Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com columnist This fall someone near and dear to me began a job tutoring and counseling students at an inner-city Detroit high school. Her…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If ever there was a major city that can’t afford corrupt public officials it would be Detroit, a place that is aching from the economic woes of our time. That being said: How can anyone cheat the city? Ask ex-Detroit Deputy Mayor Kandia Milton. He stepped up before a federal judge…
Ellen Howe served as Assistant Administrator for Strategic Communications & Public Affairs at the Transportation Security Administration from March 2006 until January 2009. By Ellen Howe Security DeBrief Certainly the posting of the Transportation Security Administration’s screening procedures on the Internet was not the agency’s finest hour, but it was not the worst breach of…
John “Junior” Gotti/youtube photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Gotti Jr., who walked free after his fourth mistrial on racketeering charges, is “optimistic” the feds won’t try for a fifth trial, the website Gang Land News reports. The website, written by former New York Daily News mob writer Jerry Capeci, noted that Gotti could get…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Five Transportation Security Administration employees have been placed on administrative leave in response to news that a 93-page confidential document on airport passenger screening was posted on the Internet, the agency said. Assistant Homeland Security secretary David Heyman told senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that a full investigation into…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III was in Chicago on Wednesday where he was briefed on a terror case involving the 2008 deadly attacks in Mumbai, the Chicago Tribune reported. Mueller reportedly was told details of the case involving David Coleman Headley, who is charged with plotting to attack a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. showed up in New York on Wednesday, not for a Broadway play, but to inspect how a real live drama will play out in the Big Apple. The Associated Press reported that Holder arrived unannounced to inspect a jail and a Manhattan courthouse where suspected 9/11…
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