Breaking News: Gov. Blagojevich Says He’s Innocent and Will Fight “Until I Take My Last Breath”
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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Fla. Businessman Convicted of Hiring Hitman to Kill IRS Agent
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…
Iraqi Spies in Motown And More
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.
Egyptian Student Gets 15 Years For Making Terrorist-Related YouTube Video
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…
Judge Sanctions Secret Service in Racial Discrimination Suit
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…
Legendary FBI Agent Mark Felt — aka “Deep Throat” — Dies at 95
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…