By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nearly six years after the FBI launched a sting and 1 1/2 years after he was convicted on public corruption charges, the legal wrangling goes on and ex-New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson remains a free man. The latest: Oral arguments for Jefferson’s appeal in the 4th U.S. Court of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, Thomas Porteous of New Orleans is no longer a federal judge. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to convict him on all four articles of impeachment that included allegations that he corruptly accepted meals, trips and other gifts from a bail bondsman while serving as a state judge, lied…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. District Judge Charles P. “Tony” Sifton, a former assistant U.S. Attorney who served on the bench in New York for 30 year, has died of sarcoidosis, a lung disease, the Washington Post reported. He was 74. Sifton served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York…
