By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — First lesson: if you’re going try your hand at humor on a plane — better it be funny, than scary. The Associated Press reported that something went wrong on United Flight 663 from Washington-to-Denver Wednesday night when a diplomat from Qatar, who has lived in the U.S. for years,…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested a San Francisco man this afternoon for allegedly making dozens of threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, the latest in the backlash against lawmakers who supported the legislation. Gregory Giusti, 48, was arrested around 12:15 p.m. and was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A key FBI official, Arthur M. Cummings II, executive assistant director for the FBI’s National Security Branch at headquarters– which includes weapons of mass destruction, counterintelligence and counterterrorism — is retiring soon to work for a financial institution in Connecticut. Cummings, who has been an agent for 22-years, had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The ghost of crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff continues to rear its head in this town which once treated him as a king — that is before he became radioactive and went off to prison. The latest came Wednesday when Horace M. Cooper, 44, of Lorton, Va., pleaded guilty in…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but not in the art world — particularly when it means duping unsuspecting collectors. Kristine Eubanks, 52, of La Canada, Calif., was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to seven years in prison for selling through a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted drug dealer Cameron Douglas, son of actor Mike Douglas and grandson of Kirk Douglas, has rounded up plenty star power to try and convince a federal judge to go easy on him at sentencing on April 14 in New York. Cameron’s grandfather Kirk Doulgas, his step-mother Catherine Zeta-Jones and NBA…
The U.S. is expanding the “no fly list” in response to the attempted bombing on Christmas Day to improve security. The downside is there’s likely to be a growing number of nightmare stories like the one Rahinah Ibrahim experienced. Unfortunately, there’s too many already. By Mike McIntire New York Times Rahinah Ibrahim, a Stanford University…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com They may be brothers, but their attorneys seem to be mapping out conflicting strategies. Robert Blogojevich, brother of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has filed a motion to keep FBI recordings from airing in their upcoming public corruption trial, the Chicago Tribune reports. Brother Rod has indicated that he has nothing to…
