By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Washington to embezzling about $850,000 in funds, authorities said. Christopher J. Ward, 41, formerly of Bethesda, Md.,pleaded guilty to stealing funds from the NRCC and other political committees, which were clients of his accounting and consulting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man who headed up the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico was sentenced Friday in Arizona to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $4 million, the Associated Press reported. Carlos Molinares Nunez, aka “Caliche,” was arrested in 2006 while staying with his wife’s relatives in Tucson, AP reported. Authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We often think that once a criminal is behind bars, society is a little safer. William Farr shows us that’s not necessarily true. The 46-year-old West Palm Beach man, while in the West Palm Beach County Jail, ran a scam in which he fleeced consumers of $35 million by charging them…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — ONLY ABOUT 10 percent of the nation’s 100,000 licensed gun dealers are audited each year by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF cannot fine wayward dealers; its only tool at the moment involves revoking a miscreant’s license. And that happens only about…
