By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York tabloids are having a blast with a jury dispute in the federal trial of mobster John Gotti Jr. One juror wrote a note to the judge voicing concern about a fellow loud mouth juror. “There’s more infighting on the Gotti jury than at a gangland sitdown – and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One of the top Mafia dons in Japan donated $1 million to a California medical center and cut a deal to provide info to the FBI to get a special visa to come to America and to get moved up on the list to receive a liver transplant, 60 Minutes reported…
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It sounds like a coverup. Or is it? Should we believe Cheney, the wily VP, who has been an outspoken critic of the Obama Administration? Mmmm. I’m sure plenty people have opinions on whether he’s being on the up and up. By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Former vice president Richard B. Cheney told…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest evidence that, Yes, the Securities and Exchange Commission was totally inept when it came to investigating Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff comes from Madoff himself. In a transcript of a jailhouse interview released by the SEC’s Inspector General on Friday, Madoff says of detecting a Ponzi scheme: “Yes, it’s very…
Gov. Jon S. Corzine/campaign photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Slinging mud right til the end, New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Jon S. Corzine told the New York Times he regretted supporting the nomination of Christopher S. Christie for U.S. Attorney back in 2001. “New information, new conclusion,” Corzine told the Times about Christie, his Republican challenger…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI dog “Freddy”, a Belgian Malinois, may not get a 21 gun salute, but he will get a memorial, his name will be added to a memorial wall and he will be buried in Quantico, Va., an FBI press release said, according to the Detroit Free Press. Freddy was shot and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Burbank, Calif., cop who was under FBI investigation as part a wide-sweeping probe into his department’s use of excessive force, shot himself to death Thursday at the corner of a residential street in Burbank, the Burbank Leader reported. The publication reported that witnesses saw Sgt. Neil Thomas Gunn Sr., 50,…
