William Jefferson Reports to Texas Prison

Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The inevitable has arrived. Ex-Rep. William Jefferson of cash-in-the-freezer fame is heading off to prison Friday in Beaumont, Tex.  to begin serving his 13-year sentence, Bruce Alpert, star reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. He was sentenced 2 1/2 years ago, but stayed out of prison pending his appeal.  In March,…

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Terrorism and the American Dream: Part III

  The final of three installments on an immigrant who was wrongly convicted of terrorism in Detroit and how he went on to live the American dream. In case you missed the first two articles of this series, you can find those here, Terrorism and the American Dream: Part I Terrorism and the American Dream:…

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3 ICE Agents Shot and Wounded in San Francisco Area

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Incidents like this remind us of the dangers of being in law enforcement. Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot and wounded Thursday morning around 4 a.m. while executing a search warrant in Petaluma, outside of San Francisco, reported KABC. The agents suffered non-life threatening wounds, the station reported. The…

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