By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com Scandal-plagued Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich stood before a packed Chicago news conference Friday and defiantly vowed to remain on the job and fight charges of public corruption leveled at him by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. “I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing,” Blagojevich said. “I will fight, I will fight,…
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In the end, Randy Nowak probably figured out there’s probably better ways to fight the IRS. And maybe cheaper. By Jason Geary THE LEDGER TAMPA, Fla. — Mulberry businessman Randy Nowak was found guilty Thursday of trying to hire a hit man for $20,000 to kill an Internal Revenue Service agent auditing his business. A…
In the Detroit area, home to one of nation’s largest Middle Eastern populations, assistant U.S. Atty. Eric Straus, chief of the criminal and national security division, talks about Iraqi spies, Hezbollah and the city’s public corruption.
YouTube is normally considered a great venue for entertainment. In this case, it cost a university student his freedom. By MITCH STACY Associated Press Writer TAMPA, Fla. — An Egyptian student attending a Florida university was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for making a YouTube video showing would-be terrorists how to turn a…
There’s bad news in lawsuits. And then there’s really bad news. The Secret Service just got the really bad news. By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate judge has ruled that the U.S. Secret Service “made a mockery” of long-standing rules by failing to preserve, concealing and even destroying…
A legendary newspaper source, his identity became the subject of speculation for decades. By Patricia Sullivan and Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as “Deep Throat,” became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died…
This comes under the category of “not good publicity for the bureau.” By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Taxpayers were billed an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay for each FBI agent temporarily posted to Iraq over the course of four years, according to a new Justice Department report. In…
