By Steve Mills and Jeff Coen Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors continue to investigate decades-old allegations that Chicago police routinely tortured murder suspects, focusing on a half-dozen detectives following the recent indictment of former Cmdr. Jon Burge, the alleged ringleader, sources said. Subpoenas served on the city show that prosecutors are looking at detectives…
Things are quickly changing at the Justice Department — quicker than expected. By Ari Shapiro NPR All Things Considered WASHINGTON — On Monday, the Justice Department undid a small part of the damage that top officials caused in a scandal of politicized hiring and firing during the Bush administration. The department rehired an attorney who…
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By Suzanne Smalley NEWSWEEK The image of a drug dealer driving a Mercedes is a Hollywood favorite, so maybe it’s not surprising that the African-American preacher, speaking on a panel about how to shut down urban drug markets, went for the cliché. It’s hard to get the dealers off the corners and into straight jobs,…
By Jerry Capeci Gangland News Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel is a stickler for the rule of law and proper courtroom decorum. Two weeks ago, the judge’s words, and common courtesy, failed the jurist miserably when he tweaked a federal prosecutor twice about his failure to stand up to address the court. Had the judge…
Message to Richard Leon Goyette: Lots more people loss lots more cash than you buddy. Next time get a Bernie Madoff punching bag to let out your aggressions. By JEFF CARLTON Associated Press DALLAS – A man apparently upset about losing more than $60,000 when the government took over a failed bank has been arrested…
Eric Holder Jr. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The newly minted Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. addressed Justice Department employees Tuesday morning and vowed to fight terrorism and improve the integrity of the department. “We must restore the credibility of this Department, which has been so badly shaken by allegations of improper political…
