By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– It’s not particularly shocking. Nonetheless, it’s interesting that the FBI had a file on a 1963 incident involving James von Brunn, the man who killed a Holocaust museum guard in Washington last June 10, according to the Associated Press. Von Brunn, 88, died in January before he could go…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chicago fed prosecutors in the upcoming political corruption trial of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich are worried defense attorneys might go for “jury nullification” and ask jurors to ignore the facts of the case and acquit. “The government respectfully moves this Court to preclude the defendants from arguing, or otherwise presenting evidence…
By Allan Lengel For AOl News Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, James Nichols — whose younger brother Terry was convicted in the case — isn’t really talking, except to say he’s still an organic farmer in Michigan. “I’m not commenting unless you’ve got a big checkbook,” Nichols told AOL News in a phone…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is former FBI agent Robert Levinson who vanished in Iran three years ago, dead? An American-born Muslim convert Hassan Abdulraham, who is wanted for the 1980 murder of a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland, says most likely Yes, Fox News reports. Abdulraham, who was editor of Iran’s state run Press TV…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Obama administration, which still has more vacant positions to fill than a department store chain before Christmas, is apparently getting ready to name a new deputy attorney general. The investigative news website ProPublica reports that the administration is ready to nominate white collar defense attorney James A. Cole, 57 a…
Len Levitt wrote the police column “One Police Plaza” for Newsday for 10 years and has worked for several other publications including Time magazine. His website is nypdconfidential.com By Len Levitt nypdconfidential.com There is more cause for concern about the NYPD’s Lone Cowboy behavior the more we learn about the department’s dealings with the Queens…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In what really comes as no surprise, the FBI has doubled the number of agents assigned to counterterrorism since 2001. Jeff Stein of Spy Talk, a blog for the Washington Post, reports that Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported in fiscal 2009 “the FBI used 26 percent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A resident of Flushing, N.Y., who hailed from China, is headed off to prison for buying illegal cigarettes from undercover ATF agents and paying in cash and with Ectasy-like pills, authorities said. Rui Bai Wang, 33, was sentenced last week to 5 years and 10 months in prison in…
