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Ex-FBI Agent Gets 2-Year Prison Term for Illegally Selling Guns

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Paso FBI agent is headed off to prison. John Shipley, now formerly of the FBI, was sentenced Tuesday in El Paso to two years in prison for illegally selling more than $118,000 worth of guns without a license and lying to ATF agents about the sales. U.S. District Judge…

Jury that Convicted Jefferson Says He Should Forfeit $470,000

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William Jefferson was already in financial straights before this. He bounced plenty checks and ran up credit cards. Now he and his family face some tough times ahead with the jury’s latest finding. By Bruce Alpert and Jonathan Tilove New Orleans Times-Picayune William Jefferson, the former Democratic congressman convicted of 11 of 16 counts of…