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LA Co Jail — the Target of FBI Probe — is Condemned in ACLU Report
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com LA County Sheriff Lee Bacca won’t be winning any managerial or humanitarian awards any time soon. Ticklethewire.com has reported on Baca before. He has been accused of allowing a culture of violence and inmate abuse run rampant in LA prisons. And the Sheriff previously expressed anger that the FBI smuggled a…
Indianapolis Fed Judge Drops Suit Against FBI Agents
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge in Indianapolis has tossed a lawsuit by a local attorney who claimed FBI agents conspired with the former Delaware County prosecutor to frame him for a crime — namely bribing a witness in a client’s case, according to the Muncie Star Press In July 2010, attorney Michael J….
Sen. Grassley Says FBI/Justice Dept.’s Resistance Likely to Stifle Re-examination of Deadly Anthrax Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You needn’t go to the oddsmakers in Vegas to predict whether the anthrax case will be reopened for a fresh examination. Just ask Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.). Grassley, one of several politicians who have been skeptical of the FBI findings that government scientist Bruce Ivins sent the letters, said it would…
Bill to Name Az Border Facility After Slain Agent Brian Terry Passes Committee
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Congress moved one step closer to naming the Border Patrol station in Bisbee, Az., after slain agent Brian Terry, who was killed in December 2010. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved a bill to name the facility after Terry. The bill was authored by Oversight and Government Reform…
Mass. Democrat Asks Congress to Pay $8.5 Mil to Victims’ Families in Whitey Bulger Murders
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rep. William R. Keating (D-Mass.) is asking Congress to pay the families of two men allegedly killed by James “Whitey’’ Bulger the $8.5 million they were initially awarded by a Boston federal judge, the Boston Globe reported. The Court of Appeals this year tossed out the award on a technicality, saying…
Hedge Fund King Raj Rajaratnam Gets 11 Years for Insider Trading
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam, who became one of the more recent poster childs for greed and corruption on Wall Street, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to 11 years in prison and fined $10 million for insider trading, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. He was also ordered to…
Nine More Charged in Scheme to Defraud Holocaust Victims Fund of Tens of Millions of Dollars
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The massive scandal to rip off a charitable Holocaust fund designed to benefit victims who were persecuted by the Nazis, continued to unravel in N.Y. on Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan announced the arrest of eight more people for being part of a plot to defraud the fund out…
Suburban D.C. Man Accused of Spying for Syria
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the suburbs of D.C., resident Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid was more than just a suburban dweller, at least according to the FBI. Authorities announced this week charges against the 47-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, who lived in Leesburg, Va., and allegedly collected video and audio recordings and other information about people…