By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who once was considered for the top spot at the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, got some bad news Thursday. The 2nd Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld his four year sentence, saying the judge was fair, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nearly six years after the FBI launched a sting and 1 1/2 years after he was convicted on public corruption charges, the legal wrangling goes on and ex-New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson remains a free man. The latest: Oral arguments for Jefferson’s appeal in the 4th U.S. Court of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted ex-Rep. William Jefferson of money-in-the-freezer fame has had his fair share of disputes with the federal government. But this time around he’s got to be pleased with the government, which, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, has asked and gotten more time to file briefs in the case. After all,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers, the corrupt wife of Rep. John Conyers, who is serving time in a West Virginia federal prison, is appealing a ruling by the sentencing judge, who refused to let her withdraw her guilty plea before sentencing, the Detroit News reports. Her lawyer claims in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The issue of law enforcement using warrantless GPS is still simmering. The latest: The Justice Department on Monday asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. to overturn a ruling by a three-judge panel, which said law enforcement must get a warrant when using a GPS to track…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than six decades later, Adolph Hitler’s name still stirs up trouble. The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago admonished U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa of eastern Wisconsin for comparing a convicted drug dealer Jose Figueroa’s love of family to Adolf Hitler’s love for his dog….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers — wife of Rep. John Conyers — won’t be able to delay the inevitable. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that she can’t stay out of prison pending her appeal, which centers on U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn’s decision not to allow her to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The retrial next week in Brooklyn of right wing web radio talk show host Hal Turner should get interesting. The National Journal reports that federal prosecutors plan this time to call as witnesses three Court of Appeals judges from the 7th Circuit in Chicago who were the targets of Turner’s venemous…
