By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The lawyer for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has sent off a letter to a Los Angeles federal prosecutor complaining about leaks in a grand jury probe into possible doping conspiracies involving Armstrong’s team, the Associated Press reported. Lawyer Tim Herman wrote federal prosecutor Doug Miller of the L.A….
By Allan Lengel For AOL News A Canadian man promised the elderly a little piece of heaven. Instead, some lost their homes and life savings. Today that man, Henry Anekwu, 43, of British Columbia, was sentenced in Los Angeles federal court to nine years in prison for fleecing dozens of elderly Americans of at least…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – About a dozen police chiefs from cities like Phoenix, Tuscon, Houston and Los Angeles plan to meet Wednesday with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to express concerns about Arizona’s new immigration law, CNN is reporting. CNN said the chiefs will voice concerns that the new law will “drive a…
By Allan Lengel For Aol News WASHINGTON — It was in November 1973 that President Richard Nixon famously declared, “I’m not a crook.” Now, nearly 37 years later, a crook has been prancing around Encino, a hilly district in Los Angeles, impersonating our 37th president, wearing a Nixon mask and sticking up banks with a…
Salvador Hernandez/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Salvador Hernandez, who has headed the FBI in Los Angeles since October 2007, is retiring, according to two people familiar with his situation. Hernandez, the assistant director in charge of the L.A. office, is expected to take a job in the private sector. He first joined…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien of Los Angles is stepping down, effective Sept. 1, to join a private law firm, the Los Angles Times reported. Thom Mrozek, an office spokesman, said O’Brien will be joining the Paul Hastings law firm, the paper said. O’Brien, a former Navy Top Gun…
This certainly won’t put an end to the drug violence, but any bust that possibly involves the Mexican drug cartels is good. By Ruben Vives Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Four men were taken into federal custody this morning after a raid on a gun-trafficking ring that may be tied to a Mexican drug…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there’s any place on earth that takes the illegal distribution of movies seriously, it’s the Los Angeles area. Derek Hawthorne, 21, is learning that the hard way. Hawthorne pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles to two felony counts of illegally uploading copyrighted works….
