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Ex-Suburban D.C. County Executive Gets 7-Plus Years in Prison For Bribery
Jack Johnson/wusa By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Jack Johnson, a former county executive in suburban D.C., who was caught on a phone wiretap directing his wife inside their home to destroy evidence while FBI agents stood at the door, was sentenced Tuesday in Maryland federal court to 7 years and 3 months in prison and…
Judge Zagel: Blago Set and Sought Senate Seat Price
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday faced the first of two days of hearings for his sentencing on public corruption charges. The usually chatty ex-governor had walked quietly out of his home earlier in the morning and into the courtroom via a passage blocked off to the media he once revelled in, a…
Why Aren’t the Bankers in Trouble?
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In the wake of the financial sector’s meltdown, many were on the hunt for the blood of bankers. But convictions for wrongdoing on Wall Street have been remarkably scarce in the aftermath of the industry’s collapse–no small part of why Occupy Wall Street protestors have gathered in lower Manhattan. A Wall…
Member of Michigan Militia That Plotted to Kill Cops Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A member of a southeast Michigan militia known as “Hutaree” pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a plot to use explosives against local and fed law enforcement, the Detroit Free Press reported. Joshua Clough admitted guilt on the same day an FBI report on the group was released. The report…
FBI Search Airplane After Bomb Note Found in Bathroom
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Agents were summoned to Boston’s Logan Airport on Sunday as an inbound flight from London landed and a “suspicious note” mentioning a bomb was found by a flight attendent, reports Boston.com. FBI agents, police and k-9 units searched the plane along with its 200 passengers and 16 crew members when the…
Column: Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley: Americans’ Rights at Risk
By Coleen Rowley, former FBI Agent ConsortiumNews.com The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our Constitutional Republic into a powerful, unaccountable Military Empire. The U.S. Senate has just voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012, which allows the military to operate…
Hedge Funder Employees Charged in FBI Sting; Agent Pretended to Represent Major Fund
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Hard to believe there is corruption in the hedge fund industry, aye? An FBI sting has resulted in charges against 11 people with ties to hedge fund companies, plus two “finders,” the finance website FINalternatives.com. An FBI agent posed as a representative of a major hedge fund, operating from an office…
Rep Darrell Issa May Recommend that ATF be Folded Into the FBI
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who has led the crusade against Attorney General Eric Holder during the Fast and Furious investigations, said he may recommend merging ATF into the FBI, Bloomberg reports. “ATF, perhaps, should be molded completely into the FBI and…