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FBI Crime Lab Chemist Testified That He Was Told to Ignore Real Findings
By Spencer S. Hsu, Jennifer Jenkins and Ted Mellnik The Washington Post WASHINGTON — The bombshell came at the most inopportune time. An FBI special agent was testifying in the government’s high-profile terrorism trial against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “blind sheik” suspected of plotting the first attack on the World Trade Center. Frederic Whitehurst, a…
Blogger Suggests FBI Has More Info on Decades-old Cop-Killer Case
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Blogger Micah Morrison seeks justice in a decades old cop-killer case, and wants the FBI to reveal any hidden cards. Last weekend marked 40 years since Police Officer Phillip Cardillo was shot and killed in Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, reports Micah Morrison for the NY Daily…
3 Convictions for Violation of Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Fourteen years after its namesake’s murders, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is being used to hold three men accountable for hate-fueled violence in Houston. Three defendants flush with white-supremacist tattoos were convicted Monday in Texas of hate crimes for the violent beating of an African-American man….
Justice Dept. Knew of Flawed Forensic Work; Innocent People May Have Been Convicted
By Spencer S. Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people nationwide, but prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys even in many cases they knew were troubled. Officials started reviewing the cases in the…
TSA Officer Pleads to Taking Bribes to Let Drugs Pass Through
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A TSA officer based at Palm Beach, Fla. International Airport pleaded guilty Monday to taking bribes to let drugs pass through airport security. Christopher Allen, 46, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Have, Conn. to taking payments from a drug…
FBI Hunts for Killer in Coast Guard Slaying in Alaska
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A murder mystery in Alaska has set the FBI off on a hunt. Reuters reports that FBI agents are trying to determine who fatally shot two U.S. Coast Guard employees last week at a communications station on Alaska’s Kodiak Island. “No arrests have been made in connection with the shootings,” FBI…
Second Trial Against Baseball Star Roger Clemens Begins on Monday
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors in D.C. will get a second chance on Monday to try and convict baseball great Roger Clemens of lying to Congress about using performance enhancing drugs after the screwing up big time the first time around. Jury selection begins Monday in D.C. federal court, just blocks from the Capitol….