By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — RESOLUTION OF THE 2001 anthrax attacks continues to prove elusive. The Justice Department and the FBI identified Maryland scientist Bruce E. Ivins as having single-handedly carried out the attacks that killed five people and seriously sickened 17 others. The department was on the verge of seeking an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A former office manager for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy could be off to prison. A federal jury in Washington on Tuesday convicted Ngozi T. Pole, 40,of Waldorf, Md., of stealing more than $75,000 by paying himself unauthorized bonuses, the Justice Department said. Specifically, he was convicted of five…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An Emergency Services specialist for U.S. Secret Service died Wednesday while fighting a four-alarm fire as a Lutherville, Md., volunteer firefighter in Baltimore County. Mark G. Falkenhan, 43, a four year employee of the Secret Service, died in a blaze, which was called in as a kitchen fire around…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Marshals assisted federal agents in a raid earlier this week at the suburban Washington home of a man who had retired from the National Archives, the website TBD reported. The raid, which resulted in the seizure of materials, came in wake of a report that cited “significant weaknesses”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Marshals Service administrative officer in Washington responsible for payroll matters pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing $104,000 in government funds, the Justice Department announced. Sno H. Rush, 40, of Upper Marlboro, Md., worked as an administrative officer for the Marshals Service in D.C. Superior…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Craig Allen Corey II was doing a lot more than soldiering when he was based at Fort Meade, Md. Federal authorities say the Army soldier was running a prostitution and drug trafficking ring from his apartment in Millersville, Md., a small town outside Baltimore, and advertising the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The killer anthrax case is not dead — at least in some circles. The New York Times reports that a former Army microbiologist Henry S. Heine told a National Academy of Sciences panel on Thursday that his colleague Bruce E. Ivins could not have produced the deadly anthrax spores,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is former FBI agent Robert Levinson who vanished in Iran three years ago, dead? An American-born Muslim convert Hassan Abdulraham, who is wanted for the 1980 murder of a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland, says most likely Yes, Fox News reports. Abdulraham, who was editor of Iran’s state run Press TV…
