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FBI Releases on Website New Files and Photos on Infamous Bank Robbers Bonnie and Clyde
WASHINGTON — The legend of Bonnie and Clyde lives on 75 years after the infamous couple was gunned down in Louisiana in a law enforcement ambush. The FBI said it is releasing about 1,000 pages of new material including photos from the investigative files of the Dallas FBI office that was recently uncovered while preparing …
Baltimore U.S. Atty. Loses Top Staff to Main Justice
A game of musical chairs has left the Baltimore U.S. Attorneys office with a void or “brain drain”. Such moves may help main Justice, but may not be so good for the Baltimore U.S. Attorney’s office. Then again, it’s not clear if Rosenstein will get to stick around himself as Pres. Obama begins replacing some…
Five Defendants in Dallas Get Serious Prison Time For Support of Hamas
All around the country, Islamic groups have been trying to convince federal law enforcement that organizations like Hamas are Freedom Fighters, not terrorist organizations. They also say the money they donate goes for food and education, not terrorism. Regardless, the State Department has put Hamas on the terrorist list and the result in this case…
New Orleans Fed Jury Sentences Bank Robber to Death for Killing Sheriff’s Deputy
When a law enforcement person is killed a jury’s indignation always seems to be greater. In this case the indignation translated into a death penalty. By Paul Rioux New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — A jury sentenced John Wayne Johnson to death Wednesday for killing an Orleans Parish sheriff’s deputy during a botched Algiers bank…
Feds TKO Nevada Judge
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities delivered a knockout punch to a Las Vegas judge — a boxing judge that is. Judge Paul G. Smith, 65, of Las Vegas, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of unlawfully collecting about $250,000 in Social Security benefits from 1994 to 2005. Seems the good judge…
Ill Sen. Roland Burris Responds to FBI Tape: Denies Buying Senate Seat
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Ex-NYC Police Commisioner Bernie Kerik Re-Indicted on Charges of Lying to White House Officials
The fall from grace has been a hard one. Kerik, who became a superstar in the post 9/11 era, came so close to being part of the Bush administration. Now he’s faces the possibility of going off to prison. Kerik was already indicted on these charges in New York, but they were dropped because the…
Women Filling Some Top Fed Law Enforcement Posts in Balt-Washington Region
Federal law enforcement has come a long way. Here’s some proof. By Tricia Bishop Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — When Ava Cooper-Davis took over the Washington division of the Drug Enforcement Administration in March, she became the fourth woman in the region to head a federal law enforcement agency’s field office, alongside the “special agents in…