Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In a brave new high-tech world, the federal indictment of eight online drug traffickers is the first of its kind. The BBC reports that the feds busted up a $1million-plus illegal drug operation online on a marketplace called “The Farmer’s Market” using the TOR network, which allows emails and websites to hide…
By Spencer S. Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials have known for years that flawed forensic work might have led to the convictions of potentially innocent people nationwide, but prosecutors failed to notify defendants or their attorneys even in many cases they knew were troubled. Officials started reviewing the cases in the…
By Brendan Sasso The Hill WASHINGTON –In less than a week, nearly 55,000 people have signed a petition urging the Justice Department to investigate whether employers who ask for their workers’ Facebook passwords are breaking the law. “Employers should not be allowed to demand private social networking passwords from job applicants. This privacy violation needs…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com America’s most controversial sheriff — Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio — is causing more heartburn for the Justice Department. CNN reports that the Justice Department broke off talks with the sheriff, whose department has been accused of discrminating against Hispanics. The Justice Department is preparing to sue the sheriff over the discrimination….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Something doesn’t seem right here. Bloomberg news reporst that the Justice Department has lost almost 30 percent of its tax prosecutors in the past month. Bloomberg reported that the loss is slowing down the U.S. crackdown on offshore banks and tax evasion. “To move one-third of these people from that effort…
Michael Carey is the former editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News and the host of the weekly public affairs show “Alaska Edition” for Alaska Public Television. By Michael Carey Los Angeles Times ANCHORAGE — As his trial on corruption charges approached in the fall of 2008, Ted Stevens railed to me in an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An assistant U.S. Attorney in New Orleans who posted remarks under an alias on a comment section of the local paper about federal judges, local and national politicians and cases being handled by his office, resigned on Tuesday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The paper, in an editorial, wrote that “Sal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has decided to step into the controversial shooting of an unarmed black teen in Florida. The Associated Press reported that the feds will launch a probe into last month’s shooting in Sanford, Fla., by a neighborhood watch captain George Zimmeran, 28, of Trayvon Martin, 17. Zimmerman is white…
