By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sadly, investigators believe the off-duty ATF agent who was shot and killed while struggling with a robbery suspect last Saturday at a Long Island pharmacy, was likely shot by friendly fire from a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, the New York Daily News reported, citing unnamed sources. The paper reported that…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When William Jefferson was convicted on public corruption charges in 2009, he got hit with a 13-year sentence–the highest prison term a Congressman has ever received. Bernie Madoff, the financial scammer who pleaded guilty in New York in 2009 to running a massive Ponzi scheme, was handed a whopping 150-year sentence….
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Three men were arrested in the past ten days for a scheme that involved exploiting the last hopes of the terminally ill, according to a Reuters report. The three men — and a fourth still being pursued by the FBI — were accused of scheming to market stem cells, unapproved by…
