By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who the heck is William G. Hillar? Well, if you read his online bio you’d see that he had some darn impressive credentials in the military, had a Ph.d and he’s been raking in cash teaching, conducting workshops and giving speech. Problem is, federal authorities say, he’s a fraud. On Tuesday,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man dubbed the “Underwear Bomber” will go on trial on Oct. 4, Reuters news service reported. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds set the trial in October despite requests the suspected bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that the proceedings begin later in the year or early next year. Addulmutallab fired his court-appointed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which claimed the lives of 224 people and wounded thousands. Ghailani, 36, is the first ex-Gitmo detainee to be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former head of the Detroit Highwaymen Motorcycle club got hit with a 37 year prison sentence on Monday in U.S. District Court in downtown Detroit. Aref “Scarface” Nagi, 46, was convicted last year on a variety of charges, including conspiracy to violate federal racketeering laws and conspiracy to commit murder,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA on Tuesday released a touching photo taken last September which showed its Chief of Operations Thomas Harrigan holding a baby of Forrest Leamon, one of three DEA agents killed in a U.S. military helicopter crash on Oct. 26, 2009. The baby, Luke Leamon, was born on April…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. has issued a memo calling for a temporary hiring freeze for all Justice Department employees at least until spring, saying the federal government is “facing unprecedented budget challenges”, ABC News reported. “I anticipate revisiting the Department’s hiring and staff situation in the spring, once we know…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 48-year-old administrative officer for the DEA has been indicted in Minneapolis for producing child pornography involving a 15-year-old boy. Scott James Whitcomb of Zimmerman, Minn., was indicted Thursday in federal court and charged with coercing a 15-year-old boy into engaging in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing pornography,…
