By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former engineer who worked on the B-2 Stealth bomb was convicted in Honolulu Monday of selling military secrets to China to help that nation develop a stealth cruise missile, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said the engineer, Noshir Gowadia,66, pocketed at least $110,000 from the transactions and used the money…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 55-year-old Texas cop had a nice little thing going — that is until he got busted by ATF and the Texas Rangers. Authorities charged that Harry Leroy Kelly, as a cop with the Cleveland Police Department in Liberty County, Tex., sold guns and ammunition from the evidence room. He is…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Every young lawyer remembers the guy who gave him his first real job. For me and some others, it was a mark of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James K. Robinson, who became the Detroit U.S. Attorney in the late 1970s at age 34, and later became a high-ranking Justice Department official, died Friday at age 66, the Grand Rapids Press reported. The Grand Rapids native died at his vacation home in Park City, Utah, the Grand Rapids Press…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Vincent H. Cohen Jr. has left private practice to return to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington as the number two person, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced Monday. Cohen, 39, a partner in the D.C. law firm Schertler & Onorato, served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You say tomato. The lawyers for tomato king Frederick Scott Salyer say something far harsher. Defense lawyer for the former chief executive officer of the now defunct SK Foods, a tomato-product empire, claim in a court filing Tuesday in Sacramento that the FBI illegally used an informant to steal documents for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Back in 2008, Colombo mobster Michael “Mickey” Souza had had enough, according to the New York Daily News. He was facing up to 30 years in prison on drug charges. He wanted to start singing to the feds. ” ‘Hello, John,’ ” he wrote to John Buretta, the chief of the…
