By Allan Lengel For Sphere.com (A new AOL news site) In a move that came as little surprise, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday afternoon that it won’t go for a fifth trial to try and put New York mobster John Gotti Jr. behind bars. The other four resulted in mistrials after jurors deadlocked. “In…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The actions of the Nigerian underwear bomber who tried blowing up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas day is triggering a reaction back in the man’s homeland. Reuters news service is reporting that a Nigerian federal minister said his government will soon allow U.S. trained air marshals aboard Nigerian flights…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The appointments of new U.S. Attorneys around the country continues to move at a snail’s pace. The Houston Chronicle reports that about a third of the 93 U.S. Attorney posts around the country have been filled since President Obama took office a year ago and “and no one’s even…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It appears the man who helped prosecute the so called 20th hijacker on Sept. 11 — Zacarias Moussaoui — could get another bite out of the 9/11 apple in the Big Apple. The New York Times is reporting that assistant U.S. Attorney David Raskin of the Manhattan office is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA is hailing the latest capture of a major Mexican drug lord, who was known to boil the body parts of his rivals in lye. Mexican authorities on Tuesday captured drug lord Teodor Eduardo Garcia Simental just south of the California border, the New York Times reported. ”This…
David Copperfield/photo from website By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years after a former Miss Washington USA claimed she was raped by magician David Copperfield, the case is vanishing, People magazine is reporting. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington state indicated in court papers, without explanation, that it had terminated the grand jury probe into…
