“The jerk store called, they’re running out of you.” George Costanza, Seinfeld By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The above quote may be applicable to a Washington state man who was convicted Tuesday of filing over $20 billion in false liens against federal officials including fed prosecutors. The 2-day trial ended when Ronald James Davenport, of…
By Carol Morello Washington Post WASHINGTON –– Gregg Schwarz frowned as he positioned himself, just so, in front of the wrought iron fence surrounding John Edgar Hoover’s grave, a place he has visited countless times but never before in anger. A retired FBI agent who joined the agency in 1972, the year Hoover died, Schwarz…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A corrupt former aide to two Buffalo mayors may help the feds find more corruption. Timothy E. Wanamaker, also a former economic development chief, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of stealing government funds, reports Buffalo News, and agreed to cooperate with federal investigators. Wanamaker admitted to charging about $30,000…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York State Assemblyman was arrested by the FBI on bribery and extortion, reports NBC. Acquitted on federal corruption charges just weeks ago, Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. was again arrested on new charges. It is alleged that he solicited money illegally to pay for the legal expenses of previous charges….
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder has had enough. Holder told a reporter from the Daily Caller , a conservative news website, to stop egging congressional Republicans on to call for his resignation, reports Talking Points Memo. “You guys need to… you guys need to stop this,” TPM reports hearing Holder tell…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent was taken into custody Tuesday after being sentenced to five months in prison followed by five months home confinement for lying to investigators about losing money seized in a major drug bust. Authorities suspect he actually stole the money. Jerry Nau, from Peoria, Ill., pleaded guilty in…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — IN THE SPRING of 2009, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. took the extraordinary step of asking a federal judge to dismiss corruption charges against former senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). This was no easy decision. Mr. Stevens had been prosecuted by the Justice Department’s vaunted Public Integrity…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds are getting out the check book to cover an anthrax lawsuit filed by the wife whose husband — a Florida tabloid photo editor — was killed in 2001 by an anthrax letter. The Associated Press reports that the U.S. government has agreed to pay widow Maureen Stevens $2.5 million…
