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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. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com If you haven’t seen the Oscar-nominated film Winter’s Bone yet, put it on your to-do list. The movie is about a seventeen-year old…
ATF’s Robert Browning to Head Columbus Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Robert J. Browning, Deputy Director of the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center at Quantico, has been named head of ATF’s Columbus, Ohio field division. A 23-year veteran of ATF, Browning worked at Quantico as part of a multi-agency organization responsible for analyzing improvised explosive device (IED) evidence, primarily from…
Va. ATF Agent Under Investigation for Allegedly Stealing Tens of Thousands of Dollars of ATF-Owned Cigarettes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are investigating allegations that an ATF agent in Virginia stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of ATF-owned cigarettes and sold them, according to the Daily Press newspaper. The agent Clifford D. Posey, 43, who is part of the Norfolk, Va. ATF office, has not been charged, but the…
Sentenced at Age 93, Mob Underboss Was Wiseguy’s Wiseguy
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The story line of Colombo family underboss John “Sonny” Franzese, 93, of New York reads something like this: He knew Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. He got booted from the Army in World War II for displaying homicidal tendencies. His son testified against him in trial last year….
Feds Bust 2 Hackers for Stealing Emails from AT&T’s iPad Data Base; Some Famous Names Included
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the most modern of technology comes the most modern of crimes. Two men — one from Arkansas and another from California — were arrested Tuesday and charged in Newark, N.J. with hacking into the AT&T’s servers and stealing emails and personal info of about 120,000 Apple iPad users including such…
Life Tenure for Fed Judges Raises Issues of Senility, Dementia
By Joseph Goldstein Special to ProPublica Judge Richard Owen of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan gathered a group of lawyers in his courtroom in 2007 to discuss the possible leak of sealed documents in a business case. As the hearing got under way, Owen, then 84, asked for someone to explain this newfangled mode…
Atty. Gen. Holder Announces New Professional Misconduct Review Unit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has created a “Professional Misconduct Review Unit” to handle disciplinary actions for career attorneys at the department resulting from Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigations. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., in announcing the new unit on Tuesday, said it will be headed up by Kevin Ohlson,who…