By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s certainly understandable that ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich would be under a lot of stress. His travails began in 2008 when he was arrested on a number of public corruption charges. Since then, it’s been all down hill. He was removed from office, and he faced two high-profile, highly-stressful public corruption…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — So much for above the board negotiations. Two ex-United Auto Workers officials were sentenced to prison Tuesday in federal court in Detroit for conspiring to extort General Motors during a strike in 1997 at the Pontiac Truck Plant. Donny Douglas, 70, of Holly, Mich., a former UAW International Servicing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA headquarters is housed in suburban Virginia. So is the Pentagon. So would it be that outlandish to move the legendary, but outdated FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, just down the street from the Capitol, to suburban Maryland? Maryland officials apparently think it’s not unreasonable. In fact, they think it’s…
