By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Brooklyn-born rapper Christopher Wallace — aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls — was killed on March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles with a “very rare” Gecko 9 mm armor piercing ammunition seldom found in the U.S., newly released FBI files show. ABC News reported that information, which is included…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors are hoping on Monday to land the toughest sentence in the history of federal corruption cases when former ICE official Constantine Peter Kallas appears in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The former Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was found guilty of three dozen corruption…
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…
