By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The retrial next week in Brooklyn of right wing web radio talk show host Hal Turner should get interesting. The National Journal reports that federal prosecutors plan this time to call as witnesses three Court of Appeals judges from the 7th Circuit in Chicago who were the targets of Turner’s venemous…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, regarded as the gold standard for U.S. Attorneys, plans to personally prosecute two men accused of being part of the 2008 bombings in Mumbai, India that killed 170 people, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The paper reported that Fitzgerald has personally prosecuted only one case in Chicago…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI may have just officially closed the case in the anthrax murders, but that hasn’t stopped Rep. Holt (D-N.J.) and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md) from pushing for more answers. The two successfully got the House on Thursday to approve an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Bill that would require the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two men who were already behind bars, were indicted Thursday in New York for being part of an al Qaeda plot to blow up the N.Y. subway, the Justice Department announced. Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, were accused of working with Najibullah Zazi to blow up the subway during rush hour,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As conman Bernie Madoff serves his 150 years prison sentence, the FBI continues to chip away at the scandal that devastated many investors. Blooomberg business news reports that the FBI on Thursday morning arrested Daniel Bonventre, the ex-director of operations for Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC, as part of the ongoing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama on Wednesday nominated U.S. Marshals for the northern and southern districts of West Virginia and in North Dakota. The nominees, according to the White House, include: John Foster for the Southern District of West Virginia; Paul Ward for North Dakota and Gary M. Gaskins for the Nothern District of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama on Wednesday continued to nominate U.S. Attorneys, this time for California, Texas, Guam and Florida. The nominees included Laura E. Duffy for the Southern District of California; Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida; Alicia Limtiaco for Guam and John B. Stevens, Jr. for the Eastern District…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At a time when the Justice Department is talking about an open and transparent civilian trial for the 9/11 suspects, this seems all the more unusual. The Houston Chronicle is reporting that the public was barred from a sentencing “behind locked doors and armed guards at the federal courthouse downtown” in…
