By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office challenged allegations by a defense attorney that the government was involved in misconduct in a mob case in which a cooperating witness ran a prostitution ring that used a 15-year-old girl, the New York Times reported. The Times reported that the government, in a court filing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Powerful Maryland state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie, 73, finds himself in big trouble. The feds in Baltimore on Wednesday indicted him for allegedly taking more than $245,000 in bribes to use his office to help a grocery chain, Shoppers Food and Pharmacy. Two former Shoppers Food officials were also…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. officials launched a multi-prong attack against the Pakistan Taliban, placing the group on the international terrorism black list while indicting its leader in the death of seven CIA employees last year on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. The State Department also announced that it was offering a…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News FBI agents deal with trouble. That’s what they do for a living. But lately, down in Texas, for some inexplicable reason, FBI agents have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. In fact, in the past nine months, four agents — who are all now ex-agents —…
UPDATE: Tuesday, 2:10 p.m — The Associated Press reports that Dutch prosecutors said the two Yemeni men were released without charge Wednesday after investigators found no evidence of a terror plot. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — All the hoopla over two Yemeni men detained in Amsterdam appears to be nothing, federal law enforcement sources…
By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — In the federal government, there are inside people and outside people, those who work in the bowels of the bureaucracy and others who seek out the media glare. Timothy P. Murphy is an inside guy. The FBI’s new deputy director speaks in the language of corporate…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News FBI agents deal with trouble. That’s what they do for a living. But lately, down in Texas, for some inexplicable reason, FBI agents have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. In fact, in the past nine months, four agents — who are all now ex-agents —…
