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Judges Urged to Suspend Fed Prosecutor’s License for Withholding Info
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston is battling for his career. The state Office of Bar Counsel in Massachusetts urged a three judge panel on Thursday to suspend Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn’s license for at least two years, claiming he deliberately withheld evidence in a high-profile Mafia case in the…
FBI Asks for Delay in Release of Anthrax Report by National Academy of Sciences
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy surrounding the conclusion of the anthrax investigation is surfacing again. The New York Times reports that the FBI has requested a last minute delay in the release of an independent scientific report by the National Academy of Sciences. The delay prompted Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.), a critic of…
Prosecutor Drops Remaining Charges Against Miss. FBI Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agent Hal Neilson is no longer in trouble. Federal prosecutor Richard Bourgeois on Wednesday dismissed three remaining counts the jury deadlocked on on Nov. 20, the Northeast Mississippi Journal reported. The prosecutor indicated that U.S. can no longer “meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt.” Neilson, 49,…
Fed Jury Convicts 3 New Orleans Cop in Case Involving Murder and Burning of Body
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury on Thursday convicted three New Orleans cops in the Post-Katrina fatal shooting of citizen Henry Glover and the burning of his body and the cover up, the Justice Department announced. Two other cops were acquitted. The jury found former New Orleans cop David Warren was guilty of a…
Fed Cop For Homeland Sec. Gets 18 Months for Making Illegal Traffic Stops
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal cop for Homeland Security was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison for making illegal traffic stops and illegally detaining people in Georgia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta announced. Stephen G. House, 53, of Silver Creek, Ga., a law enforcement and security officer for the Federal Protective Service…
Atty. Gen. Holder Asks Senate Leaders to Reject Ban on Gitmo Moves
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. fired off a letter Thursday to Senate leaders urging them not to pass legislation blocking the administration from moving Guantanamo terrorist suspects to U.S. soil. “This provision goes well beyond existing law and would unwisely restrict the ability of the Executive branch to prosecute alleged terrorists…
The History of the First Joint Terrorism Task Force that Began in NY
Joe Valiquette is a retired FBI supervisory special agent and J. Peter Donald is a public affairs specialist for the FBI in New York. This is the first of a three part series written for the FBI. By Joe Valiquette and J. Peter Donald Thirty years ago, in the heart of New York City, on…