By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ACLU is fighting a practice by federal authorities, who routinely search laptops and cells phones at border crossings. The New York Daily News reports that the ACLU on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court challenging the policy. The lawsuit contends that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security routinely…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A jittery public continues to get a periodic reminder of the potential dangers of flying. The latest came Tuesday evening when Thai Airways flight 794 from Bangkok landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport after a bomb threat written in poorly worded English was discovered on a bathroom mirror, the Associated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Idiotic and dangerous are the words Attorney General Eric Holder used to describe a plan to burn the Quran on Sept. 11, nine years after the infamous attack that shook the foundation of the United States, Associated Press reported. AP reported that Holder used those words during a closed door meeting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Washington to embezzling about $850,000 in funds, authorities said. Christopher J. Ward, 41, formerly of Bethesda, Md.,pleaded guilty to stealing funds from the NRCC and other political committees, which were clients of his accounting and consulting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man who headed up the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico was sentenced Friday in Arizona to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $4 million, the Associated Press reported. Carlos Molinares Nunez, aka “Caliche,” was arrested in 2006 while staying with his wife’s relatives in Tucson, AP reported. Authorities…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We often think that once a criminal is behind bars, society is a little safer. William Farr shows us that’s not necessarily true. The 46-year-old West Palm Beach man, while in the West Palm Beach County Jail, ran a scam in which he fleeced consumers of $35 million by charging them…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — ONLY ABOUT 10 percent of the nation’s 100,000 licensed gun dealers are audited each year by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF cannot fine wayward dealers; its only tool at the moment involves revoking a miscreant’s license. And that happens only about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An attorney for a Los Angeles cop who was acquitted last week of illegally exporting guns says the laws are so confusing it’s difficult for people to adhere to them all. “There is so much confusion when comes to these requirements,” Humbarto Diaz, a federal public defender, said in an interview…
