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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes dropped in 2010 compared to the previous year, the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime report showed. The report, released Monday, showed a 5.5 percent decrease in reported violent crimes compared to 2009. Property crimes dropped 2.8 percent. The FBI reported that murder declined 4.4 percent ,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mob in Philadelphia got a rude awakening Monday morning. FBI agents rounded up Philly reputed mob boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi, underboss Joseph Massimino and nine other reputed associates, capping a lengthy probe that focused on crimes including violence, gambling, loan sharking, witness tampering and extortion, the Justice Department announced….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The doping case involving Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong — the subject of a federal grand jury in Los Angeles — is heating up. A former teammate of Armstrong’s Tyler Hamilton told 60 Minutes that the international cycling authorities helped the legendary Armstrong cover up a positive test for the…
