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,…
