By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA and Guatemala authorities on Wednesday nabbed Guatemala’s reputed top drug trafficker who was wanted on cocaine charges in Florida, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that Juan Ortiz Lopez and two other suspects were arrested at a house in the western city of Quetzaltenango. Guatemala’s Minister Carlos Menocal said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Going for the federal death penalty is one thing. Putting a federal inmate to death is another. Since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988, three federal inmates have actually been executed and 60 are sitting on death row, according to Death Penalty Information Center. The last inmate to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke to notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan has become aggressively global, indicting international figures from around the world, the New York Times reports. Since 2004, the Times’ Ben Weiser reports that the office has sent prosecutors to 25-plus…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday nominated three U.S. Attorneys and three U.S. Marshals. The nominees for U.S. Attorney include Charlotte lawyer Thomas Gray Walker for North Carolina’s Eastern District, assistant U.S. Attorney Felicia Adams for the Northern District of Mississippi and S. Amanda Marshall. So far, according to the Justice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com WASHINGTON –More than a year after photogenic Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed the White House and caused an uproar, it appears unlikely the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington will file charges in the case, ticklethewire.com has learned. That conclusion, according to a source, comes after an exhaustive investigation, and after some…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-New Jersey U.S. Attorney and current Governor Chris Christie tried Wednesday to put an end to speculation that he might make a bid for president as a Republican in 2012. Appearing on NBC’s Today show, Christie, 48, told Ann Curry: “There is no chance , zero chance, under any circumstances. Close…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-interim Philly U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid is facing some serious allegations. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has alleged that as a government employee Magid improperly held fundraisers for Sen. Arlen Specter in 2008 and one for U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan in 2009, and solicited funds from subordinates at the U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Nashville U.S. Attorney John Roberts, who served during the Clinton administration, died Sunday after a long illness, the Memphis Post reported. He was 74. After leaving his post, Roberts served as executive director of the Livingston-Overton County Chamber of Commerce. Previously, he served as a General Sessions Court judge. The…
