YouTube is normally considered a great venue for entertainment. In this case, it cost a university student his freedom. By MITCH STACY Associated Press Writer TAMPA, Fla. — An Egyptian student attending a Florida university was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for making a YouTube video showing would-be terrorists how to turn a…
There’s bad news in lawsuits. And then there’s really bad news. The Secret Service just got the really bad news. By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the U.S. Secret Service “made a mockery” of long-standing rules by failing to preserve, concealing and even destroying…
A legendary newspaper source, his identity became the subject of speculation for decades. By Patricia Sullivan and Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as “Deep Throat,” became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died…
This comes under the category of “not good publicity for the bureau.” By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Taxpayers were billed an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay for each FBI agent temporarily posted to Iraq over the course of four years, according to a new Justice Department report. In…
By The Wall Street Journal Washington Wire The timing of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s arrest wasn’t affected by a Chicago Tribune story that reported Blagojevich was being secretly recorded as part of a political corruption investigation, a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman said. The Dec. 9 arrest, the spokesman said, had been planned before the…
With the arrival of a new administration in Washington will come a hoard of new faces at the top of nearly every department and agency. Nowhere is this event viewed with more consternation than among the working stiffs in the 93 U. S. Attorneys’ Offices. And I can only assume that something similar occurs in…
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He may not be one of kind, but he’s the last of a kind. Cigar chomping, Notre Dame fan, Corbett was a fixture in Detroit in the fight against the mob. By David Ashenfelter Detroit Free Press DETROIT — The federal prosecutor who helped break the Detroit Mafia is calling it quits. Keith Corbett, 59,…
