For pilgrims, this will matter less than the small shop nearby at 5 St Matthews Street. Now the Webb Ellis Rugby Football Museum, this is where shoemaker William Gilbert began making leather footballs for the school around 1842. The evolution of the ball from a hand stitched, leather covered inflated pigs bladder, is well documented….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former leader of the Tijuana Cartel/Arellano-Felix Organization was sentenced Monday in San Diego fed court to 25 years in prison, the DEA announced. Benjamin Arellano-Felix, nearly 60, was also ordered to forfeit $100 million in criminal proceeds. “The Tijuana Cartel was one of the world’s most brutal drug trafficking networks,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA has a problem: It needs more permanently assigned leaders. The New York Post reports that more than one-third of the DEA’s 21 divisions don’t have permanently assigned special agents in charge. The Post points out that the New York division is finally getting a chief, James Kasson, more than…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With just seven months to go until election time, President Obama is filling the final U.S. Attorney vacancies around the country. In a White House press release issued late last week, the president announced the nominations of Patrick A. Miles, Jr. for the Western District of Michigan in Grand Rapids and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What’s $500 million for a corporate behemoth like Google? Maybe a drop in the bucket, but for the government it’s a nice piece of change. Rhode Island U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha plans to discuss at a press conference Monday afternoon how the money paid out to the Justice Department will be…
By Douglas B. Brill The Express-Time The Barry Lee Bush that Joseph Douress remembers isn’t the FBI agent who investigated gangs in Newark and the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya. Douress remembers a friend who would sit on a floor and stuff envelopes with invitations for a charity golf tournament, a neighbor who would plop…
