By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Trouble is a constant companion of Ex-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who is now a city council member. Now the latest. An independent report conducted by attorney William Bennett on behalf of the D.C. City Council has accused Barry of public corruption. The report says Barry secured a $15,000 contract…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York City officers involved in the highly controversial fatal shooting of Sean Bell — he was shot 50 times on his wedding day in 2006 — are off the hook. The Justice Department announced Tuesday there was insufficient evidence to file civil rights charges against the officers in the…
A Los Angeles Times report stirred up a lot of angry reader comments about an FBI agent shooting his gun at men who were trying to steal beer. The problem was: there was no beer and the real story appeared to be far more serious than reported. Here’s a detailed account. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Max Ray Vision’s impressive hacking skills were only equal to his impressive prison sentence: 13 years — the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history, according to the website WIRED. Last Friday in Pittsburgh, a federal judge sent the skilled San Francisco hacker off to prison and ordered him to pay a…
By Daniel Rubin Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist PHILADELPHIA — Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in. Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn’t allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces? Unfortunately,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor who toiled in the eye of the political hurricane during the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked Washington, will become the new president of Baylor University in Texas, the Associated Press reported. Starr has been dean of Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu, Calif. The AP…
To the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office, the characters were voices on wiretaps or investigative files or criminal case numbers. To the public, they still represent a slice of fascination. BY Erica Pearson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER That Starbucks over there? Used to be the scene of one of the city’s most notorious mob hits….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A veteran DEA agent was shot multiple times and wounded in Afghanistan on Sunday while on a mission, according to people familiar with the incident. The veteran agent, who was a team leader of the DEA FAST Team (Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Team) was shot and wounded in Marjeh,…
