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THE BIG FOUR: ROADS, TAXES, SCHOOLS Replica Hermes Birkin Bag Knockoff Hermes Bag, HEALTH CARE Roads and bridges: The $320 million package cruised the Capitol in various forms for more than a month before lawmakers finally gave it the green light. Its chances seemed to improve almost daily as winter’s apparent toll worsened. All but…
Head of Secret Service Denies Culture of Misconduct
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Chicago U.S. Atty. Pat Fitzgerald Resigning
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Patrick Fiztgerald, the Chicago U.S. Attorney who was considered a rock star among fed prosecutors, and who went after Scooter Libby in Washington and Rod Blagojevich closer to home, is resigning. His office issued a press release on Wednesday saying he was resigning on June 30 and had no immediate employment…
West Africa Looms Large in Baltimore Heroin-Trafficking Cases
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — Last April, thousands of miles from Baltimore in the West African country of Ghana, a man known as “Wagba” got on the phone and mediated a Baltimore heroin-dealing dispute. Nana Boateng, who supplied Baltimore dealers with heroin shipped under Wagba’s direction by couriers traveling to the United…
Chipotle Mexican Grill Under Federal Investigation for Hiring Illegals
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com That authentic Mexican vibe at the popular higher-end fast food chain Chipotle seems authentic for a reason… and that reason may be the authentic undocumented Mexicans working there. According to Fox News, Chipotle is getting it from all sides, having already been targeted by the feds for hiring illegals. Now comes this: Fox…
Republican Congressmen Demand Whitehouse be Included in Leak Investigation
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Could White House officials have accidentally leaked news that tripped up a Western intelligence operation targeting Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen? Two Republican congressional leaders want the formal FBI inquiry to answer that question, reports Reuters. Monday, Rep Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to…
Four Secret Service Agents Fired in Sex Scandal Object Dismissals
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Four of the Secret Service agents fired in the recent Colombian sex scandal are fighting their dismissals, screams today’s front-page headline of the Washington Post. Above the fold. For agents who already object to the agency’s handling of the incident, more public humiliation can’t help. The dismissed agents say they are being…
Column: Time to Set Teen Drug Dealer Free After 25 Years; Retired FBI Agent Pushes for Release
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On any ordinary day, Richard Wershe Jr. sleeps in and skips breakfast in his prison in northern Michigan. But on Tuesday — the 25th anniversary of his arrest in Detroit – he couldn’t sleep, so he grabbed some oatmeal with skim milk. “I probably slept two hours,”…