Update: 12 p.m. Friday: The Los Angeles Times reported that all three ICE agents were supervisors, but the gunman was lower ranking. KTLA TV reported that the gunman opened fire during his disciplinary hearing. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One ICE agent was killed and another wounded in a bizarre shootout among agents at a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –– In a federal courtroom in downtown Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man better known as the “Underwear Bomber”, was sentenced Thursday afternoon to life in prison for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009. Rail thin and clad in a white t-shirt and beige…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The feds in the Motown just keep digging a deeper and deeper hole for Kwame Kilpatrick, the ex-mayor Detroit who was once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor.” The Detroit Free Press reports that Kilpatrick and longtime friend Bobby Ferguson were charged Wednesday in a superseding indictment with extortion involving…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legend of Watergate lives on. A book to be released next month, “Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat,” reports that Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The nicknames have become legendary: The Chin, The Dapper Don, Bugsy. Now, there’s a place for them, all under one roof. The New York Times reported on Monday of a $42 million museum in Las Vegas dedicated to the Mob, three stories of a 41,000-square-foot landmark building with 17,000 square feet of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When you’re the mayor and the FBI shows up with a search warrant at your home, you, as Ricky Ricardo used to say, “got some splainin to do.” The FBI and Texas Rangers showed up Tuesday with a search warrant for Art Franco, the mayor of Anthony, Tex., reports the news…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It ain’t the crime of the century. But it can still land you in one heck of a lot of trouble. Ask Alexander D. Alvarez. Alvarez pleaded guilty to the selling and possessing of illegal migratory bird feathers, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. Alvarez, of Atmore, Ala., entered…
