By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Geek Squad these men were not, at least according to federal authorities in New York. The U.S. Attorney’s Office charged two former Brooklyn men with conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaeda that included providing computer advice, according to an indictment unsealed Friday. The men, Wesam El-Hanafi, 33, is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI official in Texas told state lawmakers Thursday that kidnappings in the border town of McAllen, Tex., have nearly quadrupled over the last fiscal year, and most were drug related, the Associated Press reported. John Johnson, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI McAllen office, said 42 people were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a case that was clearly a big big disgrace to the judiciary, ex-Luzrine County, Pa., Judge Michael T. Conahan pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in the “kids-for-cash” scandal that wrongfully sent some juveniles to jail in exchange for a kickback in cash, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. He now faces…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened a preliminary investigation into Goldman Sachs, the poster child for greed in America. The New York Times, citing “people familiar with the matter’, said the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has filed a civil fraud suit against the financial giant, Goldman, referred the case…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 17-year-old was sentenced Thursday in San Diego to 40 years in prison for the fatal shooting of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Agent during a robbery attempt last July 23 at the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities announced. Christian Daniel Castro-Alvarez admitted in U.S. District Court that he crossed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than a dozen ex-U.S. Attorneys, a former Solicitor General and six ex-Attorney Generals including Janet Reno, Ramsey Clark and Edwin Meese III, have signed a letter written to an Iowa federal judge questioning “the government’s extreme sentencing position” regarding Sholom Rubashskin, the former chief executive of an Iowa kosher meat…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York mobster Joseph O’Kane, who testified as a defense witness for friend John Gotti Jr. last fall, has been murdered in prison, the website Gangland News reported. Joseph O’Kane, 44, was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate on Sunday in his cell block at a high-security prison in Waymart,…
