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Parker: U.S. Attorney Joe Hayes, A Contributor to the Rule of Law (1940-2013)
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008″. By…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Los Angeles Mob
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FBI, Justice Department Urged to Re-Open 1985 Pipe Bombing of Arab American Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Civil rights supporters are calling for the FBI and Justice Department to reopen the investigation into the 1985 killing of a prominent Palestinian American leader, Democracy Now reports. Alex Odeh was killed by a powerful pipe bomb placed at the offices of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination in Santa Ana, Calif., where he served…
Attorneys for Aurora Theater Shooting Suspect Question Police Handling of Case
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes are trying to convince a judge to restrict some evidence from being used at trial because of the police’s handling of the investigation, ABC 7 in Denver reported. One of the issues is why police continued to talk to Holmes after his attorney advised…
President Obama to Nominate Jeh C. Johnson As Next Homeland Security Secretary
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If President Obama gets his way, Jeh C. Johnson will be the next secretary of the Homeland Security Department, the New York Times reports. Obama plans to soon nominate Johnson, who worked on many of the administration’s national security policies while he was the Defense Department’s general counsel. Johnson, 56, would replace…
Convicted Felon Shows Off on Facebook with Guns, Leading to Arrests
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hollis Nunnery didn’t let the fact that he was a convicted felon get in the way of posting pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook, WoodTV.com reports. Nunnery also happened to be the focus of an FBI investigation into bank robberies. After spotting Nunnery holding a large handgun with a laster site,…
Justice Delayed? Four U.S. Security Contractors Charged in 2007 Baghdad Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four years after a judge dismissed the case, four former Blackwater security contractors were charged Thursday in the 2007 attack on Iraqi civilians in which 17 people were killed, Time reports. The men, who were hired to guard U.S. diplomats, are accused of using machine guns and grenades at a Baghdad Square…