By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A group of religious and civil rights leaders isn’t buying the Justice Department’s report this week that the FBI acted properly when it shot and killed Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah last October during a raid on a suburban warehouse, the Detroit Free Press reported. The paper reported that Christian, Muslim…
UPDATE, Thurs. 2:30 p.m. — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made a brief appearance Thursday and said he was happy representing himself, and didn’t think it was necessary for the prosecutors to share evidence with his stand-by counsel, the Detroit News reported. The judge said she was overriding him on the sharing of evidence. A pretrial conference…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department announced Wednesday that the FBI agents who shot and killed Detroit imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah last October during a raid did not violate federal civil rights laws and did not “warrant further federal criminal investigation.” The announcement came nearly two weeks after the Michigan Attorney General concluded the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 300-page police report released Friday stated that 20 FBI agents and three others in law enforcement said they heard agents warn Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah to show his hands or they’d send in a police dog, the Detroit Free Press reported. The report backed the conclusion this week by the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Defense attorneys were in federal court in downtown Detroit earlier this week alleging that the government engaged in misconduct and committed a number of errors to get convictions for all six Highwaymen Motorcycle Club members earlier this year, the Detroit Free press reported. The Free Press reported that defense…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James K. Robinson, who became the Detroit U.S. Attorney in the late 1970s at age 34, and later became a high-ranking Justice Department official, died Friday at age 66, the Grand Rapids Press reported. The Grand Rapids native died at his vacation home in Park City, Utah, the Grand Rapids Press…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Disgraced ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who lived the good life on the outside, is getting a federally court-appointed attorney after pleading poverty Tuesday during his arraignment on federal corruption charges in Detroit, the Detroit News reported. The News reported that Kilpatrick, clad in a jail suit, said “that is correct” when…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drama and embarrassment in the Motown continues Tuesday when ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor” — steps into a downtown federal courtroom to face arraignment on 19 felony fraud and income tax counts, the Detroit News reports. Kilpatrick is already in prison. He served 99…
