By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who was serving a life sentence, will be paroled on Nov. 21 after serving 30 years, Business Insider reports. As part condition for parole, Pollard will have to remain in the U.S. for five years, the publication reports. The Wall Street Journal reported that the federal parole…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Obama’s visit to Israel is stirring up a longstanding, sensitive issue involving Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel while working for U.S. Naval intelligence. Seymour D. Reich, a lawyer and former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, writes this week in a letter to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard — who worked for Naval intelligence — is back in the news again. The Washington Post reports that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sent a letter to President Obama asking for Pollard’s release. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It seems conman Bernie Madoff is at peace now that he’s among among fellow thieves. New York magazine has written a fascinating piece on how Madoff seems relieved to have gotten caught and is admired by some of his fellow inmates at the Butner Correctional Facility in North Carolina. Lifer at…
