March 8, 2019

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III,  a curmudgeonly fellow who’s not shy about speaking his mind, defended his sentencing Thursday of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. He gave him 48 months, far less than the 20 years Manafort faced under sentencing guidelines. Speaking before a packed courtroom in Alexandria, Va., he…

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 49-year-old San Jose man is charged with impersonating a DEA agent after he allegedly donned a gold badge and used a Volkswagen Jetta equipped with police lights to stop drivers, including an actual government official, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Authorities arrested Alex E. Taylor last weekend outside his…

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson is expressing frustration about efforts to locate her husband and bring him back home. He vanished in 2007 while on an unauthorized mission in Iran for the CIA. Christine Levinson told a House panel Thursday that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance…