White House catches a break in U.S. Attorney firings. By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court declined yesterday to order current and former White House aides to testify before a House committee about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, leaving the next Congress to decide how aggressively to pursue…
It’s not often that organized crime and hospice care are mentioned in the same breath. Now comes a case in Philadelphia. By Kitty Caparella Philadelphia Daily News PHILADELPHIA — The FBI’s organized-crime squad is investigating a Russian group for alleged Medicare fraud at the Home Care Hospice Inc. in the Northeast. At stake is $8.5…
Several days of digging for mobster bodies may have paid off. By Robert E. Kessler and Carl Macgowan Newsday EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — FBI agents and personnel from the New York City medical examiner’s office believe they found the remains of a human body yesterday at an East Farmingdale location that an informant told them…
Four staffers for Rep. William Jefferson will have to take a field trip to Alexandria, Va., where their boss will stand trial on public corruption charges. It’s a trip, in all likelihood, they’d rather not take. By Bruce Alpert New Orleans Times-Picayune WASHINGTON — Four staffers for Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, have been subpoenaed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The exchanges between opposing sides in the Sen. Ted Stevens federal trial continued to heat up yesterday with the government calling the defense’s attacks “baseless.” “In their third attack on the government in one week, the defense continues to engage in baseless speculation regarding the government’s motives and conduct,”…
The Associated Press has obtained FBI records of Evel Knievel, which show that the agency was investigating him in connection with a crime syndicate. Nothing came of it. By Sarah Larimer Associated Press Writer MIAMI — Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law – the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them. But…
Sentencing has been delayed for Tony Rezko, whose name has popped up in connection with Presidential candidate Barack Obama. The delay could save Obama embarrassing attention before the Nov. 4 election. By Jeff Coen Chicago Tribune reporter CHICAGO — In the first official sign that Antoin “Tony” Rezko and his lawyers are talking with federal…
Sen. Stevens buddy may have been chatting him up, but the senator had no idea his friend was working with the FBI, recording the conversations. By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Jurors heard secretly recorded telephone conversations yesterday in which Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) told a chief prosecution witness that the…
