By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was bad news for ex-FBI agent Adrian Busby of the New York Division. A federal jury in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday convicted Busby, 37, of lying to protect a married female confidential source he was having an affair with. “In roughly three hours, Adrian Busby was found guilty by…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A wave of prisoners could be released this week as a result of a change in sentencing for crack cocaine violations. The Associated Press reports that nearly 2,000 federal prisoners will be eligible for early release Tuesday as a result of a bill signed into law by President Obama last year that…
By Carrie Johnson NPR WASHINGTON — A top political appointee in the Obama Justice Department says he made a “mistake” when he didn’t flag questionable tactics used by federal agents in a gun-trafficking case for his superiors last year. Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, told NPR he found…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When Hasan M. Elahi landed in Detroit, Mich., and walked into the country on June 19, 2002, a customs official asked that Elahi follow him to an Immigration and Naturalization Services office at the airport. That incident initiated a period of “questioning went on for the next six months and ended…
