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U.S. Atty’s Office Says Chandra Levy Killer Poses “Grave Danger” to Community; Asks for Life Sentence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It hardly comes as a surprise that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking a judge to sentence Chandra Levy’s killer to life in prison without parole. The Washington Post reports that the prosecutors, in asking for a life sentence, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that convicted killer…
FBI Agents Nab New England Mobster in Idaho After 17 Years on the Lam
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After changing his name and being on the lam for 17 years, the FBI on Monday nabbed suspected New England mobster Enrico Ponzo in Idaho, the Boston Herald reported. The paper reported that Ponzo, 42, — suspected of being part of New England’s Patriarca Family –faces a host of charges including…
Some Scratch Head: Wonder Why R.I. Fed Prosecutors Were Left Out of Loop on Major Drug Bust Linked to Mexican Cartels
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The unusual circumstances warranted this headline in the Providence Journal on Wednesday: “U.S. Prosecutors Left in the Cold on Drug Bust.” The paper reported that when state police and DEA agents in Providence, R.I., last week announced the seizure of 145 pounds of cocaine, $1.2 million in cash and the arrest…
13 States Ask Justice Dept. to Help Find Execution Drug
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — States around the country are turning to the Justice Department for help in locating an execution drug, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that 13 states signed a letter sent to the Justice Department asking for help scoring sodium thiopental after the only U.S. manufacturer stopped producing it and…
More than Embarrassing: Nevada Fed Prosecutor’s Ex-Husband Steals More than $3.7 Mil
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Call it more than a little embarrassing when you’re an official in a U.S. Attorney’s Office and your ex-husband gets caught stealing more than $3.7 million. Well, that’s just exactly what happened to Sudabeh Fahami, deputy chief in charge of the U.S. Attorney’s Office branch in Reno, Nev., according to the…
FBI Agent Warns Business Sector of Theft of Trade Secrets
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In the most appropriate of places — the International Spy Museum in Washington — FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kevin Moberly of the Economic Espionage Unit on Tuesday addressed a group of business people about the theft of corporate secrets. “Who’s the target…? Pretty much everybody,” he told the group…
Blago Attys Claim FBI Tape of Rahm Emanuel Missing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He’s back. Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich — a man who never saw a microphone he didn’t like — has filed a pretrial motion seeking what he says is missing evidence including records of a phone call between Blagojevich aide John Harris and then White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the…
Ouch! Calif. Secret Service Agent on Nancy Reagan Detail Shoots Himself at Gun Range
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The lion’s share of Secret Service agents on protective details go an entire career without getting shot. Then there’s one of the Secret Service agents who protects Nancy Reagan. The Associated Press reports that the agent accidentally shot himself in the hip Friday at the Ventura County, Calif. Sheriff’s Department shooting…