By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mayor Richard Daley’s ex-Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez and a co-defendant caught a big break Tuesday when a federal judge overturned their public corruption convictions and ordered a new trial because the government failed to reveal the extensive criminal record and gang ties of a key witness, the Chicago Tribune…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.como The labor intensive effort to fill all the U.S. Attorney spots around the country continued Tuesday with President Barack Obama nominating defense lawyer William Nettles for U.S. Attorney in South Carolina, Main Justice news website reported. Main Justice reported that Nettles of the law firm Sanders & Nettles in Columbia, S.C.,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ho Ho Ho? What’s a Christmas season without some guy dressing up just like Santa and robbing a bank? On Tuesday, a Santa with gun in tow, robbed the SunTrust Bank at 4809 Old Hickory Boulevard in Hermitage, Tenn., according to the Tennessean newspaper. The paper reported that the guy then…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The brother of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich isn’t happy –not at all. Brother Robert Blagojevich, who faces criminal charges himself in connection with the public corruption case against his brother, is asking a Chicago federal judge to keep private 208 phone calls he claims the FBI wrongly intercepted, according to a…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The Inept Criminal is by now a well-established and extensively chronicled archetype, with whole Web sites devoted to the misadventures of dumb, stupid and just plain crazy law-breakers. But law enforcement has its own share of bunglers, and Sphere believes they deserve attention, too. Herewith, a sampling…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The ugly — and only getting uglier — side of the drug war in Mexico reared its head Tuesday. The Los Angeles Times reported that gunmen killed at least three relatives of a Mexican special forces sailor, Melquisedec Angulo Córdova. The sailor died in a raid last week that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Muslim community in the Detroit area is raising questions about a delay in the release of a medical examiner’s report on the death of an Imam, who was shot and killed by the FBI on Oct. 28, the Detroit News is reporting. “The unfortunate and perhaps unintended consequence is that…
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS By Larry McShane New York Daily News The FBI investigated Michael Jackson in a pair of child molestation cases 11 years apart – with neither ever going to trial, according to explosive new documents made public Tuesday. The first case dated to September 1993, when the FBI’s Los Angeles field office…
