By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to nearly 18 years in prison, one of the harshest sentences ever handed down in the U.S. in a public corruption case. Authorities said Constantine Peter Kallas, 40 of Alta Loma, Calif. was sentenced to 212…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The top New York cop on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force almost got transferred from the unit after he refused to share classified info with his superiors in the police department, the New York Daily News reported. But the FBI intervened and prevented the transfer of NYPD Deputy Chief James…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s game time for the baseball legend Barry Bonds. Jury selection begins Monday in federal court in San Francisco for the home run slugger who is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he didn’t take steroids. Bonds, 46, is not likely to face prison…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The buck apparently stopped with 67-year-old Bernard von NotHaus. Von NotHaus, who was part of an anti-government movement, was convicted last week in federal court in North Carolina of minting roughly $7 million in Liberty Dollar coins, authorities said. Authorities said investigators found that he had been making and disseminating the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 31-year-old Illinois man claims the FBI said it could remove him from the no-fly list if he agreed to go undercover at mosques, the Associated Press reported. He refused the offer. AP reported that Abe Mashal, a dog trainer from St. Charles, Ill., says the bureau said he landed on…
