By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is coming down hard on the Puerto Rico Police Department — the nation’s second largest — accusing it of “profound” and “longstanding” civil rights violations and illegal practices, reports the New York Times. The Puerto Rico Police Department is “using force, including deadly force, when no force…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. is sticking to his guns, insisting “the upper levels of the Justice Department” were unaware of the flawed and controversial ATF gun program “Operation Fast and Furious.” “The notion that somehow or other this reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has jumped into the investigation into the 32-year-old gunman who opened fire with an AK 47 in an IHOP in Carson City, Nevada Tuesday morning, killing four people and himself. The Tahoe Daily Tribune reports that more than a dozen FBI agents on Wednesday morning combed through the Mi…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The last of four men –Laguerre Payen — was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court to 25 years in prison for his role in an FBI sting that involved plotting to bomb Bronx synagogues and shoot down U.S. military planes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Specifically, authorities say he was involved…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Medicare fraud, which helps zap government funding for healthcare, was at front center on Wednesday when the Justice Department announced a nationwide crackdown that resulted in charges against 91 people who were involved in roughly $295 million in false billings. Authorities said in Miami alone, 45 people—including a doctor and a…
By David G. Savage Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have been upset at the management at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which authorized a botched sting operation near the Mexican border that put guns in the hands of drug criminals. But Republican leaders, responding to complaints from gun-rights lobbyists, have…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes the Secret Service acts like over-protective parents when it comes to its protectees. Vice President Joe Biden complains in the October issue of Car and Driver Magazine that the Secret Service won’t let him drive around town in his beloved 1967 green Corvette. “The Secret Service won’t let me drive…
