By NOLA.com The Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — Abruptly ending an 11-year run highlighted by the convictions of more than a dozen crooked politicians, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten resigned Thursday morning amid a metastasizing scandal in his office that started with prosecutors posting anonymous screeds on NOLA.com. Letten was the nation’s longest-serving U.S. attorney, having been…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eight months after being nominated, Terrence Berg, the former interim U.S. Attorney in Detroit, was confirmed Thursday by the U.S. Senate for a U.S. District Court judgeship in Detroit, the Detroit Free Press reports. Berg had been waiting for Senate approval since President Obama nominated him to the seat in April. Berg…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, who was arrested in September for allegedly extorting bribes from a parking garage developer, is now under fire for carpeting contracts in former city libraries, the Trenton Times reports. The FBI became suspicious of the carpeting contract after questions were raised in newspapers about Mack’s decision to bypass…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent fired his weapon 10 times at the driver of a car that hit him during a drug raid in Southern California, an autopsy released Thursday shows, the Associated Press reports. Agent Justin Tackett, who had been suspended four times for misconduct during nearly four years of working as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Officials worry that cuts to the Border Patrol budget will weaken protection from drug smugglers and human traffickers, the Kansas City Star reports. The cuts will go into effect unless President Obama and Congress can reach a compromise soon to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the Star wrote. Some experts said the…
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