By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Few people were in a better position to see what happened to Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a Ferguson police officer, than his friend Dorian Johnson. But NBC News points out that the FBI never released Johnson’s witness testimony, despite a pledge to disclose all of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gang member’s decision to attack a witness testifying against him Monday was a deadly one. KSL.com reports that Siale Maveni Angilau was fatally shot by a U.S. Marshall after he charged a witness in federal court in Salt Lake City. “The defendant went after (a witness) … and when he engaged…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Patrick Nee literally wrote the book on mob life. And despite serious allegations that he was involved in drugs, guns and even helping bury a body, Nee remains free of jail. The Boston Globe reports that Nee is expected soon to testify in the murder and racketeering trial of reputed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Officials have not yet determined the cause of death of an alleged extortion victim of James “Whitey” Bulger who was found dead a day after learning he wouldn’t be testifying in the racketeering and murder trial of the suspected mob boss, The Boston Herald reports. An autopsy of Stephen M. “Stippo”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Stephen “Stippo” Rakes waited decades to testify against accused mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. Rakes will never get the chance because he was found dead in what is being described as a suspicious death, the Boston Globe reports. Rakes, who had accused Bulger of stealing ownership of his South Boston liquor store, was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Tennessee death row inmate has been denied access to FBI records that he says would overturn his 1998 conviction for the murder of a Memphis motel clerk, the Associated Press reports. A federal appeals court reaffirmed the FBI’s right to redact information under the Freedom of Information Act. The redacted records,…
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Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The day before Thanksgiving, Paul Bergrin, the ex-fed prosecutor who became a high-profile defense attorney representing rappers and gangbangers, had plenty to be thankful for. That’s because a federal judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked over whether Bergrin, 55, helped orchestrate a 2004 murder of an FBI witness…
