By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The FBI decided to end its sting and arrest a Northern Virginia man now charged with plotting to blow up D.C. -area subway stations because it was concerned he was about to leave the country to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to a court document…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A D.C. federal judge, saying he hoped “the government will learn a lesson from its experience”, dismissed a major obscenity case against a major porn producer, John A. Stagliano, aka “Buttman”, the Washington Post reported. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon dismissed the case before the Calif.-based Stagliano of Evil…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Bill Miller, a former reporter and editor at the Washington Post, who specialized in law enforcement coverage, is crossing over to the other side. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. announced Monday that Miller will take over as the public information officer for the busy office. A veteran reporter,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ex-DEA Agent Richard Horn may have been quite happy when the government agreed to pay him $3 million late last year to settle a lawsuit in which he claimed the CIA spied on him and illegally wiretapped his conversations while he was stationed in Burma in 1993. But U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An undercover FBI employee posing as an inmate’s brother, helped bust two D.C. corrections officers and a Maryland woman on federal bribery charges for allegedly smuggling cellphones and iPods to prisoners in exchange for cash payments, the Washington Post reported. Authorities on Tuesday arrested corrections officers Thomas Ford, 35,…
It’s never a good thing when you talk about murdering an informant and the person you’re talking to happens to be an undercover FBI agent. Short of an insanity plea, you’re in big big trouble. By Del Wilber Washington Post WASHINGTON — One of the members of the taxi industry charged in a far-reaching bribery…
Councilman Jim Graham It doesn’t sound like the guy got enough money to risk career and go to jail. But who can always understand human nature? The FBI used an informant in this case who wore a wire. After taking a $500 bribe in July, council aide Ted Loza explained why he took it: “You…
