By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Filming has started for the highly controversial J. Edgar Hoover film being directed by Clint Eastwood, On Location Vacations reports. The website reports that some filming has taken place in Los Angeles. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the legendary FBI director and Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, his sidekick at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI are investigating a deputy U.S. Marshal who fatally shot a tattoo parlor employee while off duty during a confrontation in Los Angeles in 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported. The local prosecutor had found inconsistencies in deputy marshal Matthew Itkowitz’s story, but…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Two top executives of a California entertainment company and a DJ who spun records at actor Eddie Murphy’s wedding in 2008 were among 14 people indicted Tuesday for their alleged role in a Hollywood-based drug ring that shipped hundreds of pounds of cocaine on chartered jets from Los Angeles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Los Angeles U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O’Brien says he wrote a check this week reimbursing the government in instances where he stayed in hotel rooms that cost more than the government-approved rate, the Los Angeles Times reported. O’Brien was one of five U.S. Attorneys cited in a Justice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The director of “Die Hard” is off to live hard. A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced John McTiernan Monday to one year in jail and a $100,000 fine for lying to FBI agents over a wiretapping case in which he hired rogue detective Anthony Pellicano to wiretap film producer Charles…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An assistant to a top executive at the Walt Disney Company pleaded guilty Tuesday in Manhattan U.S. District Court to partaking in an insider trading scheme. Bonnie J. Hoxie, 34, of Los Angeles, admitted that she along with her boyfriend Yonni Sebbag of Morocco obtained confidential inside information, including Disney’s quarterly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A jittery public continues to get a periodic reminder of the potential dangers of flying. The latest came Tuesday evening when Thai Airways flight 794 from Bangkok landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport after a bomb threat written in poorly worded English was discovered on a bathroom mirror, the Associated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Yonni Sebbag won’t be going to Disney World any time soon. In fact, he’s probably going to a place far scarier. On Monday, in New York, Yonni Sebbag, 30, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to conspiring with his girlfriend to sell insider information about Walt Disney Co. stock, the U.S. Attorney’s…
