December 24, 2009
Criminals Who Alter Face and Fingerprints Don’t Always Have Luck
By Allan Lengel For AOl News WASHINGTON — Plastic surgery is not just for the vain at heart. Recent cases show that criminals still use flesh-altering procedures to try to dodge the law. But it doesn’t always help. Just in the past two weeks, drug traffickers from Detroit and Phoenix whose fingerprints had been surgically…
Pres. Obama Nominates 7 U.S. Attorneys; Senate Confirms 7 Others
D.C. nominee Ronald Machen By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The burden of filling U.S. Attorney posts around the country just got a little lighter. The White House announced Thursday that President Obama had nominated seven U.S. Attorneys including Ron Machen for D.C. and Sally Quillian Yates for the Northern District of Georgia. And the…
Retired ATF Official Bernie La Forest Authors Crime Novel
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Bernie La Forest had a rich career with ATF. He headed up offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles and saw plenty guns, drugs, killers, con men and intrigue. But one reality he learned over the years was that law enforcement agencies didn’t always get along. It…
Washington Post Reader Defends Secret Service Dir. Mark Sullivan After Party Crashing Incident
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has taken his share of lumps over the party crashing incident at the White House involving the now famous Salahis. In fact, some observers say he looked worn out when he recently went before Congress to testify on the matter and took blame…
Book Says Osama bin Laden Plotted to Kill Pres. Clinton in the Philippines in 1996
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –The U.S. Secret Service averted, at the last minute, a potential assassination attempt by Osama bin Laden on President Clinton in 1996 in the Philippines, according to a new book. The London Telegraph reported on the matter, attributing the information to a book “The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs…
Retired Secret Service Agent James Parker Who Guarded Pres. Ford During 2 Assassination Attempts Dies at Age 70
Parker Protected Pres. Ford/pres. library photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James L. “Lee” Parker, a 34-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service, who worked on presidential details including ones where attempts were made on President Ford’s life, died last month in Virginia at age 70, the Washington Post reported. The paper reported that…
Update on America’s 2 Wealthy Jailbirds — Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– And now for a prison update on two of America’s most notable financial schemers. Bloomberg news reports that Bernie Madoff, 71, has been transferred from the medium-security facility at the Butner Correctional Complex in North Carolina to the prison’s medical center. Prison authorities confirmed that the move happened on…