By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph M. Riehl is taking over ATF’s San Francisco Division, which includes Northern California and Nevada. “We will renew partnerships and forge new working relationships with law enforcement at all levels of government as well as with community leaders and key stakeholders in California and Nevada,” Riehl said in a statement….
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit Author Allison Leotta, a Detroit area native, says the Justice Department no longer has to screen her book transcripts, steamy sex scenes and all. That’s because she quit her job last year as a prosecutor in Washington. “It’s is a relief,” says the Michigan State graduate who now lives…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The politics surrounding ATF’s failed Operation Fast and Furious began to sizzle Wednesday, with Republicans leading the charge against Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, voting along party lines, voted 23 to 17 to hold Holder in contempt for failing to turn over documents pertaining…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com While most of us were celebrating Mother’s Day on Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder commemorated the service of fallen peace officers in an annual candlelight vigil, as part of National Police Week, reports the Justice Dept and PR Newswire. Each May 13, fallen officers’ newly engraved names are formally dedicated and read…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors in D.C. will get a second chance on Monday to try and convict baseball great Roger Clemens of lying to Congress about using performance enhancing drugs after the screwing up big time the first time around. Jury selection begins Monday in D.C. federal court, just blocks from the Capitol….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At a time when Iran is not a very popular nation around the world, the feds have indicted an Australian man and his company on charges of conspiring to export sensitive military technology from the U.S. to Iran. Fed authorities in D.C. on Wednesday indicted David Levick, 50, an Australian national,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You know a good way to stay homeless? Try stealing a Secret Service car. UPI reports a homeless man was arrested in Washington on Friday after he tried swiping a Secret Service car that was parked near Sidwell Friends School, an exclusive private school in Upper Northwest Washington that happens to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members and partners of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Washington Field Office, who were involved in a sting that targeted a plot to blow up the Washington area subway system in 2010, will be among those honored Oct. 4 in Washington at the Anti Defamation League’s second annual…
