By KEN ACKERMAN EDGAR BOARDED THE OVERNIGHT TRAIN on Tuesday, April 6, 1920, carrying a suitcase with a few notes and a change of clothes. It took ten hours to reach Boston from Washington, and he used the time sitting alone to read, think, and steal a few hours’ sleep. The next morning, he stepped…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oprah trumps all! As you might recall the other day, a prospective juror in the retrial of ex-Ill. Gov Rod Blagojevich wanted off jury duty because she had four tickets to a May 10 taping of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In May, the legendary show, which is taped in Chicago, is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two of three Philly cops busted in an undercover DEA sting last summer are expected to plead guilty Monday, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Cops Robert Snyder, 30, of South Philadelphia, and James Venziale, 32, of the Far Northeast, are scheduled to enter pleas before U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Not a good thing for the judiciary. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr, 67, of Georgia was arrested Friday night near Sandy Springs, Ga., after he bought $160 worth of cocaine and Roxycodone, a narcotic pain killer, from an undercover agent. The paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man known as the Times Square Bomber planned to set off an additional bomb two weeks later, according to court papers filed by prosecutors Wednesday, which urged the judge to give Faisal Shahzad a life sentence. The papers, a sentencing memorandum, said that Shahazd hoped to kill 40 people in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fun is over for Brenna Marie Reilly. The Washington Examiner reports she was sentenced Friday in federal court in Alexandra, Va., to 30 days in prison and four months of house arrest for impersonating an FBI agent and hiring an assistant to work for her as a fake…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 49-year-old Texas inmate pleaded guilty Friday to hiring a hitman — who ended up being an undercover ATF agent — to kill a state judge. Jeffrey Dwayne Harrison pleaded guilty in Lubbock, Tex., to attempted murder-for-hire of Judge Stephen Ellis, 35th Judicial District Court Judge of Brown County, Tex., the…
