By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Blackwater Worldwide, the target of intense public criticism and an FBI probe into arms smuggling into Iraq, has appointed former undersecretary of Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson to a three-person committee to ensure that it complies with U.S. Export laws. “Our Company has experienced remarkable growth in the last few years,” Erik…
This “hot kielbasa” didn’t require any mustard. By Associated Press NEW YORK – A Brooklyn butcher shop worker called his specialty “hot kielbasa” _ for snorting, not eating. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the kielbasa was really cocaine _ not the Polish sausage sold in a popular meat market. According to a criminal complaint, the…
Derrick Shepherd, who tried unsuccessfully to unseat Rep. William Jefferson in the last election, could be off to prison. But he could have some info for the feds that could mean more trouble for indicted Rep. William J. Jefferson. By Paul Rioux New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — Derrick Shepherd pleaded guilty to one count…
Sen. Ted Stevens is bringing in the heavy artillery. The latest: testimony from Colin Powell. By Erika Bolstad and Richard Mauer Anchorage Daily News WASHINGTON – One of the nation’s best-known retired Army generals, Colin Powell, described Sen. Ted Stevens in court today as a “trusted individual” and a man with a “sterling” reputation. “He…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a case out of the Sopranos, the FBI used tape recordings and informants to bust five guys for “conspiring to obstruct” a federal civil lawsuit in Brooklyn. A criminal complaint, unsealed last week, said the civil lawsuit forced Keystone Renovations Corp. to pay a prevailing wage to employees. The company…
NEW ORLEANS –Donald Battiste, a former New Orleans Police Officer was sentenced last week in federal court here to 4 years and 9 months in prison for civil rights violations in connection with the beating and robbery of a man he thought was an itinerant worker, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. It ended up the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As we prepare to usher in a new administration, U.S. Attorneys are heading for safer ground. The latest is U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren in Wichita, Ks., who stepped down this week to be sworn in as Kansas’ newest federal district judge, the Justice Department announced. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marietta Parker will…
The DEA and other law enforcement agencies busted up a number of cells that distributed drugs for a huge Mexican cartel. By Greg Moran San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO – Federal authorities on Wednesday announced the indictments of 35 members of a half-dozen drug-trafficking cells that shuttled drugs north and cash south through Imperial County….
