It sounds like something the FBI needed to check out. But is it anything earth shattering? Who knows? Sen. Schumer described it as preventative move. By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and KAREN ZRAICK New York Times WASHINGTON – At least two apartments in Queens were raided on Monday after they had been visited in the last week…
Sometimes it’s just a good day for finding terrorists. This one is an impressive hit. By LUIS MARTINEZ, KIRIT RADIA, DANA HUGHES, and JASON RYAN ABC NEWS A U.S. commando attack in Somalia has killed an al Qaeda operative who is on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, sources tell ABC News. The dead…
By Allan Lengel and Rachel Leven ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – As Mark T. Rossini sat at the defendant’s table in the D.C. federal courthouse in May awaiting his fate, you couldn’t help but wonder, if only for a moment, if he saw himself as a tragic figure in a fabled Hollywood film: Dapper, veteran FBI agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey says in a court filing that the government has made a mistake by indicting his client Thomas Raffanello, the former head of the Miami Drug Enforcement Administration, in a banking scandal involving Allen Stanford, according to the Daily Business Review. Raffanello, the chief security officer for the…
This is a darn interesting case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts has dismissed marijuana charges against author and writer Andrew Sullivan, saying it could have impacted his immigration status. The Magistrate Judge raised some objections to the dismissal. The prosecutor essentially told the judge it was none of his business whether the prosecution chose…
