2011
Ex-Gov Blago Asks Judge to Cancel Retrial and Sentence Him
By Allan Lengel For AOL News In an unexpected move, the highly entertaining and often unpredictable former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has asked a federal judge to cancel his retrial and sentence him on the sole conviction in his first trial: lying to an FBI agent. Blagojevich insisted that he is still innocent but said…
D.C. Bar Tries to Disbar Ex-Fed Prosecutor
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former federal prosecutor is fighting a battle to keep his law license. USA Today reports that the District’s Bar Counsel on Tuesday asked the D.C. Court of Appeals during a hearing to disbar former D.C. assistant U.S. Attorney G. Paul Howes for “illegal and unethical conduct” in some…
FBI Agent Says NY Terror Suspect Considered Himself Prisoner of War
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man accused of plotting to bomb the N.Y. subway considered himself a prisoner of war after he was arrested in New York last year, an FBI agent testified in court, according to Newsday. FBI agent Farbad Azad testified in federal court that he interviewed bombing suspect Adis Medunjanin at a…
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Chicago Drunk Driver Gets Probation: FBI Agent He Hit Has Undergone 5 Surgeries
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of very sad stories, a 21-year-old Chicago man was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months of probation after pleading guilty to being under the influence of alcohol when he hit an off-duty FBI agent’s car head-on last last September in the Chicago suburb of River Grove, the Chicago Tribune…
Wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal Dies in St. Louis
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A deputy marshal who was critically injured Tuesday morning while trying to arrest a man in St. Louis, died from his wounds Tuesday night around 7 p.m., the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The paper identified the slain deputy U.S. Marshal as John Perry, 48, who had been with the agency…
2 Deputy U.S. Marshals and Cop Shot and Wounded in St. Louis
UPDATE: Tuesday, 5:36 p.m. — Authorities have identified the dead suspect as Carlos Boles, 36, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The fugitive search team was trying to arrest him on a warrant for allegedly assaulting a city police officer and drug possession stemming from an October incident. Boles opened fire Tuesday morning and was…