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Confusion Over ATF Gun Approvals for Manunfacturers
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Washington Times reports that there’s some confusion between gun manufacturers and the ATF. “ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear,” the paper reports, “leading to reliance on a secretive system” where proposed guns are submitted for approval one by one and “judgements are private and, it turns out,…
Military Man with Carry-On Explosives Proclaims Ignorance
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Sgt. 1st Class Trey Scott Atwater, the military man who shut down a Texas airport over the weekend when he tried to carry on explosives to a flight, said he didn’t know the prohibited materials were in his bag, FayObserver reports. Atwater had not used his carry-on bag since bringing it…
FBI Says Man Threatened to Kill Jews and Blacks
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Abraham Foxman, the leader of the Anti-Defamation League leader, may have been targeted by a white supremacist planning to kill Jews and blacks, the FBI said, according to the Jewish news website JTA. Danny Lee Warner, 33, told his wife about the plan before being arrested on Dec. 28 outside of…
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Gets Rare ‘Red State’ Endorsement
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder, a favorite target of Congressional Republicans in the wake of the Fast and Furious debacle in which ATF officials let guns “walk” from Southwestern dealers in the US to drug cartels in Mexico, is getting a rare endorsement from a prominent official in Utah–“perhaps the reddest of…
ATF Agent Was Likely Killed by Friendly Fire, NY Daily News Reports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sadly, investigators believe the off-duty ATF agent who was shot and killed while struggling with a robbery suspect last Saturday at a Long Island pharmacy, was likely shot by friendly fire from a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, the New York Daily News reported, citing unnamed sources. The paper reported that…
Sentences Rise While Crimes Fall, Legal Experts Say
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When William Jefferson was convicted on public corruption charges in 2009, he got hit with a 13-year sentence–the highest prison term a Congressman has ever received. Bernie Madoff, the financial scammer who pleaded guilty in New York in 2009 to running a massive Ponzi scheme, was handed a whopping 150-year sentence….
Three Arrested, One at Large in Illegal Stem Cell “Cure” Scheme
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Three men were arrested in the past ten days for a scheme that involved exploiting the last hopes of the terminally ill, according to a Reuters report. The three men — and a fourth still being pursued by the FBI — were accused of scheming to market stem cells, unapproved by…
Whitey Bulger Prosecutor Named ‘Bostonian of the Year’
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney who made headlines as the lead prosecutor in the case of the infamous crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger and his long-time girlfriend Catherine Greig, has been named “Bostonian of the Year,” by the Boston Globe Magazine, the publication announced in a press release on Friday. The Globe,…