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Mistrial Declared in Detroit Public Corruption Case After One Juror Holds Out on Conviction
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The corruption case against ex-Detroit City Council aide and political consultant Sam Riddle ended in a mistrial Wednesday after one juror refused to convict, the Detroit News reported. The government said it will retry the case. “On the steps of the federal courthouse, angry jurors said the holdout refused to deliberate…
Ooops! TSA Apologizes for Making Boy Take Off Leg Braces at Airport Checkpoint
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Transportation Security Administration has apologized to a boy who was forced to take off his leg braces at the at Philadelphia International Airport, the Associated Press reported. A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist wrote that Camden, N.J., police officer Bob Thomas said the incident happened in March when he and his wife…
TSA to Have Roving Explosive Testers at Airports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch. USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives….
Nail Biting Continues in Detroit: Deliberations Enter 6th Day for Ex-Council Aide to Cong. John Conyer’s Crooked Wife
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The nail biting continues in Detroit where a federal jury on Wednesday is set to enter its sixth day of deliberations in the trial of Sam Riddle, an outspoken former city council aide accused of shaking down business people along with his ex-boss, Council member Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John…
Feds Don’t Want Attys For Right Wing Shock Jock to Mention That he Was an FBI Informant in 2nd Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors will take a second bite out of the apple next month and retry New Jersey right wing shock jock Hal Turner for allegedly threatening three appeals court judges in Chicago through inflammatory comments on his blog. But this time prosecutors are asking the judge to bar Turner’s attorneys from…
Ex-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Doing What He Does Best: Courting Trouble
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Trouble is a constant companion of Ex-D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who is now a city council member. Now the latest. An independent report conducted by attorney William Bennett on behalf of the D.C. City Council has accused Barry of public corruption. The report says Barry secured a $15,000 contract…
Justice Dept. Says NYPD Cops Off the Hook in Racially Charged Fatal Shooting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York City officers involved in the highly controversial fatal shooting of Sean Bell — he was shot 50 times on his wedding day in 2006 — are off the hook. The Justice Department announced Tuesday there was insufficient evidence to file civil rights charges against the officers in the…
Master Hacker of Credit Cards Gets Record 13 Years
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Max Ray Vision’s impressive hacking skills were only equal to his impressive prison sentence: 13 years — the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history, according to the website WIRED. Last Friday in Pittsburgh, a federal judge sent the skilled San Francisco hacker off to prison and ordered him to pay a…