Movie: A Black FBI Agent Goes to Ireland and Encounters Some Racism in a Comedy “The Guard”
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30 Years Later: FBI Still Hunting for Demonstrator Who Partially Blinded Officer at JFK Airport
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Sept. 26, 1981 when Donna Joan Borup showed up to an anti-apartheid rally at JFK Airport in Queens and allegedly tossed an acid-like substance into the eyes of Port Authority Police Officer Evan Goodstein. Goodstein ended up partially blind and had to resign from the force. Thirty years later,…
Arizona U.S. Atty.’s Abrupt Resignation Raises Doubts About Political Future
By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico WASHINGTON — Dennis Burke, one of Arizona’s most prominent and well-connected Democratic political figures, abruptly resigned as the state’s top federal prosecutor Tuesday, stirring doubts about earlier expectations that he might mount a bid for governor, attorney general or U.S. senator. Burke served in Washington as a senior adviser to Homeland…
Fed Prosecutors Drop Remaining Charges Against Barry Bonds
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baseball slugger Barry Bonds got a little good news even though he faces sentencing Dec. 16 for an obstruction of justice conviction in San Francisco. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the remaining three charges of making false statement, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The jury had…
Calif. Atty. Convicted of Taking Bribes to Get Client to Lie to Grand Jury
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A California attorney thought he’d make some extra cash by getting his client to lie before a grand jury in Los Angeles in a visa fraud case. Now he won’t need that cash when he heads off to prison. Alfred Nash Villalobos, 46, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was found guilty…
FBI Donates Artifacts from 9/11 Attack to Newseum in D.C.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We all remember that eerie day — Sept. 11, 2001 — when terrorists took a routine Tuesday and shook it so hard and turned it upside down and changed forever the way we travel and think about security and radical movements abroad. To bring back some vivid memories, the FBI has…
Oracle Investigation Latest in Trend in Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Crackdown by Justice Dept.
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Software company Oracle is being investigated by the FBI, reports the Guardian, in what some see as a trend in the increase of prosecutions under the foreign corrupt practices act (FCPA), which forbids U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign government officials or employees of state-owned companies. “Every week…