By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On flights across the country, there are passengers who yak too much, or lean their seat way too far back or take up your elbow rest. And there’s Kyle Pearce, 25, in a category all to his own. The FBI arrested the Florida man last Thursday at the Denver airport after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich was once known for his political prowess. But in the past 18 months or so he’s been known more for being an entertaining sort. He’s appeared on Letterman. And the Daily Show. And he did a commercial promoting pistachios. And he went on The Celebrity Apprentice with The…
Reporter James Risen By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department and the New York Times have had their fair share of battles in court over testifying. The latest: Fed prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., have subpoenaed Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter James Risen to testify against a former CIA operative who is awaiting trial,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Three weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed, and Americans accused Pakistan of knowing of his whereabouts, damaging evidence against Pakistan’s intelligence agency has surfaced. The New York Times reports that the government’s leading witness in a federal trial in downtown Chicago involving the Mumbai, India attacks in 2008 implicated the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– A Michigan insurance company insists it’s still not getting justice from the Justice Department. The Associated Press reports that the Justice Department is still refusing to pay $750,000 to a Michigan insurance company for a stolen Ferrari F50 that was recovered, but then was wrecked while being driven by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The hand of al Qaeda is on key evidence involving attempted terrorist attacks against the U.S. The Associated Press reports that the fingerprints of al-Qaida’s top bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri in Yemen has been linked to the bomb hidden in the underwear of a Nigerian man on Christmas day on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –An FBI agent is off the hook. U.S. District Judge Marianne Battani of Detroit on Monday tossed out a lawsuit against FBI agent Michael Thomas, the Associated Press reported. The suit was filed Karim Koubriti, whose terrorism conviction in Detroit was thrown out after it was ruled that the prosecution…
By Justin Blum Bloomberg WASHINGTON — In November 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed before television cameras to prosecute those responsible for the market collapse a year earlier, saying the U.S. would be “relentless” in pursuing corporate criminals. In the 18 months since, no senior Wall Street executive has been criminally charged, and some lawmakers…
