By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-ATF agent in Tulsa, Ok., has been charged with drug trafficking and has been implicated in a fabricated drug buy in 2007 that sent a father and daughter to federal prison, the Tulsa Daily World reported. The paper reported ex-ATF agent Brandon J. McFadden, 33, who left the agency last year, has…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s really not enough that the goofy Qatari diplomat who caused a scare aboard a United Flight from D.C. to Denver Wednesday will voluntarily leave the country. The country of Qatar, at minimum, should pay for the two F-16 fighter jets that were scrambled in response to the man’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The fear in east Texas vanished with the indictment on Wednesday of a man suspected of putting more than 30 explosive devices in mailboxes and other locations, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that suspect Larry Eugene North was angry at the government and appeared have acted alone. ATF Agent Robert…
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By Allan Lengel For AOL News Nancy Bell is not your typical grandma. Just ask the feds and the sheriff’s department in Lee County, Va. Authorities say the 64-year-old Tennessee grandmother, who suffers from heart ailments, and her daughter Iris Gibson, 45, and granddaughter Misty Parker, 23, illegally trafficked in OxyContin. The powerful narcotic painkiller…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ugliness of the post-Katrina police shootings in New Orleans that left two unarmed citizens dead and four wounded in 2005 on the infamous Danziger Bridge continued to unravel in U.S. District Court. New Orleans cop Michael Hunter,33, became the third cop –and the first to actually witness the shootings —…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago wants a federal judge to compel the testimony of an attorney who served as Rod Blagojevich’s general counsel while he was governor of Illinois. At issue is the attorney-client privilege involving the attorney William J. Quinlan. Blagojevich and his brother Robert face trial on public…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alfred Wong, a former Secret Service official who reportedly oversaw the installation of the taping system at the Nixon White House, and whose job at one point was to prevent the White House from being bugged, died last week of mesothelioma, a form of cancer, the Washington Post reported….
