Hawaii May Be First State to Enter All Gun Owners into FBI Database
Hawaii is poised to become the first state in the nation to enter gun owners into an FBI database.
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Happy Birthday, Magna Carta
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Eight hundred years ago today, a group of rebellious English barons met with despotic King John at Runnymede near the Thames River and agreed to a peace treaty , the Magna Carta. Negotiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the charter was meant to settle an aristocratic uprising over the unpopular king’s…
Parker: Happy Birthday, Magna Carta
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. He is the author of the book “Carving Out the Rule of Law: The History of the United States Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan 1815–2008″. By Ross…
Opinion: Unpaid Scholarships at Justice Department ‘Misguided And Unethical’
By Sarah Mahmood PolicyMic.com If you naively thought that the unpaid internship grind would end after college, when all your uncompensated hard work would land you a fancy job upon graduation, you thought wrong. Forget college, it apparently doesn’t even end after graduate school. What’s even more disheartening is that not only is this practice…
Sentences Rise While Crimes Fall, Legal Experts Say
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When William Jefferson was convicted on public corruption charges in 2009, he got hit with a 13-year sentence–the highest prison term a Congressman has ever received. Bernie Madoff, the financial scammer who pleaded guilty in New York in 2009 to running a massive Ponzi scheme, was handed a whopping 150-year sentence….
Feds Probing Cases of Fed Judge Who Had Relation with Stripper and Drugs
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Now comes more fallout from the federal judge in Atlanta who pleaded guilty last month to buying drugs for a felon — a stripper — he was having an affair with after meeting her at the Goldrush Showbar. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillen Yates announced in Atlanta Thursday that her…
Oops! President Obama Offends DEA Agents in Drug War Comments
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insulted — albeit inadvertently — the folks at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today by mentioning the FBI instead of their agency in remarks about the war on drugs. At a town hall meeting in Washington aired on MTV, the president told a group…
DEA Seeking Experts in Ebonics for Narcotics Cases
By Allan Lengel For AOL News If you speak Ebonics, the federal government may have a job for you. The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to hire people fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, transcribe and translate secretly recorded conversations in narcotics investigations, according to the website The Smoking Gun and DEA documents. The Smoking Gun…