By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s travels through the federal court system came to an end on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment his request to appeal his conviction. A federal jury in 2013 convicted Kilpatrick, 46, of public corruption charges. He was sentenced to 28 years in…
The FBI’s physical fitness test has different standards for men and women.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents did not commit “outrageous” misconduct by luring suspects into a robbery of a fictitious drug house, a federal appellate panel ruled Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The decision reverses a district court judge’s earlier ruling that the suspects’ due process rights were violated when the ATF enticed them…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s attempt to maintain a criminal conviction against retired baseball slugger Barry Bonds is a swing and miss, several U.S. appeals court judges ruled. Reuters reports that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had serious doubts that Bonds’ testimony about steroids amounted to a crime. “I find your reading…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Even in death, his legal battle continues. The JTA News Service reports that attorneys for deceased Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk are trying to restore his U.S. citizenship. They’ve asked a U.S. appeals court to restore his status posthumously. Demjanjuk, a former Cleveland area autoworker, died in Germany in March at age 91….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Payday may be getting closer for families who had relatives who fell victim to Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court has upheld multi-million dollar judgments against the government in the deaths of three people supposedly murdered by Bulger, who sits behind bars now…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s been six years since FBI agents raided ex-Congressman William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill home and found $90,000 in his freezer, and more than two years since he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for bribery and other public corruption charges. Still, the 64-year-old New Orleans politician, who lost Jefferson a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rep. William R. Keating (D-Mass.) is asking Congress to pay the families of two men allegedly killed by James “Whitey’’ Bulger the $8.5 million they were initially awarded by a Boston federal judge, the Boston Globe reported. The Court of Appeals this year tossed out the award on a technicality, saying…
