September 2010
More on the Miami Fed Prosecutor Who Got in Hot Water for Jumping in Pool With Boxers
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Depending how you look at it, Miami federal prosecutor Sean Cronin landed in hot water when his privates went public. Or when he first plunged into a cool pool at a watering hole wearing just his boxer shorts. Whatever the case, one thing led to another on Sunday afternoon…
Times Square Bomber Planned to Detonate 2nd Bomb, Prosecutors Say
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the Times Square Bomber planned to set off an additional bomb two weeks later, according to court papers filed by prosecutors Wednesday, which urged the judge to give Faisal Shahzad a life sentence. The papers, a sentencing memorandum, said that Shahazd hoped to kill 40 people in…
Column: Atty. Gen. Holder Urges Senate to Step it Up on Judicial Vacancies
By Eric Holder Jr. U.S. Attorney General For the Washington Post WASHINGTON — More than a year ago, President Obama nominated Jane Stranch, a respected Nashville labor lawyer, to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. That vacancy had been declared a “judicial emergency” because the Sixth Circuit does not…
FBI Investigating ex-President Andy Stern of SEIU Union; Stern Says Reports Not True
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Andy Stern, the contentious man who headed the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, is under investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that two organized labor officials were interviewed this summer by federal agents about a six-figure book contract…
Whistleblower Trial Highlights FBI’s Change After 9-11
By Spencer Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — An FBI whistleblower trial has cast a spotlight on the bureau’s difficult transition from a crime-fighting agency into a counterterrorism and intelligence force, as seen through the career of its highest-ranking Arab American agent. Over a two-week trial in Washington, a federal jury heard for the first…
Louisiana Man Allegedly Ties Noose Around Racoon’s Neck to Intimidate African-American Students
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com A Louisiana man faces federal hate crime charges for allegedly tying a noose around the neck of a dead raccoon and hanging it from a flagpole at a middle school to intimidate African-American students who were attending the school under a court-ordered busing policy. Authorities on Monday announced that Christopher Shane…