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…
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…
