Jack Johnson/wusa By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Jack Johnson, a former county executive in suburban D.C., who was caught on a phone wiretap directing his wife inside their home to destroy evidence while FBI agents stood at the door, was sentenced Tuesday in Maryland federal court to 7 years and 3 months in prison and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday faced the first of two days of hearings for his sentencing on public corruption charges. The usually chatty ex-governor had walked quietly out of his home earlier in the morning and into the courtroom via a passage blocked off to the media he once revelled in, a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fed prosecutors in Chicago want ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich to go away to prison for a long long time. The Associated Press reports that prosecutors said in court papers filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago that Blago deserves a sentence of 15 to 20 years, suggesting he misused his…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents spent more than two years investigating the late Rep. John Murtha, moving to expand their ongoing investigation into a full public corruption probe just months before he passed, reports the Washington Post. Investigators were looking into whether the Pennsylvania Democrat was using his positions as defense appropriations chairman-a position…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s an old saying: “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.” But for ex-Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, justice delayed means more FREEDOM. Bruce Alpert, a star reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, reports : ” Almost two years after a federal jury found former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson guilty of 11 counts of…
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 He’s back. Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich — a man who never saw a microphone he didn’t like — has filed a pretrial motion seeking what he says is missing evidence including records of a phone call between Blagojevich aide John Harris and then White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the…
