Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lance Armstrong has made a lot of money in cycling. Now the Justice Department wants some of that money and may sue Armstrong for allegedly profiting. The Justice Department is going after cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying he defrauded the U.S. government by denying years of using performance-enhancing drugs, the Associated Press reports….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s crime lab has come under intense scrutiny after a Justice Department review showed the bureau bungled up to tens of thousands of cases, the Huffington Post reports. Flawed forensic work means many innocent people are likely behind bars, the Huffington Post wrote. The errors were first exposed in a Washington…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Los Angeles Police Department investigation into the death of a man while he was in the custody of the DEA has been virtually stalled because the federal agency has refused to cooperate with the investigation, the LA Times reports. After analyzing records, the Times wrote that LAPD investigators can’t determine how…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is investigating a Mississippi school district that is accused of sending predominately black and disabled children to jail without probable cause for minor offenses, the Associated Press reports. A suit filed by the Justice Department said jail is used as “a medium for school discipline,” the AP reported. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of people paying time for a crime last year dropped to its lowest level since 2000, according to a newly released Justice Department report, the Associated Press writes. The report shows there are nearly 7 million people – or 2.9% of U.S. adults, are in jail, on probation or on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is launching an investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department following more than two dozen shootings, the New York Times reports. The probe is to determine whether police used excessive force, including unreasonable deadly force, against suspects. “We will peel the onion to its core, and we will leave no…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is leading an investigation to determine if Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., a former FBI agent, violated the law when he solicited campaign cash from foreign nationals in exchange for helping an Israeli obtain a green card, USA Today reports. The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to hand the probe…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The long, bitter fight between state and federal governments over the enforcement of marijuana is to land in the nation’s second-highest court this week, the Associated Press reports. The case, driven by pot activists, seeks to challenge the DEA’s classification of pot as a Schedule 1 drug, which means it has no…
