Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s nominee of a key Justice Department position is coming under more attack. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and former Gov. Tom Ridge urged the U.S. Senate to reject Debo Adegbile because he helped overturn the death penalty for a convicted cop killer. Still, the Senate Judiciary…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The contractor that vetted NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the Navy Yard shooter has cheated taxpayers out of millions of dollars for unfinished background checks, the Washington Times reports, citing a Justice Department filing. In fact, investigators allege USIS received $11.7 million in performance awards from 2008 to 2010. But that work…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department leveled serious allegations against Alabama officials, saying the state failed to protect female prisoners from being sexually assaulted and harassed by correctional staff, Fox 6 WBRC reports. “Tutwiler has a history of unabated staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse and harassment,” the department wrote in a report to Gov. Robert Bentley. “The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a move to address decades of concerns about the protection of civil rights, the Justice Department plans to expand its definition of racial profiling to alleviate discrimination by religion, nationality, gender and sexual orientation, the New York Times reports. Although the Bush administration banned racial profiling in 2003, it provided exclusions…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s nominee for head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has drawn strong criticism from opponents of the appointment of Debo Adegbile, Fox News reports. They’ve described the former NAACP lawyer as “radical,” “dangerous” and “outside the mainstream.” Now he’s being criticized for playing a role in overturning the death…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal investigators are trying to determine whether any laws were broken during the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey, the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Port Authority Office of Inspector General has referred the matter to us, and our office is reviewing the matter to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A lot of mystery has surrounded the shooting death of Ibragim Todashev, a friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Now the FBI say it’s “eager” to release the results of an internal investigation into the May 22 shooting, which happened during a lengthy interrogation by an agent, the Boston…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com With the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, investors want to open up businesses to sell pot. Trouble is, they are reluctant to borrow money because of Justice Department regulations on such loans, the Motherboard reports. The Justice Department, which until recently was still aggressively pursuing pot shops, is considering easing those regulations…
