By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– The case of the smashed up $750,000 Ferrari simply won’t go away for the FBI and the Justice Department. Reporter Ed White of the Associated Press reports that a Southfield, Mi. insurance firm, which is suing the feds to recover money from the crash, is wondering about the suspicious…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We’re supposed to learn something from Congressional hearings. I’m not sure we learned all that much on Monday when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, held a hearing with legal experts to determine what the committee can demand from ATF and the Justice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Certainly this comes as no surprise. A Congressional report released Monday concludes that American military-style weapons are arming Mexico’s violent drug organizations at an alarming rate and policy makers are not adequately responding. “Congress has been virtually moribund while powerful Mexican drug trafficking organizations continue to gain unfettered access to military-style…
Irene Foley is the mother of FBI agent Theresa Foley, the first full-time female FBI agent to be stationed at Guantanamo. Theresa Foley has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department, saying she was made to bunk with vermin that gave her a tropical disease. Theresa Foley has undergone multiple surgeries since contracting the disease…
By Jerry Markon The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s decision to charge former presidential candidate John Edwards with campaign finance violations drew criticism from legal experts, including some former prosecutors, that the case was too aggressive. In the months before the indictment, the Justice Department took flak from government watchdogs for dropping corruption…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He escaped the long reach of the U.S. for 13 years. He was on the FBI’s Top Ten Terrorist List. And there was a $5 million reward for his capture. Last week, a bullet ended all of that. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the organizer of the 1998 terrorist bombings in Kenya and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Family loyalty may be good in most instances, but apparently not in this one. Federal authorities last week charged three relatives with lying for Weldon Gordon, 33, a suburban D.C. man accused of killing an undercover DEA informant Andre Hayes in 2008, the D.C. Examiner reported. The relatives, who were arrested…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales is cashing in on his name. The Texas company Drexel Metals Inc., a provider of standing seam metal roofing systems, announced Monday that Gonzales has joined its board of directors. “I have enjoyed working with Al while he served as a valuable consultant that helped Drexel Metals…
