By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former CIA officer, who helped track down and capture a big terror suspect, was charged Monday with repeatedly disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities, the Justice Department said. The charges were…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Big goings on in Puerto Rico. Fifty people have been charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Puerto Rico with conspiracy to commit ID fraud as part of their alleged roles in an ID trafficking scheme. The charges were announced by leaders from the Justice Department, ICE, Homeland Securities Investigations, the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder, a favorite target of Congressional Republicans in the wake of the Fast and Furious debacle in which ATF officials let guns “walk” from Southwestern dealers in the US to drug cartels in Mexico, is getting a rare endorsement from a prominent official in Utah–“perhaps the reddest of…
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST: US Reviewing anti-Muslim School Bias Complaint (AP) Man Accused of Raping Girl, 12, and Forcing Her into Prosecution (LA Times) FBI Investigates Christmas Eve Hack (BayouBuzz.com) Austin-Area Law Enforcement Spends Two Years Focused on Mexican Mafia Activity (The Republic)
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Barack Obama has named a new man to head federal law enforcement in the drug trafficking-prone US Virgin Islands, reports the Daily World. Ronald W. Sharpe is the new US Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands. Sharpe has deep roots and extended family in the area, according to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man charged in the Feb. 15 murder in Mexico of ICE agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE agent Victor Avila has been extradited from Mexico to the U.S. to face trial. The Justice Department announced the charges and the extradition on Wednesday of Julian Zapata Espinoza, aka…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Religion can unite folks. It can also divide them. It can also make them do some crazy things. Just ask the Amish. A federal grand jury in Cleveland on Wednesday issued a seven-count indictment charging 10 men and 2 women who are part of an Amish breakaway group with federal crimes…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’re going to bribe a country, you might as well do it big time. That’s what eight former executives and agents of Siemens AG and its subsidiaries must have figured. On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that the eight had been charged with allegedly engaging in a decade-long scheme to…
