By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Detroit federal judge has fined a former assistant U.S. Attorney $2,000 for making an “unwarranted and baseless request” in a child pornography case, the Detroit News reported. The judge alleged that the ex-prosecutor, turned defense attorney, tried to intimidate the mother of the victim. U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman last…
UPDATE: (Fri. May 21) — The battle between Richard Convertino and prosecutors came to an abrupt halt Thursday when Convertino’s client, ex-state Rep. Mary Waters pleaded guilty in the bribery case along with her co-defendant Sam Riddle. Waters, who pleaded to a misdemeanor, is expected to get probation and Riddle could get up to 37…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Things seldom get out of hand in federal court. Sometimes a defense attorney or prosecutor asks a witness an objectionable question that stirs a round of passionate arguments. Sometimes a judge loudly scolds. or even screams at an attorney. But Monday, the Detroit News reported that jurors in the Highwaymen Motorcycle…
“Make Me Wanna Holler, Throw Up Both My Hands” — Marvin Gaye, Inner City Blues, 1971 By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If Marvin Gaye were still alive, the latest news out of Detroit would make him wanna holler. Really holler. The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging two former officials in Detroit Public…
Gordon Snow/ fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Gordon M. Snow, a Detroit native, gets a bump up, going from deputy assistant director of the agency’s Cyber Division to assistant director of the division, which protects U.S. from cyber attacks and high tech crimes. “The FBI considers the cyber threat against our nation…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News When former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is the target of an FBI bribery investigation, was re-elected in 2005 in a miraculous comeback, he told his followers, “Some y’all just crazy.” When he came to visit the Detroit Free Press years before his text-message scandal, he said to city…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Wednesday found himself defending the handling of the Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit — this time before a Congressional committee. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., told Mueller he would have preferred that a team of interrogation experts had been brought to Detroit…
