By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oye! The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York announced on Thursday the extradition of seven Israelis, who ran a lottery telemarketing scam that netted about $2 million from elderly victims in the U.S. between 2007 and September 2008. “The perpetrators of this fraudulent lottery scheme gambled and lost,” said U.S. Attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a Swiss freight company, four oil service companies and a U.S. shipping firm will pay a total of $236.5 million in criminal and civil fines for bribing foreign officials in 10 countries for favorable treatment, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The companies bribed officials for favorable treatment…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday discovered a 600-yard long tunnel with lighting and ventilation that went from Tijuana to California that was used to smuggle marijuana, the New York Times reported. DEA and ICE officials said they found about 30 tons of marijuana in the Otay Mesa section of San Diego,the Times…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From our nation’s heartland comes the latest allegation of people supporting al Qaeda with cash. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging three men including a cab driver from St. Louis with conspiring to fund al Shabaab, a terrorist group in Somalia linked to al Qaeda,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baltimore cop Gregory Mussmacher was convicted in state court of assault after he used his police baton to strike a handcuffed and shackled juvenile in the head and face. But the conviction was reversed. So in stepped the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which convicted Mussmacher in May for the 2004…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With trial set to begin next week, a federal judge has ruled that an FBI agent accused of lying about his ownership in a building the FBI leased in Oxford, Miss., cannot allege in court that the charges were the result of a vendetta by then-U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee, the Associated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI said Wednesday that all five mysterious shootings at U.S. military facilities in Northern Virginia are linked. Lindsay Godwin, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington field office, said all indications from the FBI lab are that they are all from the same weapon. She declined to say if the agency…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The California initiative to legalize marijuana — a law that would have complicated enforcement for federal agents — went down in defeat on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Times reports that Proposition 19, which would have allowed pot to be sold for recreational use, failed to get the support of the state’s…
