Counterfeit money is an age old problem. But the flood of fake bills coming from Peru is raising some red flags and the U.S. Secret Service is responding. By Josh Meyer Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — A Flood of high-quality counterfeit U.S. money from Peru is perplexing federal authorities, who say the shadowy networks that…
Anything with a historic link to the Kennedys is bound to draw some public attention. But it’s not often that the FBI has had to step in. Here’s an interesting caper. By SCOTT K. PARKS The Dallas Morning News DALLAS — An intimate moment between two of the world’s most famous widows is now the…
BY MARK J. KONKOL, NATASHA KORECKI AND ART GOLAB Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — The man federal prosecutors pressured to cooperate in the corruption probe of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich died of an apparent aspirin overdose on Saturday, law enforcement sources said. Christopher Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A different kind of payday is coming for Shakila Nakia Wallace — and it may be in the form of a prison sentence. Wallace, 25, a former office automation clerk in the U.S. Attorney’s financial litigation unit in Philadelphia, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to using personal identification info…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kansas City Acting U.S. Attorney Matt J. Whitworth has been named a U.S. Magistrate Judge, the U.S. District Court in Western Missouri announced. Whitworth, who became acting U.S. Attorney on March 1, has been a federal prosecutor in the Kansas City office since 1988. He is a 1983 graduate of the…
