By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After nearly two years into his presidency, Barack Obama finds himself still whittling away at appointing U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals. On Wednesday, he nominated 7 U.S. Marshals and one U.S. Attorney. The nominees for Marshals included: Charles Edward Andrews for Southern District of Alabama; Darrell James Bell for Montana; William…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The nine-year march down a tortuous path toward justice for the Chandra Levy family, prosecutors and investigators came down to final arguments today in D.C. Superior Court in the murder trial of an illegal immigrant. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Haines, armed with no physical evidence to speak…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Yes, even the big guys and gals get the call to jury duty some times. The Christian Science Monitor reports that Atty. General Eric Holder Jr. reported to jury duty on Monday at D.C. Superior Court, the city’s court. And to no surprise, just like most of the big…
Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, covered the first two years of the Chandra Levy investigation for the Washington Post. By Allan Lengel For AOL News In a law office in an upscale section of Los Angeles, an unfinished yet potentially explosive book manuscript by a controversial figure, former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, sits in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office is gearing up for an Oct. 18 trial in the slaying of intern Chandra Levy in 2001. The latest in the case came Monday when prosecutors told a D.C. Superior Court judge that Ingmar Guandique,29, the man charged in the murder, sexually assaulted a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Even the FBI director doesn’t get out of reporting for jury duty. Director Robert S. Mueller III showed up Monday for jury duty at D.C. Superior Court, the city’s criminal court, the Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reported. Mueller, who showed up with an “ear-pieced security guy in tow”,…
