By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who has led the crusade against Attorney General Eric Holder during the Fast and Furious investigations, said he may recommend merging ATF into the FBI, Bloomberg reports. “ATF, perhaps, should be molded completely into the FBI and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Add five years to the Danziger Bridge prison time count. A former New Orleans police officer was sentenced Thursday to five years for his role on the bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, according to a Justice Department statement. Robert Barrios rode with other officers in a large Budget rental…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For guys like Steven Scott Cantrell, hate never goes out of style. Luckily in this case, either does justice. The 26-year-old member of the Aryan Brotherhood, who hails from from Crane, Tex. was sentenced Wednesday in fed court in Midland, Tex., to 37.5 years for a hate crime stemming from a…
“The jerk store called, they’re running out of you.” George Costanza, Seinfeld By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The above quote may be applicable to a Washington state man who was convicted Tuesday of filing over $20 billion in false liens against federal officials including fed prosecutors. The 2-day trial ended when Ronald James Davenport, of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Billy Joel who once sang “Only the Good Die Young.” Not so. AP reported that retired Justice Department official John C. Keeney, the longest-serving federal prosecutor in history, died on Saturday in Kensington, Md., at age 89. In a statement posted on the Justice Department website on Monday, Attorney…
By Nedra Pickler Associated Press WASHINGTON – The special prosecutor who investigated the botched case against late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is not recommending criminal charges against any of the Justice Department attorneys who tried him despite finding widespread misconduct beyond what has yet been publicly revealed. The findings in a two-and-a-half-year investigation by Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Thursday announced a civil rights investigation into the Miami Police Department involving deadly use of force in nine police shootings — eight of which were fatal. “In the past 16 months, we have seen nine police involved shootings that are of concern and are the premise of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder can’t get a break. On break from congressional hounding over ATF’s Fast and Furious program, Holder is now being criticized over an ongoing visit to the Caribbean. The Daily Beast reports that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has been sharply critical of Holder over the Fast and Furious…
