By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. delivered a forceful speech Friday night before the Muslim Advocates’ Annual Dinner in suburban San Francisco, strongly defending the FBI stings involving terrorism. “Our nation’s law enforcement professionals have consistently demonstrated not just their effectiveness, but also their commitment to the highest standards of professional conduct,…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvk3F_sQ-S8 WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Elizabeth Smart’s Kidnapper Found Guilty (People Magazine) Austrian Banker Accused of Being an Accomplice in Madoff Scheme (NY Times) Mexican Drug Leader Believed to be Dead (NY Times) New Nixon Tapes and Documents Released From Watergate Era (AOL News) Senate Confirms Three U.S. Attorneys (Main Justice) Bernie Madoff”s Son Found…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston is battling for his career. The state Office of Bar Counsel in Massachusetts urged a three judge panel on Thursday to suspend Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn’s license for at least two years, claiming he deliberately withheld evidence in a high-profile Mafia case in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy surrounding the conclusion of the anthrax investigation is surfacing again. The New York Times reports that the FBI has requested a last minute delay in the release of an independent scientific report by the National Academy of Sciences. The delay prompted Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.), a critic of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agent Hal Neilson is no longer in trouble. Federal prosecutor Richard Bourgeois on Wednesday dismissed three remaining counts the jury deadlocked on on Nov. 20, the Northeast Mississippi Journal reported. The prosecutor indicated that U.S. can no longer “meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt.” Neilson, 49,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury on Thursday convicted three New Orleans cops in the Post-Katrina fatal shooting of citizen Henry Glover and the burning of his body and the cover up, the Justice Department announced. Two other cops were acquitted. The jury found former New Orleans cop David Warren was guilty of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal cop for Homeland Security was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for making illegal traffic stops and illegally detaining people in Georgia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta announced. Stephen G. House, 53, of Silver Creek, Ga., a law enforcement and security officer for the Federal Protective Service…
