No question Stewart D. Nozette was a smart scientist. But a smart criminal? He pleaded guilty in January to overbilling NASA. You’d think once you’re on the government’s radar you’d avoid — or least be careful — about doing foolish things. You’d think. By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Stewart D….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In New Jersey, a landscape flush with plenty corruption, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie entered the gubernatorial race as a crime buster out to rescue the state. But in the past few months, his Democratic opponent Jon Corzine and the media have done plenty to try and tarnish that image, accusing…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBxsJwLyL10 *Story First Aired in 2008 on 60 Minutes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, the tough American G-Man , is going Italian — all the way. In a ceremony at the Italian Embassy in Washington, Freeh was given Italian citizenship, according to the embassy website. Freeh, who headed the FBI for eight years, “acquired his Italian citizenship in…
The Inspector General report simply confirms what’s already been reported and spoken of between agencies. In D.C., there clearly have been turf battles between ATF and the FBI. One of those incidents occurred in 2003 when a North Carolina man with tractor threatened to set off explosives on the Mall in Washington. And that wasn’t…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan of Pittsburgh, a Bush appointee who is expected to be replaced by an Obama appointee, can’t seem to avoid controversy. And this time, it may not be her fault. In the latest incident, the Associated Press reports that the Pittsburgh federal defenders office is alleging that…
From the FBI Website Two cars traveled down a country road towards the Conkle farm, two miles south of a small town named Clarkson on the eastern edge of Ohio. It was 4:10 on the afternoon of October 22, 1934, and history was about to unfold. In one car were four Bureau agents, led by…
