By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds on Thursday came down on one current and three former Chicago cops — all members of a now disbanded elite-city wide unit — implicating them in an out-of-control flurry of activity that involved false arrests, false charges and the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug dealers….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The modern day pirates continue to baffle the world in their ability to commandeer large ships and get away with it. Still, not all have gone free. On Thursday, Jama Idle Ibrahim, a/k/a Jaamac Ciidle, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Washington to 25 years in prison for his role…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Hate never seems to go out of style. A federal grand jury in Arkansas indicted five state residents for their alleged role in the Molotov cocktail fire bombing of a mixed-race couple’s trailer near Hardy, Ark. in January, authorities announced Thursday. No one was injured. Those indicted on civil rights and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF agent Clifford Dean Posey finds himself in big big trouble. A grand jury in Virginia charged Posey with 20 counts that included allegations that he stole guns and cigarettes from ATF and sold them, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday, the day indictment was unsealed. Authorities alleged that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — So much for secure security clearances. Catherine G. Webb, 47, who worked as Special Agent of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty Wednesday in Washington federal court to falsifying work on background investigations for agencies trying to determine if people were fit for jobs that would…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The prospect of a government shutdown over the budget is causing some unease at the Justice Department, which includes the FBI, DEA and ATF. “Should it become necessary to implement our contingency plans, you will receive notice from your manager no later than Friday April 8th regarding the designation…
By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON –By mid-March, as the government tells it, Matthew H. Kluger knew the FBI was closing in. As a lawyer for three of the nation’s premier corporate law firms, most recently in the Washington office of Wilson Sonsini, he had allegedly stolen secrets that yielded tens of…
