By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lawyers for ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards have a lot reasons to want to delay Edwards’ trial October trial — or so they say. The Associated Press reports that lawyers filed a motion Wednesday asking for the delay so they could have more time to review 400,000 documents produced by prosecutors. Edwards…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com OYE! A man who billed himself as the “Jewish Indiana Jones”, and was the co-founder of “Save a Torah” charity, was arrested Wednesday by federal authorities on charges of defrauding donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan announced. Authorities alleged that Manachem Youlus purported to…
By Adam Goldman Associated Press. In New Brunswick, N.J., a building superintendent opened the door to apartment No. 1076 one balmy Tuesday and discovered an alarming scene: terrorist literature strewn about the table and computer and surveillance equipment set up in the next room. The panicked superintendent dialed 911, sending police and the FBI rushing…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Thirty two people were busted– including 13 doctors — in what the head of the Miami FBI described as “the nation’s largest criminal organization involved in the illegal distribution of pain killers.” The bust capped a three-year investigation dubbed “Operation Oxy Alley” that netted the players tens of millions of dollars…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The legal battle is heating up over an ATF regulation requiring gun dealers in states that border Mexico to report multiple gun sales of semi-automatic rifles capable of using detachable magazines. The latest: The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), which has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in D.C. opposing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More often than not politicians have been the beneficiary of mysterious letters with white powder. This time it was the flip late night talk show host Craig Ferguson who got one of those letters. The Associated Press reports that the FBI is working with police to determine who sent a threatening…
Mobster sought FBI protection from state investigators: MyFoxBOSTON.com
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been more likely to be hunting for potential threats to national security than for ordinary criminals in recent years, but much of the time found neither, according to newly disclosed internal information. Data from a recent two-year period showed…
