By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Soon after a grand jury declined to indict a white New York City cop in the death of Eric Garner, a black man who was selling cigarettes, the Justice Department will conduct its own civil rights investigation. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press conference today that…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of President Obama’s closest friends is not cooperating in a federal investigation, prompting the Justice Department to seek Dr. Eric E. Whitaker as a “hostile witness,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Prosecutors filed the motion Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, where a Chicago businessman, Leon Dingle Jr., is on…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did the IRS improperly disclose taxpayer information to the White House? It has been a question that is more than a year old but may finally yield an answer after the Justice Department said it is close releasing thousands of documents related to the IRS investigation, International Business Times reports. The…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com David Laufman, an experienced former federal prosecutor, will take over the Justice Department’s counterespionage efforts as part of a larger restructuring to put more of a focus on cyber attacks, Reuters reports. Laufman is expected to begin his job today as chief of the counterespionage section of the Justice Department’s national…
By St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board The story of Ferguson has been told in pictures. First was the body of 18-year-old Michael Brown, face down on Canfield Drive in a pool of blood, killed by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson. That picture went viral, shared wildly on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by a legion of people…
By Steve Neavling www.ticklethewire.com Chaos erupted in pockets of Ferguson Monday night after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager. So what’s next? The Justice Department is investigating whether Officer Darren Wilson violated the civil rights of Michael Brown. But don’t expect him to be…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Employees of a debt collection company in Georgia are accused of impersonating FBI, Justice Department and local police officials to get thousands of people to pay up, the Guardian reports. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the employees of Williams, Scott and Associates illegally collected debts from 6,000 people and are now…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has launched a review of the police response to 16 days of Ferguson protests in wake of the fatal shooting of an unarmed teen, CNN reports. The review will examine the handling of crowd control, protesters and the media. The task will be undertaken by a 12-person team…
