The decision in United States v. Burden, decided back in November of 2016, is not breaking news, but as I’ve seen several commentaries on it recently, I thought I might weigh in. The defendants in that case argued that they had…
ABOVE: Cobray M-11 Pistol Two geniuses in Georgia hit on what they must have imagined was the perfect crime: sell guns to foreigners anonymously on the dark web; get paid anonymously in Bitcoins; make a billion dollars; spend the rest of…
ABOVE: Alexander Fishenko Almost a year ago, I commented on the fate of a lowly sales clerk, Anastasia Diatlova, in the prosecution of Alexander Fishenko, his company Arc Electronics, and employees of Arc for exports of various items to Russia…
ABOVE: Kassim Tajideen Prosecutors love to add cute little nicknames to indictments. In their view, United States v. John Jones aka Vicious Johnny the Kneecapper sounds much, much better than plain old vanilla United States v. John Jones. So,…
ABOVE: Kolar Rahman Several law enforcement officials have said to me that what often makes their jobs so easy is that many criminals are several forks short of a kitchen utensil drawer. With that in mind, we bring you the…