Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The lead FBI agent on the sweeping corruptions case involving the Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies testified Thursday that it was important to document inmate abuse by smuggling a cell phone to a prisoner with a history of violence and lying. The Los Angeles Times reports that the defendant Deputy James Sexton…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A recently retired FBI agent accused of trying to derail a federal investigation into defense contract spending is expected to plead not guilty today to charges of fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors say Robert Lustyik, a former White Plains, N.Y.-based counterintelligence officer, sidetracked an investigation into…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 23-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department is accused of leaking information about a federal investigation into drug trafficking organizations, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. An unsealed indictment Wednesday accuses Rafael Cordero, 51, of the police department’s Criminal Intelligence Unit, of tipping off his half-brother, David Garcia, about a search…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency pleaded guilty Monday to lying in a civil case about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Texas, who worked in the EPA Criminal Investigation Division (CID) in Dallas, pleaded guilty in federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Baseball slugger Barry Bonds got a little good news even though he faces sentencing Dec. 16 for an obstruction of justice conviction in San Francisco. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday dropped the remaining three charges of making false statement, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The jury had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball legend Barry Bonds on Wednesday afternoon of one count of obstruction of justice, MSNBC reported. The jury deadlocked on the other three counts of perjury involving allegations that he lied to a grand jury in 2003 about his use of steroids and human…
Editors Note: The jury in the Bond’s case begins its fourth day of deliberations on Wednesday. He faces charges of making false statements to a grand jury about steroid use and obstruction of justice. By WILLIAM C. RHODEN The New York Times The trial of Barry Bonds has always been more than a simple case…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s game time for the baseball legend Barry Bonds. Jury selection begins Monday in federal court in San Francisco for the home run slugger who is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he didn’t take steroids. Bonds, 46, is not likely to face prison…
