By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities claim U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Andrew Rodriguez of Minnesota tried to get a transfer to the southern border by telling a big lie to federal investigators. On Thursday, an indictment was unsealed charging Rodriguez, 29, of East Grand Folks, Minn., with making a false statement to the…
By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County (Va.) home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place. Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Smugglers never seem to run out of ways to get drugs into the U.S. The latest: U.S. authorities tipped off Mexicans officials that some smugglers were using a catapult to launch marijuana packages from Mexico into the U.S. The Associated Press reported that National Guard troops in Arizona spotted the catapult…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Baltimore federal prosecutor Stephanie A. Gallagher has been named a U.S. District Magistrate Judge in Baltimore. Gallagher, 38, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Baltimore office for seven years before forming the firm Levin & Gallagher in Baltimore. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office she investigated and prosecuted a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Detroit’s disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who sits behind bars at a federal prison in Michigan, should have some interesting reading to pass the time. A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to give him 24 DVDs containing evidence he can review to prep for his case in which he’s accused of…
By James Burdick ticklethewire.com I was reading a recent USA Today article cited in ticklethewire.com, which found 201 cases since 1997 in which courts concluded that federal prosecutors violated laws or ethics rules. In some of those instances, cases were tossed or sentences were reduced. It’s good to see those facts unearthed. Still, someone needs…
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William Donati is an English professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and author of the recently-released book: “Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss” By William Donati For ticklethewire.com LAS VEGAS — The debut of the Las Vegas Mob Experience — a new museum housed in the legendary Tropicana…
