By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors feel the infamous “Barefoot Bandit” Colton Harris-Moore who went on a crime spree that included stealing airplanes, shouldn’t make money off his wild story. In papers filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, federal prosecutors said the government should get all proceeds made from books or movies, SeattlePI.com reported….
By Justin Blum and Alison Fitzgerald Bloomberg WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are considering whether to pursue manslaughter charges against BP Plc (BP/) managers for decisions made before the Gulf of Mexico oil well explosion last year that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history, according to three people familiar with…
By Sally Jenkins Washington Post Columnist Barry Bonds is a lot of things, leading off with obnoxious, but he doesn’t meet my definition of a criminal. There is a growing school of legal thought that says we have a dangerous tendency to “overcriminalize,” using criminal law to try to solve every single social problem in…
James Burdick is a former Wayne County prosecutor in Detroit and is a criminal defense attorney who also practices health care discipline and is a reinstatement expert at the firm of Burdick Law, P.C. in Bloomfield Hills, Mi. He has also appeared regularly on Larry King Live, Court TV, Geraldo, Good Morning America and other…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Short of handing over Osama bin Laden, the “underwear bomber” accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day isn’t likely to strike up a deal with prosecutors that will set him free any time soon, legal experts say. “I don’t think they’re going to be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It seems one way or another, authorities are going to figure out a way to make the Ken and Barbie couple known as Tareq and Michaele Salahi regret that they ever crashed the White House party last November 24. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source column reports that not only…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The way fed prosecutors see it, ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich can’t endlessly blab and blab on TV and then worry about being hurt by pretrial publicity. On Tuesday, the prosecutors asked that a key document detailing evidence in their public corruption case be made public in its entirety, the Chicago Tribune…
John Gotti Jr./youtube There’s still a big public fascination with the Gotti family. But the judge isn’t so fascinated to the point that he’s willing to move forward without more evidence on the table. By Thomas Zambito New York Daily News NEW YORK –A Manhattan judge is giving John A. (Junior) Gotti’s prosecutors a week…
