By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A just-released Senate report on Mexico drug trafficking urges judicial and police reforms in Mexico and calls for the Obama Administration to provide more resources to its southern neighbor and to do more to starve Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations of the money that fuels them. The report, issued by The U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Aspen, Colo., the scenic skiing area and playground for the rich, all is not well between the DEA and the local sheriff. The Aspen Times reports that the strain and distrust between the DEA and the Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo of Aspen was addressed in a private meeting Wednesday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution fired off a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller accusing the agency of providing “incomplete and misleading” information on the 2001 anthrax attacks to the committee. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) letter focuses on the amount of “silicon” that was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a ruling that comes as little surprise, a federal judge on Wednesday in Arizona ruled that Jared L. Loughner, who killed 6 and wounded 13 others including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is not mentally competent to stand trial, the New York Times reported. U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns of Tucson…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Newly minted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a cameo appearance Thursday in the Rod Blagojevich public corruption retrial in downtown Chicago that lasted only a few minutes, the Chicago Tribune reported. Under questioning by defense attorney Sheldon Sorosky, Emanuel was asked his occupation, according to the Trib. “Mayor of the City…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Once a presidential hopeful, John Edwards now faces far less hopeful times. NBC News reports that the Justice Department has given the OK to file charges against Edwards, 57, for alleged violations of campaign finance laws stemming from a cover up of an extra-marital affair with Rielle Hunter. NBC reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former boss of the Bonanno crime family Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano plotted to kill a mob-busting federal prosecutor at an upper East Side Italian restaurant over an issue of disrespect, a government witness testified Tuesday in federal court in New York, the New York Daily News reported. Ex-mobster Dominick Cicale testified…
