By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Good news for the feds. Bad news for Kwame Kilpatrick, the ex- “hip hop mayor” of Detroit, who is eye-brow deep in legal trouble. Derrick Miller, 41, a Kilpatrick confidante who worked as the city’s Chief Administrative Officer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to corruption and tax charges and agreed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The feds in Miami are taking aim at some big guys in the drug world. Authorities filed charges against Daniel Barrera-Barrera, an international drug smuggler with alleged ties to terrorist groups in Columbia, reports the Miami Herald. The report calls Barrera-Barrera, 42, one of Columbia’s most-wanted, and says he “maintains a partnership with…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The botched ATF gun walking program Operation Fast and Furious continues to stoke anger in Washington. The latest: Republican Rep. Darrell Issa’s reprimand of Attorney General Eric Holder. “[Eric Holder is so] inept that he is dangerous to have as the Attorney General,” Issa said on the Laura Ingraham show, reports…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sounds like a case of displaced anger. After all, why Joe Biden? Justin Alan Woodward was charged with threatening to kill Vice President Joe Biden after allegedly posting a message on the White House website, the Associated Press reported. He faces a detention hearing Wednesday in Hawaii. AP reports that Secret…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s not unusual for law enforcement agencies to clash behind close doors. It just happens sometimes. But it is unusual when they start to spat in a very public way the way the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office and the state Attorney General’s Office did. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that each…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former acting boss of the Genovese Organized Crime Family Arthur Nigro and two associates were sentenced to life in prison Monday in Manhattan federal court for multiple crimes including racketeering, extortion and loansharking and murders of people they suspected of snitching to authorities, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Nigro and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark F. Giuliano, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters, has been named the agency’s executive assistant director of the National Security Branch, the FBI announced Monday. “I am confident that under Mark’s leadership in managing international and domestic counterterrorism investigations, NSB will continue its strategic…
