By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who investigated white collar crime in Orange County, Calif., pleaded not guilty Monday to using the FBI computer to obtain information he was not authorized to access, the Associated Press reported. Peter H. Norell Jr., who resigned after criminal charges were filed on March 9, appeared before a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Where Michael David Barrett is headed, he may not want to know what’s on the other side of a peep hole. He’s off to prison. The Chicago-area man was sentenced Monday afternoon in Los Angeles federal court to 2 1/2 years in prison for taking nude videos of ESPN television personality…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Three people with ties to the U.S. consulate murdered in the violent Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez on Saturday were not victims of a drive-by shooting as first reported, the FBI said today. “They were certainly targeted,” said special agent Andrea Simmons, an FBI spokeswoman for the…
The story stems from a 1999 incident down in Mexico. If anything has changed in the past 11 years it’s that things haven’t gotten much worse. By Dan Schiller Houston Chronicle They were outnumbered and outgunned behind enemy lines, but the two U.S. federal agents cornered in a Mexican border city decided to die on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Simply put: This is something you don’t want to hear: The Associated Press reports that the guns used in the recent Pentagon shooting on March 4 and the Las Vegas U.S. District Courthouse on Jan. 4 came from the Memphis police and court system. The AP reported that both…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Loyalty to mom doesn’t always pay off. Stacy Simms, 49, the daughter of the former crooked ex-Orleans Parish School Board President Ellenese Brooks-Simms in New Orleans, was sentenced late last week two years probation for opening a bank account for mom to put her bribe money in, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A northern California man who was under investigation for allegedly threatening the lives of DEA agents and their families via the Internet, was arrested late last week after park rangers saw him wave a gun at a national monument near the Oregon border, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that rangers…
The Detroit Free Press Editorial Page DETROIT — Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously this week to narrow the unconscionable sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine. The notorious 100-1 ratio has no basis in science, while hitting poor people and African Americans especially hard. Along with other mandatory drug sentencing policies…
