By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Massey Energy Chief Executive Officer Don Blankenship, 66, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Charleston, W. Va., to one year in prison and fined $250,000 for conspiracy to violate mine health and safety standards in West Virginia where 29 miners were killed in a coal dust explosion six years…
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Bentley-driving preacher on 13 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and lying to the FBI.
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — A new motion filed on behalf of convicted felon Kwame Kilpatrick indicates that he thinks he has plenty appealable issues and is innocent of the 24 criminal counts he was convicted of in March. It also talks about how he damaged his knee while getting into a U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No suprise: Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich won’t ride off into the sunset — or head to prison — quitely. The Chicago Tribune reported that Blagojevich, who was convicted last month of 17 of 20 public corruption charges in his retrial, filed a motion Monday for a retrial, alleging judicial bias and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A former office manager for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy could be off to prison. A federal jury in Washington on Tuesday convicted Ngozi T. Pole, 40,of Waldorf, Md., of stealing more than $75,000 by paying himself unauthorized bonuses, the Justice Department said. Specifically, he was convicted of five…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Guyanese men were convicted Monday in Brooklyn federal court of plotting to blow up JFK Airport by exploding fuel tanks and fuel pipelines underneath the airport, authorities said. Following a six-week trial, the federal jury convicted Russell Defreitas, a naturalized citizen from Guyana, and Abdul Kadir. Authorities had been watching…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently you can’t keep a good crooked politician down. Ex-Ohio Congressman James Traficant, who served seven years in prison after being convicted on public corruption charges, and was notorious for sporting a bad toupee, filed papers Monday to run in the 17th Congressional district in Ohio, a seat currently held by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors in El Paso want FBI agent John Thomas Shipley, who was convicted this month of dealing weapons without a license and lying to ATF agents about the sales, to forfeit 17 weapons, a silencer, ammunition and $7,340 in cash found in his home. Authorities filed a motion last week…
