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 Apparently Facebook isn’t just for chatting it up with old pals or initiating a discussion about the latest Monet art exhibit. ATF is investigating allegations that a Virginia inmate used Facebook to threaten government witnesses in his upcoming arson case, station WSLS reported. The station, citing a federal search warrant for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) on Friday voiced its “strong support” for the nomination of Andrew Traver as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Traver, who was nominated to the post by President Obama last month, currently heads up ATF’s Chicago…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Charges have been dropped against three Washington area FBI agents and an analyst who were accused of covering up use of steroids and human growth hormones. In federal court on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a one-page document dismissing the charges without prejudice, leaving open the possibility of…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The FBI decided to end its sting and arrest a Northern Virginia man now charged with plotting to blow up D.C. -area subway stations because it was concerned he was about to leave the country to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, according to a court document…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Northern Virginia man who found little humor in the animated show “South Park”, and wished death to its creators on the Internet, is scheduled to plead guilty to supporting Somali terrorists, the Washington Post reports. The paper reports that Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Bristow, Va., will plead…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 65-year-old Information Technology Program manager for the FBI was sentenced Friday in Alexandria, Va., to 3 years and 10 months in prison for possessing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Samuel I. Kaplan, 65, of Gainesville, Va., pled guilty to possessing child porn on June 3. Court…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Call it the sign of the times. The FBI won’t let 26-year-old Muslim American Yahya Wehelie fly home to Virginia from the Middle East, the New York Times reports. Wehelie spent 18 months in Yemen. In May, he was heading home to Virginia and was changing planes in Cairo when the…
