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Ex-Lobbyist Prime Candidate For Va. U.S. Atty
President Obama rode into town on an anti-lobby crusade. Will he now appoint a lobbyist for the U.S. Attorney job in Virginia and risk creating controversy? Then again, the guy is currently employed by the Justice Department. So how big of a risk is it? By Jerry Markon and Meg Smith Washington Post Staff Writers…
Phoenix FBI Agent Pleads Guility to Having an Affair With the Wife of a Man He Was Investigating
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The libido of an FBI agent in Phoenix is likely to land him in prison. Agent Joe L. Gordwin, 40, of Phoenix pleaded guilty earlier this week in U.S. District Court to wire fraud charges for carrying on an improper sexual relationship with the wife of a criminal he was investigating,…
Baseball Shortstop Miguel Tejada Gets Probaton for Lying to Congress
As expected, and as recommended by the prosecution, Miguel Tejada got probation. It’s probably the right call this time. By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Former Baltimore Orioles shortstop Miguel Tejada today was sentenced to one year of probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for…
“Goodfellas” Mobster Gets Probation for Public Intoxication
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Henry Hill, the New York mobster who inspired the Martin Scorcese film “Goodfellas”, has been sentenced to two years probation after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of public intoxication, the Associated Press reported. Hill, 65, a mobster turned informant, got credit for four days served and was fined $220 in…
Things We Still Don’t Know About Airport Security on 9/11
As Andrew Cochran points out, there’s so much we still don’t know about what happened on 9/11. Time for some of that transparency the Obama administration has promised. By Andrew Cochran Counterterrorism Blog Here is what we still don’t know, over seven years after the 9/11 attacks, about airline and airport security on that day:…
Florida Fed Prosecutors Want to Limit Wesley Snipe’s International Party Plans
Wesley Snipes is simply a party animal. But federal prosecutors want to put a clamp on that partying — at least when it comes to overseas parties. By The Associated Press Prosecutors in Florida want a judge to restrict actor Wesley Snipes’ international travel because they say he attended a lavish party in Dubai while…
BIO: Homeland Sec. Napolitano Rose to Prominence As Anita Hill’s Lawyer
Read the stats on the new Secretary of Homeland Security and it comes as no surprise she’s risen to top. By AllGov Janet Napolitano does not shy away from tough fights, having first risen to prominence as Anita Hill’s attorney during the Clarence Thomas controversy, and later as a Democratic governor of a very Republican…
DEA Busts San Francisco Medical Marijuana Center Despite Administration’s New Policy
Here’s an interesting development. The Obama Administration has made it clear that it would no longer bust legal medical marijuana dispensaries. Was that too broad of a policy statement or have some people just not gotten the memo? By Rachel Gordon San Francisco Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO — Federal agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in…