Blago Begins Round 2: Has No Intention to Seek Plea
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Five FBI Agents Partook in Ironman Competition at Lake Placid
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now for the lighter side of life. FBI agent Christopher Johnson was one of five agents who partook in the Ironman competition at Lake Placid, N.Y. on July 25, the FBI in Detroit announced. Johnson completed the 140.6 mile race — 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile…
Head of St. Louis FBI Roland Corvington Going to Work For University
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Veteran agent Roland J. Corvington, head of the St. Louis FBI, is leaving to the become chief of security at Saint Louis University, according to the St. Louis American. “I am terribly sad to see him go,” U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan for Eastern Missouri – executive prosecutor to Corvington’s top cop…
Dallas FBI Agent Set to Plead to Hiring Illegals for Deli She Owned
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas FBI agent who was fired after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges last month claiming she hired illegal immigrants for a restaurant she owned is expected to plead guilty to the charges next week, the Dallas Morning News reports. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed misdemeanor charges on July 28…
Feds Charge 7-Time Cy Young Winner Roger Clemens With Lying to Congress About Steroids
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The feds in Washington, as expected, let rip an indictment on Thursday charging seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens with perjury, making false statements and obstruction of Congress stemming from his dubious testimony in 2008 before lawmakers investigating steroid use in baseball. If convicted, Clemens, 48, of Houston, could…
Ex-FBI Agent Who is Muslim Says Opposition to Mosque Helping al Qaeda About War Against Islam
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former top FBI interrogator, who is a Muslim, says the opposition to building a mosque near ground zero is only helping al-Qaeda, the Washington Post’s Spy Talk column reports. “It bolsters the message that radicalizers are selling: That the war is against Islam, and Muslims are not welcome in America,”…
Washington Post Editorial: U.S. Atty. Fitzgerald Should “Back Off” Retrying Blagojevich
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — U.S. ATTORNEY Patrick J. Fitzgerald should back off his vow to retry former governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.). With moral thunder in December 2008, the aggressive prosecutor declared that the state’s chief executive was nabbed “in the middle of what we can only describe as a public corruption…
Media Leak Led to Judge Granting Asylum to Pres. Obama’s Aunt
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A leak to the media prompted an immigration judge to grant asylum to President Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango who lives in Boston public housing, the Boston Globe reported. The paper reported that the judge, Leonard I. Shapiro, ruled the asylum was granted because of an anonymous federal official in the Bush…