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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI spent more than $500,000 on informants and ignored their crimes to build a racketeering case that has “been on life support” for years, a veteran mob attorney said Monday, the Associated Press reports. During closing arguments for the trial involving La Cosa Nostra under reputed boss Joseph “Uncle Joe” Ligambi,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government spends more money on immigrant enforcement than all other law enforcement agencies combined, the Huffington Post reports. The U.S. spent nearly $18 billion in the 2012 fiscal year on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and US-Visit, an effort to help local authorities identify undocumented immigrants,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former South Texas cop who was charged recently with sexually assaulting an underage girl for seven years previously was a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the Associated Press reports. Jaime Ocanas, 33, used to be assigned at the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande City station. From December 2007 until he was fired Dec….
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, head of the Atlanta ATF Division, is moving on to the Midwest to head up the St. Paul Division, which includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. Sweetow, who began his career with ATF in 1990 in Los Angeles, spent several years assigned in the Arson and Explosives…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Kwame Kilpatrick fidgeted in his chair, sometimes leaning to the left, sometimes smirking, looking worried and shaking his head in disbelief, as he watched ex-close friend Derrick Miller deliver some damaging testimony on the 49th day of trial Monday. Miller, who was part of Kilpatrick’s inner circle at…
Second of a two part series. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Stan Garnett, the District Attorney in Boulder, recently told the people of Colorado that, although he was not morally or philosophically opposed to the death penalty, he had simply concluded that it was too expensive, time consuming, and subject to random application. As…
