By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in Los Angeles is offering a bigger than normal reward — $100,000 — for information leading to the arrest of a violent group of bank robbers dubbed the “20 Questions Bandits”. The FBI said Wednesday that agents and police detectives from Ventura, Orange and Los Angeles counties have been…
Jefferson stands next to attorney Robert Trout during sentencing last November /Sketch by Art Lien/NBC News By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep.William Jefferson was hardly a household name — that is until FBI agents found $90,000 in his freezer at his Capitol Hill home on Aug. 3, 2005. In the public’s eye, that seemed to be…
Ulrich Boser, editor of the website The Open Case, could be in for some interesting reading if the FBI doesn’t redact too much. By Ulrich Boser The Open Case What does the FBI have on Ted Kennedy? A lot, apparently. I filed a FOIA to get any documents related to the lion of the Senate…
Nearly everyone has heard about the marked $90,000 in FBI money FBI agents found in Jefferson’s home freezer on Aug. 3, 2005. On Tuesday, jurors saw an FBI video of a government informant handing $100,000 to Jefferson in a brief case. When agents raided the freezer, $10,000 of that payoff was missing. The prosecution hopes…
The feds are interested in this part of the case and have interviewed Sam Zell, owner of the Chicago Tribune. Interestingly, it was the Chicago Sun-Times, the competing newspaper in town that broke this story. Thank goodness for two-newspaper towns. BY NATASHA KORECKI, DAVE MCKINNEY AND DAVID ROEDER Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — Tribune Co. chairman…
Nothing like starting out your new job with a good Washington scandal. By Henri E. Cauvin Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Michael S. Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, said yesterday that there was nothing improper in a payment of more than $37,000 to his sister’s company for work on his…
