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Homeland Security Launches Tests at 2 Airports to Verify Travel of Foreigners
The good news is that Homeland Security is continuing to work on airport security. The question is how effective this will be and how long will it take to carry this effort out nationwide? And so far the airlines have refused to participate in this. By Chris Strohm CongressDaily WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department…
Indicted Chicago Alder. Isaac Carothers Wore FBI Wire
There’s something to be said about tradition in the great city of Chicago. In the last 36 years, 30 sitting or former aldermen have been convicted of crimes. Obviously Alderman Carothers is all about upholding tradition. His father, a former alderman, went to prison in the 1980s for extortion. Viva la tradition. BY NATASHA KORECKI,…
D.C. U.S. Atty. Jeff Taylor Stepping Down
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeff Taylor, who held one of the higher profile U.S. Attorney posts in the nation, is stepping down this Friday. Taylor, 44, who held the post since 2006, oversaw some of the biggest FBI investigations including the deadly anthrax probe. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton had…
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…