By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ted Dan Gardiner, the undercover witness who helped the feds build a case against more than two dozen people charged with looting American Indian artifacts in the Southwest U.S. , has committed suicide, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that the 52-year-old apparently shot himself Monday in a Salt Lake City…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com D.C. Marion Barry, the guy who got busted years ago for smoking crack, the guy who got busted for failing to pay taxes, the guy who has been one great big embarrassment to the District of Columbia, has now been stripped of his committee chairmanship on the D.C. Council and faces…
Judge Richard Posner/ harvard photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two federal Court of Appeals judges from Chicago took the stand Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court, saying they felt threatened by the rantings of Internet radio shock jock Hal Turner, the New York Daily News reported. Federal Judges Richard Posner and William Bauer took the stand…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When it comes to a federal juror stepping over the line, Maximino Gonzalez rates right up there with the best of them. Maximino, 36, of Palmview, Tex., who served on a jury in 2008, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Houston on Monday to jury tampering after he met with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’re going to make up a story and possibly go to prison for it, it might as well be a grand one. Enter Sylvia Mardini. The 24-year-old Los Angeles woman who pretended she had been kidnapped across state lines last summer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Los Angeles …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 25-year-old Maryland drug dealer, who was known to wear a radio frequency device to detect undercover law enforcement with recording devices, was sentenced in Baltimore on Monday to 24 years and 4 months in prison for witness tampering in the death of a fellow drug dealer. U.S. District Judge J….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sorry J.D. Salinger, you may have made a big splash with your words, but you weren’t worthy of an FBI file. The Associated Press reports that the FBI said it never opened up a file on Salinger, author of “The Catcher in the Rye”, who died in January at age 91….
UPDATE: Mon.- 9 p.m. (EST) — ABC 4 News in Utah reports that the suspicious powder was not hazardous. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A suspicious powder letter in a mail facility set off a series of events Monday at the Ogden, Utah IRS center. ABC 4 News in Utah and the Associated Press report that…
