By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Southern Florida was sentenced Friday to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison on a child pornography charge. The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that Anthony Mangione, 52, pleaded guilty in July to e-mailing child pornography to a former school bus…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating potential voter intimidation after official-looking letters questioning people’s eligibility to vote began turning up in mailboxes in at least 28 Florida counties, NBC News reports. “We’re taking it as a serious situation,” David Couvertier, a spokesman for the FBI in Tampa, told NBC News on Wednesday. “We’re looking…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Florida Gov. Bob Graham urged the federal government to reopen the investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to identify “an external support system,” the Florida Sun Sentinel reports. On the anniversary of 9/11, Graham, who was a U.S. Senator at the time of the attacks, told an audience he believes…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In its effort to crack down on addictive painkillers like oxycodone, the DEA has revoked the controlled substance licenses of two CVS Caremark Corp drugstores in Florida, Reuters reports. The two stores, about 30 miles south of the Orlando, contend they did nothing wrong and were busy pharmacies. The DEA, however, alleges…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Up for sale: Two story, lakefront Florida retreat riddled with bullets. The suggested starting price: $1 million. The frame house in rural Ocklawaha, about 60 miles northwest of Orlando, is where FBI agents killed legendary Ma Barker in 1935, Reuters reports. She was the mother of some gangsters of the Barker and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Florida’s controversial plan to purge ineligible voters from the rolls does not violate federal law, a judge said Wednesday in denying a U.S. Department of Justice request for an emergency restraining order, the New York Times reports. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jinkle said federal laws do not prevent states from removing…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Florida unfairly burdened the state’s minorities by reducing early voting house the Justice Department lawyers argued before a three-judge District panel in Washington D.C., the Chicago Tribune reports. The new rules are intended to ward off voter fraud by requiring people who moved between counties to fie provisional ballots. Counties also are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department said it will sue Florida if it doesn’t scrap its controversial voter purge program, which critics says unfairly targets minorities based on largely inaccurate information, CNN reports. At issue is a Republican-led effort to eliminate non-eligible voters in a battleground state that will play a key role in…
