By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would come as no shock to find out some Republican appointees to the federal bench are not President Obama’s biggest fans. Nonetheless, it still comes as a shock that Chief Judge Richard Cebull, who is in his late 60s, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the fed bench…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to imagine the chief federal judge in any district being so ignorant as to taint the bench and raise serious questions about the ability to be objective. Well, meet Chief Judge Richard Cebull, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench in Montana. Apparently he admitted…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Montana state legislator claims the DEA is investigating her because of her support of medical marijuana laws. Diane Sands, a Democratic in the State House, told the Missoulian that a possible witness in a DEA investigation into medical marijuana businesses was asked if she was part of a conspiracy to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Mary F. Rook, the chief in the FBI’s Training Division’s Law Enforcement Programs Section, will head the Anchorage Division, the agency announced Wednesday. Rook began her FBI career in the laboratory as a serology technician in 1984. She became a special agent two years later and was assigned to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After nearly two years into his presidency, Barack Obama finds himself still whittling away at appointing U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals. On Wednesday, he nominated 7 U.S. Marshals and one U.S. Attorney. The nominees for Marshals included: Charles Edward Andrews for Southern District of Alabama; Darrell James Bell for Montana; William…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Most Americans look forward to Friday, the gateway to the weekend. Bank robbers, it appears, are no different. The FBI’s bank crime statistics released Wednesday for the first quarter of 2010 — January through March — shows 241 bank crimes occurred on Friday, more than any other day of…
With all that’s going on in this country — terrorism threats, mortgage fraud, political corruption — it’s not a bad idea for the Justice Dept. to drop this as a high priority. By Josh Gerstein Politico President Barack Obama’s Justice Department has quietly agreed to move a pornography prosecution out of socially conservative Montana to…
This is just a bizarre story. The FBI is investigating and there’s many unanswered questions. By ZACHARY FRANZ Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer GREAT FALLS, Montana — A United States Customs and Border Patrol agent who was poisoned at a Cut Bank fast food restaurant last year is back in the hospital for injuries suffered…
