By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas Man nicknamed “G-Bone” pleaded guilty Monday to shooting and wounding an ATF agent who had come to arrest him, authorities said. Gary Montgomery,39, who now faces up to 20 years in prison, also pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater in Dallas to distributing crack cocaine and being…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayxHcnRf5ik OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Jury Deliberations Continue in New Orleans for Cops in Post-Katrina Fatal Shooting (AP) Ex-Congressional Candidate Guilty of Obstruction of Justice (AP) Ex-Pastor Off to Prison for Duping Investors (AP) Judge Rules Jury Can See Video in Uzi Death (AP) Two DOJ Lawyers Recommended for D.C. Superior Court (Main Justice)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who knew New York City had a sheriff? Well, native New Yorker Edgar Domenech, the whistleblower who was Deputy Director of ATF until he was demoted in 2007 after raising questions about financial mismanagement in 2007, has been named the city’s new sheriff, according to the New York Daily News. Domenech…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. scored a little victory in the battle against terrorism. The Washington Post reports that a federal judge in Washington tossed out a lawsuit by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the administration’s legal right to place Yemen cleric Nasser al-Aulaqi, who is also a U.S. citizen,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com T.S. Eliot he’s not. A Kentucky man who posted on the Internet a poem threatening President Obama was sentenced Monday in Louisville federal court to 33 months in prison, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Johnny Logan Spencer, 28, apologized for writing the poem entitled “The Sniper”, which described a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In this turbulent era of WikiLeaks, this hardly seems shocking. Authorities are alleging in a search warrant that a Navy sailor based at Fort Bragg passed classified documents to an undercover FBI agent posing as a foreign intelligence agent, the Associated Press reports. In exchange, he was given cash. AP reported…
“Spiderman, Spiderman, Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like flies. Look Out! Here comes the Spiderman.” Theme song to Spiderman By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com In this case, the feds spun a web to capture a German man in a probe dubbed “Operation Spiderman.” Late last week, special agents…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 3 1/2 month operation involving the nation’s “largest ever” crackdown on financial fraud, has resulted in the arrest of hundreds of people who swindled investors out of billions of dollars, the Justice Department announced Monday. Dubbed “Operation Broken Trust”, authorities said they have taken criminal action against 343…
