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Investigation: Border Patrol Investigations of Agent-Involved Shootings are shoddy
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Border Patrol agents rarely are held accountable over shootings, and investigations are done in the dark, an Arizona Daily Star investigation has found. In one case, the newspaper wrote that one agent-involved shooting has remained secret and ongoing for three years Scrutiny on the federal agency is increasing after several well-publicized…
Justice Department Probes School District Over Alleged School-to-Prison Pipeline
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is investigating a Mississippi school district that is accused of sending predominately black and disabled children to jail without probable cause for minor offenses, the Associated Press reports. A suit filed by the Justice Department said jail is used as “a medium for school discipline,” the AP reported. The…
The Justice Department is Investigating Wrongful Conviction of Englewood 4
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four teenagers were convicted of murdering a 30-year-old Chicago woman and sent to prison in 1994. After evidence surfaced that the teens were innocent, the prosecutor’s office earlier this year released them. Now the Justice Department wants to know how and why the four teens were convicted, the Associated Press reports. Cook…
Editorial: Homeland Security Grants Misspent, Steered Away from Terrorism
Ediotial New York Times It was no surprise that a fierce budget hawk like Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, pounced on ridiculous grants doled out by the Department of Homeland Security supposedly to help local police and fire departments prepare for terrorist attacks. Mr. Coburn’s recent report on the department’s decade-long, $7 billion program,…
FBI Raids Indiana Home of Former Jets Offensive Lineman
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents raided the home of former Jets offensive tackle Jason Fabini last Thursday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Fabini, 38, denied any wrongdoing after agents were seen removing boxes from his home in Fort Wayne, Ind. “I am not the target of the investigation and I was not involved…
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New Orleans U.S. Attorneys Falls in Online Scandal
By NOLA.com The Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — Abruptly ending an 11-year run highlighted by the convictions of more than a dozen crooked politicians, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten resigned Thursday morning amid a metastasizing scandal in his office that started with prosecutors posting anonymous screeds on NOLA.com. Letten was the nation’s longest-serving U.S. attorney, having been…