By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s not everyday, within the confines of a five-page court filing, that a defense attorney gets to cram in the names Tony Soprano, President Obama and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But Sam Adams, who represents the fiesty ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, did just that the other day in a response to a…
No invite from Cruise/paramount pictures photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Don’t expect to see Brian Thomas Mettenbrink at the next red carpet event for Scientologists Tom Cruise or John Travolta. Menttenbrink, 20, of Grand Island, Nebraska, pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles federal court to participating in a ploy to shut down the Church of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suburban Detroit man charged with lying about his ties to a Hamas-linked charity, the Holly Land Foundation, is a well-known singer in the Muslim world, the Detroit Free Press reported. The paper reported that Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka, 47, of Farmington Hills, Mich., who is also known as Abu Ratib,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Detroit– an economically ailing city where routine services are stretched thin, and jobs, like a Detroit Lions victory, are tough to come by — citizens are witnessing another sad chapter in federal court involving public corruption. This times it’s the very talkative and controversial political consultant Sam Riddle, whose trial…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The other shoe dropped Monday in the gun drama involving suspended Washington Wizards’ star Gilbert Arenas. The other figure in the scandal, Wizards player Jarvaris Crittenton, 21, who has been injured all year, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession of an unregistered Firearm and was sentenced to…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — All U.S. mail — about a billion pieces every 36 hours — passes through a sophisticated biohazard detection system at about 270 processing centers around the country. The U.S. Postal Service says no item with anthrax or any other dangerous substance has passed through the screening since…
The ongoing debate over how much rights suspected terrorist get needs some clarification. There’s no simple answer, but we also can’t ignore our Constitution and what America stands for when it comes to a fair and just legal system. By Chisun Lee ProPublica Three judges on the federal trial court hearing challenges brought by Guantanamo…
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