Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com How many books have you read recently that actually changed your thinking on opinions you have held near and dear for decades? Not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former university research technologist was convicted Monday in Chicago of conspiring to kill a federal prosecutor and DEA agent, the Chicago Tribune reported. The paper reported that it all began two years ago when Frank Caira told a friend that he wanted to make the prosecutor Shoshana Gillers and DEA…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what’s being billed as a first, a boss of one of the five New York crime families took the stand Tuesday to testify in court for the government. No New York boss had ever done that before, though it’s generally accepted that the code of silence aint’ what it used…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to keep the unsolved 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Crane Wales out in the public eye. The latest: The FBI has posted on its website a summary of the case along with Wales’ photo and reminder that the Justice Department is offering up to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Investigators are looking at an imprisoned serial killer and former FBI informant as a possible suspect in the 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Tom Wales, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Wales, 49, and a father of two, was sitting in front of his computer in the basement of his home…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Seven- time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens, who was indicted last week on charges of lying to Congress about steroid use, is adding a former federal prosecutor to his team, ESPN.com reports. Michael Attanasio, a federal prosecutor in Washington from 1991 to 1999, who is now a partner in…
By Allan lengel ticklethewire.com There are mailboxes. And then there are mailboxes that belong to federal prosecutors. As for the latter, those mailboxes get special attention. The Palm Beach Post reports that the FBI, ATF and U.S. Postal Service are investigating a firework on Sunday that triggered a fire in the mailbox of an assistant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Under things you don’t do in court, comes Raymond V. Jones. The Washington Examiner reports that Jones on Nov. 16th punched Assistant U.S. Attorney James Crowell IV in the head with a closed fist in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., after watching his mother Jennifer McCall get sentenced…
