By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to figure out if ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and other officials have assets in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reports. Agents, along with a new Justice Department team, are looking for “proceeds of theft by foreign officials,” the Journal reported. The paper reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s unclear where it all stands. But Martin Weil of the Washington Post reports that an FBI agent was taken into custody following a fatal car crash Monday night in Prince George’s County, just outside of Washington. The Post reported that an 18-year-old man was killed in the two-car…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Nashville U.S. Attorney John Roberts, who served during the Clinton administration, died Sunday after a long illness, the Memphis Post reported. He was 74. After leaving his post, Roberts served as executive director of the Livingston-Overton County Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he served as a General Sessions Court judge. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It hardly comes as a surprise that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking a judge to sentence Chandra Levy’s killer to life in prison without parole. The Washington Post reports that the prosecutors, in asking for a life sentence, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that convicted killer…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After changing his name and being on the lam for 17 years, the FBI on Monday nabbed suspected New England mobster Enrico Ponzo in Idaho, the Boston Herald reported. The paper reported that Ponzo, 42, — suspected of being part of New England’s Patriarca Family –faces a host of charges including…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The unusual circumstances warranted this headline in the Providence Journal on Wednesday: “U.S. Prosecutors Left in the Cold on Drug Bust.” The paper reported that when state police and DEA agents in Providence, R.I., last week announced the seizure of 145 pounds of cocaine, $1.2 million in cash and the arrest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — States around the country are turning to the Justice Department for help in locating an execution drug, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that 13 states signed a letter sent to the Justice Department asking for help scoring sodium thiopental after the only U.S. manufacturer stopped producing it and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Call it more than a little embarrassing when you’re an official in a U.S. Attorney’s Office and your ex-husband gets caught stealing more than $3.7 million. Well, that’s just exactly what happened to Sudabeh Fahami, deputy chief in charge of the U.S. Attorney’s Office branch in Reno, Nev., according to the…
