted Monday on charges of conspiracy, extortion, tampering with a witness and evidence and taking more…

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Opera Pokes Fun at Ex-Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales

allan14 years ago14 years ago02 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Washington can be a way too serious place. Then occasionally someone comes along and figures out how to turn all the manure into entertainment. Over the past two weekends people have flocked to the Baltimore Theater Project to see “The Gonzales Cantata”, an opera by composer Melissa Dunphy who…

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Congressman Opposes Plan to Name Museum Research Center After J. Edgar Hoover

allan14 years ago12 years ago03 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s legendary director J. Edgar Hoover continues to stir up controversy. The latest: the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) is voicing opposition to a plan to name the research center at the yet to be built National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington…

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