By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After three days of deliberations, a federal jury in Seattle last week convicted an IRS agent of soliciting and accepting a bribe. Paul G. Hurley, 43, of Seattle, was convicted on two felony counts on Friday. Sentencing is set for May 13. According to testimony at trial and records filed in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI informant who provided vital information about an alleged bribe to get a state senator on the New York City mayoral ballot has his own troubles, NBC 4 New York reports. NBC 4 identified the informant as real estate developer Moses Stern, 40, who is accused of orchestrating a fraudulent real…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — At this point it would be hard to tarnish the reputation of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But the feds heaped on some more serious allegations to his already pending public corruption charges. The Detroit News reports that new court filings in fed court in Detroit allege that Kilpatrick took a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A California attorney thought he’d make some extra cash by getting his client to lie before a grand jury in Los Angeles in a visa fraud case. Now he won’t need that cash when he heads off to prison. Alfred Nash Villalobos, 46, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was found guilty…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Twin brothers pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington to trying to bribe two D.C. police officers to get a heroin case dismissed in the city court. Larry and Garry Moody, 39, both of Washington, who ended up being busted in an FBI sting, are set to be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT –Could it be ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of sex-text message fame, who has already served time for obstruction of justice in state court, could face far more serious charges in federal court? The Detroit Free Press reports that “a contractor who pleaded guilty in an ongoing corruption probe in Detroit…
Councilman Jim Graham It doesn’t sound like the guy got enough money to risk career and go to jail. But who can always understand human nature? The FBI used an informant in this case who wore a wire. After taking a $500 bribe in July, council aide Ted Loza explained why he took it: “You…
The older brother Mose Jefferson now takes center stage in a federal courtroom after his brother ex-Rep. William Jefferson. The trial not only does not speak well for New Orleans, but for the Jefferson family, which has been the subject of years of FBI investigations. Mose Jefferson is accused of bribing a school board member….
