By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the guy who had an acute case of rambling on and on, may be a bit more careful now that he’s behind bars. The Illinois governor, aka “Blago”, reported to prison Thursday morning at the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood in suburban Denver, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Now Blago…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A fed jury on Thursday issued a superseding indictment charging a New Orleans man with the murder of five people, one of whom was an off-duty New Orleans cop. Steven Earl Hardrick, 27, was charged with violations of the federal controlled substances act and federal firearms laws, carjacking, witness tampering and…
By ASHTON MARRA ABC News Whether you prefer Do-Si-Dos or Thin Mints, almost everyone loves a Girl Scout cookie, but the annual fundraiser has created a spike in crime across the country this year that has even the Secret Service stepping in. At least two troops on opposite sides of the U.S. have received counterfeit…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier could come back to haunt us here in the homeland. CNN reports that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security put out a bulletin on Wednesday issuing that warning, saying “there is currently no specific, credible threat information” but that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The young man who will be forever known as the “Underwear Bomber” caught a little bit of break. The Detroit News reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who admitted trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day of 2009, was transferred Tuesday to a federal prison complex…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The conclusion in an independent report released Thursday on the bungled prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Steven is anything but surprising: The Prosecution screwed up big time. Talking Points Memo’s Ryan J. Reilly reports that the voluminous report concludes that the Justice Department prosecutors engaged in “systematic concealment”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The new head of the Houston DEA knows a thing or two about drug cartels. Javier Pena, whose new turf includes the Mexican border, helped hunt down the infamous Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the Associated Press reports. In fact, AP reported that Pena has a photo of a Colombian…
