By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Secret Service has triggered a Philadelphia Police Department probe into why one of its officers used his police car computer on Wednesday to run a criminal background check on President Obama, the Associated Press reported. The Secret Service notified the police department after learning of the breach from the…
VOTERS IN LOUISIANA, ON SATURDAY, KICKED OUT OF OFFICE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR WILLIAM JEFFERSON. YOU REMEMBER THIS GUY? REMEMBER THE GUY WHO WAS INDICTED LAST YEAR FOR HAVING $90,000 IN BRIBE MONEY, IN CASH, IN HIS FREEZER. WELL, THE VOTERS KICKED HIM OUT OF OFFICE. HOW IRONIC IS THAT? THE ONLY POLITICIAN IN WASHINGTON WHO ACTUALLY…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Congressional staffer Kenyen Brown is set to become the first black U.S. Attorney in Alabama history. President Obama nominated Brown Thursday to the office, which covers 13 counties. Brown currently serves as director of advice and education for the House Ethics committee. To read more go to the Mobile…
The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office should get credit for being this aggressive in investigating the police shootings of civilians in New Orleans. By Brendan McCarthy New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — Federal agents this week raided the office of the New Orleans Police Department homicide division, seizing the files and computer hard drives of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Benjamin Wagner, a federal prosecutor, has been nominated to become U.S. Attorney in Sacramento, the Sacramento Bee reported. Wagner, the chief of special prosecutions in the Sacramento U.S. Attorney’s Office, was nominated by President Obama Thursday. The Bee reported that Wagner as recommended by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
William Jefferson was already in financial straights before this. He bounced plenty checks and ran up credit cards. Now he and his family face some tough times ahead with the jury’s latest finding. By Bruce Alpert and Jonathan Tilove New Orleans Times-Picayune William Jefferson, the former Democratic congressman convicted of 11 of 16 counts of…
FBI Agent Debra Mack By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Debra Mack, the first African American female to head the FBI Mobile, Ala., office, is stepping down under a cloud of controversy. WKRG tv reports that Mack had been the subject of a two-year internal investigation involving a high ranking local politician. A source tells…
It has come down to this. John Edwards, once a viable candidate for president has fallen very far from grace. Now he’s got his former mistress going before a grand jury investigating his campaign finances. Maybe it’s just bad karma to get a $400 haircut during a campaign where you voice concern about poverty. By…
