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Man Loses Lawsuit That Claimed DEA Supplied Him with Crack for Help in Investigation
A New Mexico man who claims federal agents gave him crack cocaine in exchange for help in an undercover investigation lost a lawsuit against he agency.
Marion Barry’s Civil Rights Achievements Overshadowed by FBI Sting involving crack
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For better or worse, the defining moment of Marion Barry’s storied political career was an FBI bust that revealed the D.C. mayor smoking crack in a hotel room in 1990. “Bitch set me up,” Barry said of the woman who was a part of the sting. Barry, who also was a…
Justice Department Searches for Crack Cocaine Convicts to Be Freed from Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A disproportionate number of low-level drug criminals who are behind bars are African Americans sentenced under strict laws from the days of the crack epidemic. Hoping to correct that disparity, the Justice Department is encouraging defense lawyers to help identify inmates for clemency, the New York Times reports. Penalties for drug offenses…
Drug Bust in Upstate New York Charges Nine in Crack Network
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine people were in indicted on Friday in a suspected narcotics ring near Rochester, N.Y., ABC reports. Between 2008 and 2012, authorities from local police precincts and the ATF say, the indicted used rental properties to distribute 280 grams of crack and five kilograms of cocaine. They also face weapons charges,…
Prosecutor’s Nightmare: Chicago Fed Juror Failed to Disclose Felony Convictions
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now stay tuned for a federal prosecutorial nightmare. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that “court officials acknowledged Thursday that information revealed by the Tribune appears to show that a member of the federal jury that convicted Springfield power broker William Cellini concealed two felony convictions.” Generally, a convicted felon cannot…
Thousands of Inmates to be Released Under Changes in Crack Cocaine Law
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A wave of prisoners could be released this week as a result of a change in sentencing for crack cocaine violations. The Associated Press reports that nearly 2,000 federal prisoners will be eligible for early release Tuesday as a result of a bill signed into law by President Obama last year that…
NY Fed Judge Visits Brooklyn Neighborhood Where Defendants Allegedly Sold Drugs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein — some times known as a maverick — did something fairly unorthox for a federal judge, but maybe not so unorthodox for Weinstein: he went to visit the neighborhood where a crack cocaine crew ruled, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Weinstein, 89,…
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