This is a good good initiative. We just need more of these because the violent Mexican drug cartels aren’t going away, not so long as business remains brisk. By Juan A. Lozano Associated Press Writer HOUSTON- A four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has helped law…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON— Ok, here’s another reason to stay in shape and stop hiding behind those baggy clothes. More airport screeners are about to acquire Superman powers. USA Today reports that Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 security machines at airport checkpoints that will let screeners peek under passengers’ clothes….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The person who posted a poll on the ever-popular Facebook social network last week asking whether President Obama should be assassinated is a kid. Bloomberg news reports that the Secret Service determined that the juvenile doesn’t pose a threat. The news service, attributing the information to Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan,…
Anytime a judge gets busted for taking a bribe it reminds us how vulnerable the legal system is. It also makes us wonder about other judges. By Chris Kirkham New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — A longtime St. Bernard Parish judge who handled some of the parish’s most high-profile civil lawsuits pleaded guilty Thursday in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If only this were our biggest crime problem in America. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the FBI seized “a well-traveled forgery of a 1939 Andrew Wyeth watercolor, the fourth such counterfeit painting to surface since the artist’s death in January.” Art fraud is a multi-billion dollar industry. The paper reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the gambling world there are lucky days and not so lucky days. Thursday was a “not so lucky day” for suspected members and associates of the Luchese crime family in New York who were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of running an illegal gambling, sports betting and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a ruling Thursday saying the government has to release a substantial portion of an FBI interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney tied to the probe into the leak identifying CIA operative Valerie Plame. Both the Bush and Obama administrations wanted to keep the 2004…
George Torres/la city beat photo By Jeffrey Anderson For ticklethewire.com The defense lawyer for accused racketeer George Torres smelled blood. Torres, a self-made grocery store magnate and suspected drug kingpin, who was both feared and revered in the barrios of South Los Angeles, was on trial in federal court. Prosecution witnesses were lined up waiting…
