By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Connecticut man has been busted for posing as a DEA agent selling confiscated property. Local authorities alleged that Jeffrey Guadalupe, 30, of Red Oak, Conn., with posing as an agent and scamming a Bridgeport, Conn. city employee and his elderly mother out of $20,000, according to the Connecticut Post. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Philadelphia man has been charged with threatening to shoot Sen. Joe Lieberman, NBC Connecticut reported. Authorities alleged that Dmitry Dyatlov, 23, a U.S. citizen who came from Uzbekistan in 1998, wrote on a blog: “Actually, there is , at least, one Jew, who we absolutely must shoot in the face…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the first time since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, a federal jury in Connecticut has voted to impose the death penalty. A federal jury in New Haven, Conn. voted Wednesday to unanimously condemn drug dealer Azibo Aquart, 30, of Bridgeport, Conn. to death for murdering three Bridgeport…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The big Wall Street folks with lots of money could soon be trading in those $3,000 tailored wool suits for orange jumpsuits in what promises to be a full blown, major scandal. F.B.I. agents on Monday raided offices of three hedge funds as part of an escalating probe into insider trading…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday gave the final nod to Zane D. Memeger to become U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia and David Fein to become the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut. Memeger replaces interim U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy, who had been in that position since 2009. Levy will work for…
