By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kevin Foust, head of the Roanoke, Va. FBI office, is a little nervous. After a quarter century with the FBI, Foust, 50, is leaving to become deputy chief of Virginia Tech’s police department, according to the Roanoke Times. His $80,000 a year job will be to assess security for the university…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which blew the case against Sen. Ted Stevens, may be screwing up a big public corruption case in Montgomery, Ala. Both cases involve allegations of withholding evidence from the defense. The Associated Press reports that an angry U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Capel Jr. is fed…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In the film “Take the Money and Run,” Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. “You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list,” Starkwell’s wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. “It’s very unfair voting. It’s who you know.” As Allen’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A goof by federal law enforcement resulted in the murder of Genovese family mobster Adolfo (Big Al) Bruno in 2003, Gang Land News reports. The website on the Mafia reported that a federal probation officer mentioned in a pre-sentence report to a Massachusetts federal judge that Bruno, who ran the Springfield,…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — No surprise, politics is surfacing inside the beltway. The Justice Department on Friday expressed disappointment in a Congressional committee which issued a subpoena for documents from ATF on a controversial gun program, saying it had already told the committee it planned to cooperate. “We are therefore surprised and disappointed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A show down on Capitol Hill seems to be getting closer. The head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform announced Friday morning that he was issuing a subpoena to ATF to force it to turn over documents relating to a controversial gun program “Project Gunrunner” and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Like many wild parties, once they’re over, the clean up can be a bear. Well, the party has long been over for Madoff and the very expensive clean up is underway. And it ain’t close to being over. The Washington Post’s David Hilzenrath reports that the clean up has…
