By Allan Lengel For Sphere (a new AOL News Site) Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner of New York City whose meteoric rise to the national spotlight was matched only by his even faster fall, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to eight felony counts that included lying to the White House and tax crimes….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, the New York racketeering trial of mobster John Gotti Jr. has been flush with drama. On Wednesday, after the judge dismissed two jurors who weren’t getting along, Gotti’s mother loudly voiced her opinion from the gallery, not far from where her son sat. “They’re railroading you!” Victoria Gotti shouted,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-DEA agent Richard Horn may have lost his privacy, but he’s a lot richer as a result. The U.S. government has agreed to pay him $3 million to settle a lawsuit in Washington in which Horn alleged that the CIA and a U.S. diplomat spied on him and illegally wiretapped his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More details are emerging about a potential scandal at the FBI’s Washington field office centering around a test. Sources familiar with situation say the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has launched an internal investigation focusing on allegations that three high ranking agents not only worked together on a mandatory FBI test…
Ulrich Boser, editor of the website The Open Case, could be in for some interesting reading if the FBI doesn’t redact too much. By Ulrich Boser The Open Case What does the FBI have on Ted Kennedy? A lot, apparently. I filed a FOIA to get any documents related to the lion of the Senate…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds say the the build up of agents along the border is paying off. Authorities say there’s been a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border, the Associated Press reported. Specifically, agents seized about 600 illegal weapons at the border from March through September, an increase…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The potential to snare more bad guys in the Bernie Madoff scam is growing. Madoff’s accountant David Friehling pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday to nine criminal charges, and has agreed to cooperate with the feds. That could mean more indictments. Friehling told U.S. District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Note to Dana Christian Welch: Next time play a Nintendo game instead. Welch, 38, of Orange County, Calif., was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to 2 1/2 years in prison for aiming a handheld laser at two Boeing commercial jets preparing to land at John Wayne Airport…
