By Allan Lengel For AOL News The former school superintendent is behind bars. County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife are whisked away in handcuffs by FBI agents, after authorities say she flushed evidence in the form of a $100,000 check down the toilet. And a few days later, three county cops are indicted in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey who crusaded against corruption, Chris Christie — now the New Jersey governor — routinely stayed in expensive hotels at taxpayer expense, far exceeding the government allowance, according to a Justice Department Inspector General report released Monday. The report, which looked at the travel of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark Potter, head of ATF in Philadelphia, is headed to the mothership in Washington in January to become the agency’s assistant director/chief financial officer, Office of Management. Potter, who has been with ATF for more than 23 years, has headed up the Philly office for the past 7 1/2 years. At…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. Marshals assisted federal agents in a raid earlier this week at the suburban Washington home of a man who had retired from the National Archives, the website TBD reported. The raid, which resulted in the seizure of materials, came in wake of a report that cited “significant weaknesses”…
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 — Attorney General Eric Holder recognized a whole lot of Justice Department employees — 303 to be exact — at the 58th Annual Attorney General Awards Ceremony here on Wednesday. Additionally, 55 others outside the department were honored. The Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service—the department’s highest award— went to…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insulted — albeit inadvertently — the folks at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today by mentioning the FBI instead of their agency in remarks about the war on drugs. At a town hall meeting in Washington aired on MTV, the president told a group…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The polygraph issue is a messy one. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is asking that the judge in the upcoming Chandra Levy murder on Oct. 18 block two polygraph exams from being introduced into evidence, the Washington Post reports. A major problem, prosecutors contend, was that the polygraph exams weren’t…
