By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former state Assemblyman Joe Errigo, who faces bribery charges, started wearing an FBI wire after he was approached by the FBI, NBC News 10 reports. NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean confirmed the information with two unnamed sources. Errigo is charged with taking money in exchange for sponsoring a piece of…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors said FBI agents did not violate the law by tracking a New York assemblyman using cell phone tower data, The Times-Union reports. Assemblyman William Scarborough had no reasonable expectation of privacy because he was using a cell tower, which prosecutors argued is essentially a business record. The Queens Democrat…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com You can see why former Jersey City assemblyman Louis Manzo thought he might try his luck once more. But this time the only luck he had was bad luck. The Jersey Journal reports that Manzo lost his bid for reimbursement of $150k worth of legal fees paid over the course of a…
