By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I have mixed feelings about a ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. The court rescinded an $8.5 million judgment handed down two years ago against the government in the 1982 murders of two people by James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston mobster who was an FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA sting resulted in authorities charging a group of people with plotting to move large shipments of drugs and weapons for the Taliban, authorities announced Monday. In court documents unsealed in New York, authorities charged seven people with conspiring to provide “various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jack Johnson, who in his final weeks as a county executive in suburban Washington got busted on a wiretap advising his wife to hide evidence as FBI agents knocked on the door, was indicted Monday on charges of conspiracy, extortion, tampering with a witness and evidence and taking more…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Washington can be a way too serious place. Then occasionally someone comes along and figures out how to turn all the manure into entertainment. Over the past two weekends people have flocked to the Baltimore Theater Project to see “The Gonzales Cantata”, an opera by composer Melissa Dunphy who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s legendary director J. Edgar Hoover continues to stir up controversy. The latest: the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.) is voicing opposition to a plan to name the research center at the yet to be built National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Court of Appeals has taken the FBI off the hook — at least for now in a multi-million dollar lawsuit. The Boston Globe reported that U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston last week overturned an $8.5 million court award two years ago to the families of two men who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former New Orleans U. S Attorney John Volz, who prosecuted such notables as crime boss Carlos Marcello, former Gov. Edwin Edwards and former New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick, died in Tulsa Saturday morning after a lengthy illness, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. The Carter appointee was 74. U.S. District Judge…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — THE JOB of inspector general is often a thankless one, requiring the ability to make unflinching and crucial assessments that are not always well received by colleagues. The Justice Department employed one of the best for the past decade in the person of Glenn A. Fine, who…
