By Justin Blum Bloomberg WASHINGTON — In its search for American-built F-5 fighter jet parts, Iran turned to a father-son company operating out of a yellow stucco cottage on a country road on Ireland’s northwest coast. Tom and Sean McGuinn are accused in a U.S. indictment of conspiracy, trade violations and making false statements to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James “Harlem” Washington was helping deliver more than the U.S. mail. Washington, a supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service, was convicted Thursday in federal court in New York of running a “Lotto” type numbers gambling operation at the Postal Service and other government facilities that collected about $10 million in wagers,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — At the Pentagon, just across the Potomac, this lunch guest was one of the more unusual ones. The Pentagon confirmed that radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born al Qaeda operative now on a U.S. kill-or-capture list, had lunch at the Pentagon after the Sept. 11, attacks as part…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA agent got a little more than she bargained for when she went to the firing range in Los Angeles County. The agent was shot and wounded in the hip after her gun accidentally discharged during a firearms training exercise on Sept. 28 at the DEA-authorized weapons range at the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Blackwater Worldwide, the security firm that became a toxic symbol of America in Afghanistan and Iraq, may be getting a bigger break than it ever imagined. James Risen of the New York Times reports that after nearly four years the federal government’s investigations and prosecutions against the Blackwater Worldwide…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In an eye-brow raising ruling likely to get challenged, a federal judge in Washington ruled Wednesday that the Bank of China can be sued for allegedly supporting terrorism in a 2006 suicide bombing case in Israel, the Washington Post reported. Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth, in an 118-page ruling,…
